Does anyone know if it's safe? It's the cheapest place I can find for programming software on specific older Kenwood models (pre-narrowbanding act).
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Buying Kenwood Programming Software from EBay
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paulears
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The idiots who do dodgy stuff with software tend to concentrate on software the masses want. Ive never heard of any malicious radio programming software. I have normal virus protection but it commonly identifies radio programming software as suspect, because it has write functions. It quarantines them, checks and then releases them. The only snag you have is that ebay software is hit and miss. Kenwood with the normal and dealer codes and the specivity to certain radios means you can end up with perfect software your radio refuses to respond to. If its cheap, its a gamble.
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The older stuff for legacy radios can be found but one has to search. I wouldn't pay for pirated software that all someone did is download it and burn to a CD. As mentioned, you never know what other gems might be lurking.
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