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PGP Desktop Email

PGP security/encryption for IM, email, virtual disks.

Version:  9.10

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Fed Up

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Contributed by: makalu Monday, August 01 2005 @ 11:46 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

I'm fed up with both the PGP product and the organization. Apart from similar experience to those comments here, PGP 9 now won't let you select a group of files, and encrypt them all at once -- individually. It will create a .zip file containing all the selected files. Unless you've discovered a very serious bug, you'll never hear from the company's support staff.

Finally, they make you jump through hoops to even download the product. Click on the above download link, and you'll have to first fill out a long form requiring all sorts of personal information (I thought PGP was about privacy?!?) in order to download the DEMO version, then you're told you'll get an email with further instructions and your temporary key. WHY IN THE WORLD do they not simply have a place where EXISTING users can go fetch the latest software?!   

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4 comments |

Fed Up - BiG77

The way to download the latest product is to open the PGP application and select "Check For updates" from the PGP menu. Not that support isn't poor, but that part is simple, at least.

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Tuesday, August 02 2005 @ 12:08 AM PDT


Fed Up - stoneyb

Try "Check for Updates" in the "PGP" menu of PGP Desktop. DL's the update without any hassle.

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Tuesday, August 02 2005 @ 07:53 AM PDT


Fed Up - R. Lynn Rardin

The latest full version of 9.0.x is _supposed_ to be available to those who already purchased a license at the download link on the order confirmation. But that's not yet the case. Clicking on the download link currently gets me a copy of 9.0.1. I recall that it took a few days for the download link to point to the 9.0.1 installer when that version went final.

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Tuesday, August 02 2005 @ 10:17 AM PDT


Fed Up - Calroth

I didn't even have to do the "Check For Updates" thing. I just opened up PGP today and it downloaded the disk image and mounted it, ready to install. How simple is that.

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Wednesday, August 17 2005 @ 01:37 AM PDT