My mother-in-law alerted to me  something Symantec was offering in the latest version of the Norton Security Suite — Download Insurance. What?  Huh?  Yes,  Download Insurance.  For $9.95 Symantec will give you the opportunity to download the software that you originally bought from them for up to one year.  Without the insurance, they will only let you download the software that you paid for only 60 days.

Note that you don’t pay $9.95 when you need to download it — you pay $9.95 up front and maybe you will need it. Or maybe you won’t.

What a rip-off!  Symantec should let you download it as long as that version is current — not just 60 days.  It really costs them little money to store a file on a server these days.

So I’ll tell you how you can keep your software available for a year — or longer — for a lot less money than $9.95.  Just burn it onto a well-labeled CD and put it in a safe place.  If you think you will lose it, then setup a free account at DropBox and upload your file there.

Please, don’t let Symantec still your money!