Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Forget about Shaw Secure

It seems that Shaw is once again on the prowl to get people to sign up to their Shaw Secure plan which recently went through some changes in security.  As I posted back in 2006, nothing has changed and no, you DO NOT want this service.  All it does is give you a false sense of security since you are on their network you should already have your own antivirus software installed and moving to their 'secure' network only means you are leaving it up to their servers to confirm your computer's security but what about when you unplug from the internet and plug in your friends USB flash drive that is riddled with viruses? Your computer doesn't have any security since you have uninstalled it in order to use the Shaw Secure system. Do yourself a favour and treat this latest email from Shaw as nothing more then another SPAM message and you can go a step further by logging in to your account and disabling further marketing messages.