What is shareware?
Shareware is software that you ‘Try before you buy it’. Some shareware has no price, instead the author may give it away free (freeware) or ask for a “donation” of money.But most shareware has a price, and the free trial ends after (1) so many uses or (2) or so many days or(3) has some features crippled or (4) some combination of 1, 2 and 3. In addition there may be demo shareware which demonstrates some of the features of the software but demo software is not shareware unless you can add a “key” (you pay for the key) and activate the demo to a full version.I use shareware more than I use conventional software. But like regular software shareware has its problems, and can even have problems that on’t exist in conventional software.
Problems with shareware:Some shareware titles contain ads, adware, spyware and other noxious software. If you are going to use shareware you need to have on your computer working and updated: (1) antivirus (paid versions such as one of the following: Norton Antivirus, PC-Cillin, McCafee, Computer Associates, Panda work best, (2) anti adware/anti spyware/ anti worm software such as Microsoft’s free antispyware.Other problems include the software not being fully windows compliant and causing bugs on your computers performance, the author retiring (giving up and failing to support the product), plus all the ordinary problems you can have with any software such as difficulty removing the software when you want to remove it.Visit the shareware author’s website and see if the author states there is no adware, etc. in the software.
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