PC Matic
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@scottalanmiller said in PC Matic:
@Breffni-Potter said in PC Matic:
KnowBe4 are involved with these guys?...Grief.
I didn't see that in there. I only see that they include some service from KnowBe4. Reselling something from them and them being involved isn't necessarily the same.
I suppose KnowB4 doesn't have know that these guys are reselling their services... but come on.. really?
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@Dashrender said in PC Matic:
@scottalanmiller said in PC Matic:
@Breffni-Potter said in PC Matic:
KnowBe4 are involved with these guys?...Grief.
I didn't see that in there. I only see that they include some service from KnowBe4. Reselling something from them and them being involved isn't necessarily the same.
I suppose KnowB4 doesn't have know that these guys are reselling their services... but come on.. really?
Even if they know, what does that mean? Best Buy resells HP laptops. It does not mean that HP stands behind them or the claims of the Geek Squad tech.
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Or, to make the most extreme possible example: just because you bottle water does not make you an official representative of God.
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@scottalanmiller said in PC Matic:
Or, to make the most extreme possible example: just because you bottle water does not make you an official representative of God.
LOL that's a pretty big leap!
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It popped into my head as an example, but I think that it illustrates it well. One party puts something on the market, another party leverages that in some way. Even if the one party knows about the other it doesn't mean that they endorse or even have the ability to stop it. But they easily don't know, either. Tons of possibilities.
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@scottalanmiller said in PC Matic:
Just looking at their website, that site has "scam" written all over it. No way that that is something you'd want to install.
Coincidentally, I recently happened across this discussion over at BleepingComputer. So, while it looks like a scam, smells like a scam and even has a scammy-sounding name, it maybe isn't a scam. That said, scam or not, it's certainly not a product I'd use.
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@Brett-at-ioSafe said in PC Matic:
@scottalanmiller said in PC Matic:
Just looking at their website, that site has "scam" written all over it. No way that that is something you'd want to install.
Coincidentally, I recently happened across this discussion over at BleepingComputer. So, while it looks like a scam, smells like a scam and even has a scammy-sounding name, it maybe isn't a scam. That said, scam or not, it's certainly not a product I'd use.
Or maybe they are getting paid off?
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@Brett-at-ioSafe said in PC Matic:
@scottalanmiller said in PC Matic:
Just looking at their website, that site has "scam" written all over it. No way that that is something you'd want to install.
Coincidentally, I recently happened across this discussion over at BleepingComputer. So, while it looks like a scam, smells like a scam and even has a scammy-sounding name, it maybe isn't a scam. That said, scam or not, it's certainly not a product I'd use.
Further down the thread it appears to be show to be unequivocally a scam.
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@Brett-at-ioSafe said in PC Matic:
@scottalanmiller said in PC Matic:
Just looking at their website, that site has "scam" written all over it. No way that that is something you'd want to install.
Coincidentally, I recently happened across this discussion over at BleepingComputer. So, while it looks like a scam, smells like a scam and even has a scammy-sounding name, it maybe isn't a scam. That said, scam or not, it's certainly not a product I'd use.
Or maybe they are getting paid off?
They wouldn't need to be, right? Aren't these the same guys that think "cleaning" a customer's computer is acceptable after an infection? These are the guys that claim that they can, without fail, get a machine cleaned so that you don't have to worry about reinstalling.
I avoid that site since I learned about it. It, too, is a scam in my book. Those kinds of claims are made to support malware by making consumers think that things are safe that are not, just like the PC Matic software does. Two of a kind in that regard.
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@scottalanmiller As I said, it certainly isn't a product I'd use. "Maximizes internet connection speeds." Yeah, right.
