License Giveaway - Prizes Drawn!

I got a free license for Drive Backup Pro. Thanks to Wilders and Paragon for their support.

 

Same here, thank you Wilders and Paragon.

 

why exactly on the ESET license activation site would they require me to fill in my address, ZIP, AND phone number just to activate the license...

 

I have the exact same question for pretty much every vendor of digital products or services

ESS key received and sofware installed!

I have to repeat myself once more: Thanks for this great gift and forums to Paul Wilders, Wilders Moderators, Security Experts, Forum Contributers (Posters), Participating Vendors

Special Thanks to LowWaterMark and Rmuffler (Eset Moderator) for their swift and effecient organisation and subliminal support!

 

ive gotten licenses from many giveaways before and almost never do they need my address, ZIP AND phone number... it feels strange to need to ask for all that info...

 

Seems to be a trend these days They want your future business - I guarantee it. Brace yourselves for the forthcoming email solicitations.

 

I have installed Paragon Drive Backup 10 Pro Edition on my son's computer which I'm not familiar with. Unlocked the program with the prize key, and proceeded to backup his system without reading the instructions. I've just restored successfully the first image as a test.

Bottom line: Paragon works out of the box perfectly, thank you Paragon! And thanks again to the Wilders Administration for making so many members happy.

 

Paragon installed and activated with no problems.
Thanks again, Wilders.
Hugger

 

Yesterday I activated ESET nod, and today my ESET say me that license has expire. 01.01.1970.
ANd if I want to download eset program from eset page, when put the name and password, say this is incorect.

 

Why I don't know, but it's Eset, so why be bothered with it? Btw, they'd get my birthcertificate if they would make Nod32 fully compatible with XP("firewallissue") .

 

Thanks Wilders and Malwarebytes!

 

well they really need to come up with another way of activating serials... cuz asking for all that information is just ridiculous. but looks like they will be getting a bunch of randomly typed numbers and letters in those fields from me.

 

Good question on privacy. You could try asking Eset or reviewing their EULA but my bet is you won't like their answer(s) if you even get one.

There are ways around all this but they depend on how honest you want to be. You can give them a valid address and phone number and zip/postal code to them to make them happy just enusre it isn't yours! (give them the white house! ).

But on a serious note some of these fields are mandatory but does eset validate of the syntax provided by the user? Say you enter (999) 777-1111, would that pass muster? These vendors are not always as forthright as we want on what they do with our private data so I'm not as forthright either when I clone in data. It is a personal choice what to provide them.

I also load my FW with data like name/postal/address and block packets outgoing that contain that data. I even load in the license numbers you would be surprised how many vendors ask for that data IN OPEN TEXT when you update.

I know SAS was one of them.

 

Thanks guys and thanks for a great forum with a lot of knowledgeable people.

 

Won: Paragon Disk Backup & Malware Bytes Pro

 

PREVX licence is working fine with Vipre. Thank you very much.

 

Quick question about Windows 7 copies: is it a 32-bit install disk? Or two disks for both 32 and 64-bit versions?

 

The ESET Smart Security license I won required manual activation because I live outside North America and ESET have wrongly activated the license as NOD32 only. I have informed an ESET moderator by PM and am currently waiting for ESET to rectify the error, so no joy installing and using ESS yet.

It looks like the ESET licensing system isn't as straightforward as it could be and I'm hoping the ESS license will start from when ESET activate it, not from when the NOD32 license was activated in error. I'm glad I didn't purchase ESS and have this happen though - at least I'm not out of pocket.

 

Yes, got it. Thanks for your assistance.

 

LowWaterMark, can you confirm this?
Thanks.