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Trend Micro boycott Posted By Chris, February 12, 2008 - 1 Comments

ClamAV, an open source anti-virus program for email scanning is a great product, we use it ourselves to filter out the viruses we receive on our personal email accounts. Unfortunately Trend Micro believe they own the patent regarding a technology that’s been in use for many years by many companies, and have now decided to file suit against Barracuda Networks. » read more

Do you work from home Posted By Chris, January 29, 2008 - 5 Comments

One of the benefits of working at Firetrust is being able to work from home.   Virtually all of our work is computer based and with broadband now so freely available, that allows us to take our work home with us.  As a result some of the staff here has chosen to work from home full time, others remain in the office, and there are those like me who split the time between both.     The benefits are really a success, those with younger children can be stay at home dads and we have those with older children who can work from home during school holidays  We also have those who enjoy viewing » read more

No we don't hate women Posted By Chris, January 21, 2008 - 10 Comments

Recently we received this email.


I noticed today while downloading the update (thanks very much) that all the satisfied customers whose comments are reported appear to be men. And I was put off by one man's praise of your product by saying it could even be used by his "technophobe girlfriend." Not all females are technophobes, not all men are savvy about technical questions.
I think you would do your marketing a service by taking a look at your website with a pair of gender glasses, to catch the misogyny and eliminate
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