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Internet Security Renewal - Pricing?

I'm hoping someone can explain this to me.

I currently subscribe to McAfee Internet Security Suite v 8.0. If I login and and try to update my subscription the price is £39.99.

If I just type McAfee into Google I am immediately taken to a page that appears to be selling the same thing - on their own site - for £24.99.

If I type McAfee Internet Security Suite into Froogle I get a vast array of prices starting at £4.86!!! Some say they are 2007 versions, some 2006 but all seem to have a 1 year subscription.

I just don't understand if they are all the same thing or if I am being stupid trying to go for a cheaper option. I am completely non-technical so don't know what to look for. I have read the stuff about how you can get all this fro free but to be honest for the sake of a couple of pounds per month for a friendly easy to understand system I am happy to pay.

So can anyone advise which one I should go for and what the differences are? And while you're on why it is that McAfee appear to value it's exisiting customers so little?

Cheers!

Comments

  • Little_John
    Little_John Posts: 4,033 Forumite
    Dont buy the upgrade its a rip off.

    buy a new version remove the existing version and install the new one. version 2007 no longer requires the registration that was needed for the older versions, you just get 1 year of updates from the date of install.
  • Why not just get the free ones recommended by Martin?

    Best
    Troubleatmill
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