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Hello, I noticed recently a Youtube by Frooglesim indicating that FSXGenius had been, it looks like, scamming people out of money offering to build them PCs and never fulfilling after receiving money. I cannot know whether this is true or not. Then, there was recently the A380 add-on for sale scam, which is documented here and elsewhere in the Flightsim Community. I have to disable my Norton Antivirus to successfully download and install anything with a Flight1 wrapper. I am told this is not a risk, but I recently discovered one of those wrappers is identified by Norton Power Eraser as containing a rootkit. It was the only file/executable out of literally hundreds of thousands on my system identified as such. I have NO other source of online digital software that requires this kind of stripping-naked of my system for the sake of running an executable. It is bad practice, and I am no longer going to do it. The Flight1 validation system even requires you to turn off your firewall for it to run. Their problem, not mine, nor anyone else's. There's an increasing tendency to offer add-ons as "alphas" or "open betas" with promises for completion. There was gossip towards the end of 2013 -- perhaps not gossip, but truth -- about IRIS Simulations failing to fulfill payments to developers working for them. A company split off from them, Metal2Mesh.com, offers an "avionics upgrade" for $15 to the IRIS F15 -- which is real -- but the site is plastered with Coming Soon references to more projects than even an ORBX or Carenado could plan and handle at once, or over three years, even, for DCS, FSX, etc. Along with a Mirage 2000C "Open Beta." Metal2Mesh has also said they'll be completing their own F15. We shall see. I am simply NOT going to make any further purchases from any company that has any odor of shady practices, no matter what anyone says online to defend them. If projects are released unfinished, incomplete, buggy, requiring breaking fundamental principles of software and network security to operate..... they're never going to see me. If developers are going to make promises that are on the face of them unrealistic and wildly ambitious..... ditto. Enough of us know how long it really takes to _complete_ something that we're not going to be suckered into buying unfinished software that never gets completed. I suggest you do the same. I am willing to be generous, and give people the benefit of the doubt, but the internet is chock-full of scams, and they seem to be proliferating in the small world of flight simulation. People and companies should recognize this damages everyone's business. If you can't abide by the fundamental principles of making realistic release promises, guaranteeing your software works with standard virus and internet protection in place (like the rest of the world).... you should be out of customers, and soon, no matter how harsh that sounds. I know it's a tough business to be in and the risks and work are high, the rewards are small. But many of the people spending money on your work -- who have far less than I do -- are being damaged by shady practices, and we cannot and must not tolerate that. Thanks for listening. Steven