Locked: Free Kaspersky Security Gamer Edition ($69) with Microsoft Office Home and Student purchase

Kaspersky is not an approved product by my organization

If you have to pay for MS office then already it’s no deals

TransporterSD wrote: ↑ Kaspersky is not an approved product by my organization

I’m curious. What your organization says about Bitdefender ?

Desperadude wrote: ↑ If you have to pay for MS office then already it’s no deals

I dont remember the last time I used Office at home...
Besides, its not only 2Live Crew who's banned in the USA

TransporterSD wrote: ↑ Kaspersky is not an approved product by my organization

Ok. Care to explain why? I think I know why, but this is a vague statement.

Desperadude wrote: ↑ I’m curious. What your organization says about Bitdefender ?

Only Norton.

Kevcorm wrote: ↑ Ok. Care to explain why? I think I know why, but this is a vague statement.

It's tied to former KGB,/FSB

TransporterSD wrote: ↑ It's tied to former KGB,/FSB

Symantec/Norton History is littered with all sorts of other 3 letter agencies too.

Just switch to Linux.

Your internet provider usually provides free anti-virus. At least I know Shaw provides free Mcfee license

TransporterSD wrote: ↑ It's tied to former KGB,/FSB

So you prefer the NSA then?

TransporterSD wrote: ↑ Only Norton.

OMG....

Slightly off topic probably, but is it just me or is it ridiculous that there's a "Gamer version" tag for many products now that just inflates the price for no reason like when you order a cake and then say "oh.. it's for a wedding"

TransporterSD wrote: ↑Kaspersky is not an approved product by my organization

Desperadude wrote: ↑ I’m curious. What your organization says about Bitdefender ?

TransporterSD wrote: ↑ Only Norton.

And now I am curious what's your organization? Why should we listen to you?

Idlehands wrote: ↑ Slightly off topic probably, but is it just me or is it ridiculous that there's a "Gamer version" tag for many products now that just inflates the price for no reason like when you order a cake and then say "oh.. it's for a wedding"

We're Canadians, we should be used to being taxed up the wazoo. "Gamer version" is an excuse for adding a gamer tax onto the product just like some brands of electronics automatically infer quality and luxury to add a luxury tax onto the price tag. Or like this example of the "wedding tax", which CBC Marketplace did a show on where it's essentially the same product, but its purpose is different. This is the power of suggestion. Unless the product is demonstrably superior compared to the vanilla/consumer version to deserve the gamer label, it's generally not worth it to buy into the hype of a "gamer edition/version".... unless it's on a fire sale, and in that case, it's hard to say no to saving money...

TransporterSD wrote: ↑ It's tied to former KGB,/FSB

This is the whole story, not what you might think: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/ ... ty-1089131

Idlehands wrote: ↑Slightly off topic probably, but is it just me or is it ridiculous that there's a "Gamer version" tag for many products now that just inflates the price for no reason like when you order a cake and then say "oh.. it's for a wedding"

LesDeals wrote: ↑ We're Canadians, we should be used to being taxed up the wazoo. "Gamer version" is an excuse for adding a gamer tax onto the product just like some brands of electronics automatically infer quality and luxury to add a luxury tax onto the price tag. This is the power of suggestion. Unless the product is demonstrably superior compared to the vanilla/consumer version to deserve the gamer label, it's generally not worth it to buy into the hype of a "gamer edition/version".... unless it's on a fire sale, and in that case, it's hard to say no to saving money...

But the OP said it's free.

alpovs wrote: ↑ But the OP said it's free.

That's why I said slightly off topic. But the fact remains that the perceived value ($69) is probably less than it should be. Many times you see something with a "Designed for Gamers" label slapped on you can guarantee there's an unwarranted markup there.

Speaking of - for security, I'm not sure there's any difference required for gamers really. I mean for the average user or gamer you should expect the same level of security. Probably there's some ease of access for firewall/port settings or prioritized game traffic, but still - the vulnerability coverage and such shouldn't be any different.

TransporterSD wrote: ↑ It's tied to former KGB,/FSB

None of that was ever proven.

"Allegations that Kaspersky is an arm of the Russian intelligence services have quieted since 2018. None of the claims have been proven and we have yet to see convincing evidence of backdoors or intentional security holes in Kaspersky products. Although Kaspersky's headquarters are still in Moscow, it has moved some online infrastructure to Switzerland."

https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/kaspersky

And I tend to believe Tom's (Hardware) Guide that I've been reading since like '99 just a tiny bit more than a random RDFer without any concrete proof.

Thank you OP, it's a nice deal indeed, upvoted

I think with Kaspersky it's more of a case that, given that state of things in Russia, it could go bad very quickly.

It's like Chinese networking and IoT devices; you don't know for sure they they're compromised, but prudence suggests you avoid them anyway.