

It now costs me 20% more to buy via the carrier, when I can get a credit card which will cost me 17% more over the same time assuming I pay off the extra £200 from buying the phone outright at £20/month. That's no longer the case - I now get the choice between buying the £800 phone separately, and paying £20/month for service, or buying the phone from my carrier for £600, and paying £40/month for the same service I'd get for £20/month on a SIM-only contract. In this scenario, by buying the phone from my carrier, I'd save £200. It used to be the case that I could get an £800 phone from my carrier for £600 and pay £25/month for 12 months service, or I could buy the £800 phone separately from my carrier and pay £25/month for 12 months service.

In the UK, the other thing that's appeared is cheap SIM-only contracts. Both companies have free and paid versions.Posted 12:32 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)

I recommend Macrium Reflect or Easeus Todo Backup. So having recent backups stored on an external drive only connected for creating system images is of paramount importance, as well as having an emergency boot USB drive for the backup software that you use. The interface between the chair and the keyboard is the prime culprit. Malware sometimes infects computers even with the best of security software.

The importance of that can not be understated. I have witnessed too many, lose too much, too very quickly! Too often, they have no backup strategy. Of course, should that occur, you could try disabling it as Flexx has suggested. I have never encountered any issues with it interfering with the BDTS installed on my computers and appropriately configured. Since Malwarebytes Premium has had a Web Protection component, I have had it activated.
