What is the price? ... the site doesn't have any pricing info! =20

Rich

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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Antonio Benci
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 12:17 AM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [EE] I Got burned by PSpice

Have a look at:

http://www.simetrix.co.uk/site/index.html

and try the demo version. My students use it for their circuit analysis wor=
k
in 3rd year labs.

Regards,

Antonio Benci.

On 1/11/2013 3:24 AM, Lindy Mayfield wrote:
> I did a bad thing, and I cannot believe how stupid I was.
>
> I have Introductory Circuit Analysis by Robert L Boylestad, 11th edition,
and highly recommended by some in this group.  It is one of the best I've
seen and read, and I very highly recommend it, too.
>
> In it he uses PSpice software in some of his examples.  Now, this edition
is from I think 2007.
>
> So I found PSpice Student 9.1 Student version from softronic (google will
bring it first), thinking that my PC is heavily protected by up-to-date
virus/etc software, and I got sucked in.  Big time.
>
> When it installed I saw browsers opening up that I didn't ask for, and I
knew I had been screwed.  It changed my home pages for my browsers and also
inserted MyWebSearch as default search engines, and more.  It took me about
an hour or so to get rid of it all.  Needless to say, I was torqued off big
time.
>
> Needless to say that when I deleted softronic crap it left the malware,
and all that.  And when I installed it, I said no to any questions it asked
about additional software.
>
> Rant over: Now my question.  Obviously PSpice is out, but is there an
alternative to it?  Or perhaps an "honest" version that I could trust?  Has
anyone used it?  Or gotten suckered in like me?
>
> Thanks!
> Lindy
>
>
>


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