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[jdrom]

I'm just curious as to how many people actually use SecureSpot for it's intended purpose of managing your network and protecting it.

Assuming it's the root cause to my port forwarding/virtual server settings not saving issue which many others also have, I'm hoping it's possible to suggest to D-Link (somehow?) to create two variants of firmware. One with SecureSpot and one with it totally removed yet proper functionality of everything that can be configured when logging into the router locally since I doubt they'll ever manage to get everything working together in 1 firmware.

[DCIFRTHS]

I wish it would be completely removed. I haven't upgraded my firmware because it's included.

[Sammydad1]

SecureSpot while in concept is an interesting idea.  In execution its licensing limitations are too "limiting" as compared to what is available to users on a "free" basis.

Granted maintaining individual PC's on a home network is more effort on my part than a properly functioning SecureSpot might be, but honestly, for the cost savings involved, its a no-brainer even with the extra efforts on my part.

Unless DLink has altered their licensing terms, the SecureSpot license (last I saw was going to be some $89 per year for maybe 5 PC support) doesn't do much for me with a family of 6 and some 8 or 9 pc's sprinkled around the house that are regularly used.  that means I would need at least 2 SecureSpot licenses to cover all my home systems; which by my math is simply too much money.  I do not think I am alone in these thoughts.

The larger question I suppose is whether SecureSpot even works well enough to give users a "peace-of-mind" as compared to managing individual PC's with a combination of "free" or even other Pay-based software ?  Anyone care to comment as the actual real-world usefulness of SecureSpot as implemented inside the DIR-655 FW ?


SD1

[HazardX]

Without more technical details of how it works (and what it does, other than in 'concept') I won't even touch the thing. It could cause network problems which (not knowing how it operates) I couldn't isolate or track down.

Though admittedly I haven't looked into it much, but I wouldn't ever expect a pay product to tell you in-detail how it implements its filtering.

[jdrom]

Unless DLink has altered their licensing terms, the SecureSpot license (last I saw was going to be some $89 per year for maybe 5 PC support) doesn't do much for me with a family of 6 and some 8 or 9 pc's sprinkled around the house that are regularly used.  that means I would need at least 2 SecureSpot licenses to cover all my home systems; which by my math is simply too much money.  I do not think I am alone in these thoughts.

The larger question I suppose is whether SecureSpot even works well enough to give users a "peace-of-mind" as compared to managing individual PC's with a combination of "free" or even other Pay-based software ?  Anyone care to comment as the actual real-world usefulness of SecureSpot as implemented inside the DIR-655 FW ?

Yeah exactly, you can get free antivirus, firewall and antispam programs that could be installed on all your PCs. Cost, $0. SecureSpot, $90. Even if you have to manage it a bit more, you're still saving money.

And I haven't really seen anything about SecureSpot. It seems to just be a randomly implemented beta feature. Nobody seems to use it (judging by my poll) and nobody has any idea how effective it is. Not sure if D-Link even knows since there doesn't really seem to be any credible information on it.

Without more technical details of how it works (and what it does, other than in 'concept') I won't even touch the thing. It could cause network problems which (not knowing how it operates) I couldn't isolate or track down.

Though admittedly I haven't looked into it much, but I wouldn't ever expect a pay product to tell you in-detail how it implements its filtering.

Yeah another one of my issues. To me, it's a massive security hole since now your router is open to be pretty much entirely configured over the Internet. I don't care how secure they claim their site to be, it's still hackable. Sadly I have to leave it enabled though or my port forwarding and virtual server settings will disappear.

[alien]

in the past i have tested securespot, but i don't wanna pay for it because they use mcafee. If they use NOD32 i will enable it agian and i'm willing to pay for it

[ewerner]

Seems like this feature screws up alot of stuff if its enabled

- website filtering
- certain appliances don't get on the internet anymore till its disabled...

keep it simple, my 2 cents.

EW

[dirkpitt]

This poll sheds an interesting light on the usage base for SecureSpot.  With the recent troubles encountered with their server going down I think that this poll may lend more weight to the argument for SecureSpot free firmware.

At this point only a single user has enabled SecureSpot. 

[Rooster]

Get this crap off my system. Get it off now.

It's malware. How else would you describe software that loaded and automatically activated with a firmware upgrade?

1: I had no idea it was even installed until I saw that my web browsing was being filtered. I quickly turned it off.

2: My ability to access websites was removed when it ended it's free trial and started to demand money.

3: Having turned the software off, it continues to turn itself on at random times screwing with the web browsing of everyone on the network and drastically effecting productivity of the entire office.

I've sent a nasty letter to D-link, I've spoken with the customer support @ bsecure and nobody has a solution to rid my system of this junk that I didn't ask for, didn't have the option not to install, and refuses to turn off.

I suppose the next step is to gather all the users of this device and others that are affected by the securespot issue and start a class action lawsuit.

[Longs]

I have securespot "enabled" in my router settings, meaning the radio button is checked, but i have not either trialed or subscribed to the service.   I did not have the button checked at one point, but i was having problems saving settings and someone had posted that enabling the button might affect the ability to save settings.

I had repeatedly flashed the router, etc. and finally seemed to be able to return to stability.  I was having a lot of issues that suddenly arose. Hardware A4, I started out on 1.32NA and upgraded to 1.33NA, and 1.33NA did not address my issues.

So I guess i have the button enabled as "a fix", not because the availability of securespot as a service has any value to me.

[chaat]

I would prefer to have a firmware without SecureSpot as well.

currently I'm using 1.11 firmware.

         Chuck H.

[Xymox]

For those who have children, you'll be able to relate.

I have a child and I use SecureSpot as a supplement for protecting him on the internet. Yes, his computer is in the living room in plain site. He utilizes the internet for the library, on-line educational sites, kids games, etc...  but kids will be kids, they're curious and Google auto corrects phonetic spellings.
If he tries to search for something inappropriate, it's blocked and I'm notified via text message.

Of my four computers in my house, my son's is the only one affected by any noticeable speed decrease, which isn't all that noticeable... why? Because, his computer is the only one that is being filtered by BSecure. The other computers are password protected so he can't log into them.

For those of you who don't want it... disable it and forget about it. It's that simple.

[dirkpitt]

For those of you who don't want it... disable it and forget about it. It's that simple.

If it were that simple I wouldn't have any issues with it.