Sep 20, 2001 07:34 PM
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After the much hyped convergence & bandwidth thing I decide to buy the now Internet account. But what followed is a story full of trauma, which I will explain step by step. It was one fine evening when I bought the NOW rapid account .I was very happy to buy it as it cost me Rs 199 but I got much more than it as two cassettes that of Zubeidaa & Indipop2 Now that’s what I call music worth Rs 130 came for free & that was not it 15 days of free surfing excited me like anything. I thought now is the best thing to have happened to me. But the problem started as soon as I played the installation CD on the comp. It took a little time in the first time when it got played I was not aware for quiet some time as to what was happening to my comp.
Well it took a little time bcos after playing that CD an RCO file got installed in my Hard disk. Now for those who don’t know it I will explain it. By virtue of this software programme which gets installed in your hard disk when you play the installation CD the engineers at the NOW isp are able to monitor your activities while you are online. They even have access to whatever stored files or documents you have stored on your computer thus meaning they have full access to your computer.
Well I am an engineer so I could detect it but think about those who do not even know that they are being watched & monitored while online.
Any ways this is just the start when I tried to remove the programme it took a lot of effort on my part because it is such that you cannot delete it as the access to that programme is denied.
THAT’S REAL CHEAP: AINT IT?
Any way the story is not finished. Their big claims of NEED MORE WIDTH fell flat on their face when I went online. The speed was really slow well actually terribly slow. This is not the end of the story it takes a hell of time to connect to NOW & if you manage to get connected there are lots of disconnections so much so that after only 2 days I bought myself another account of different ISP.
