I bet many people were very excited last week because Windows 7 was officially launched plus Kaspersky and PandaSecurity joined in by giving away free license. PandaSecurity was very generous in giving 1 year Panda Internet Security 2010 to everyone including those are not from the United States although it stated that this offer is only for people from US but for as Kaspersky, it is strictly for attendees and hosts of Windows 7 launch parties. To redeem the free 1 year Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 license, all they need is a valid host email address and it’s easy guessing or even googling the host’s email address from their username.
Since this promotion is very limited (15 license codes are available for each launch party and 1 code per attendee), I did post any tricks on the blog or forum on how to get the codes nor support the actions of people who got the codes illegally. I personally felt that it’s not right. Anyway, Kaspersky stepped up by deactivating fraudulently obtained codes and the attendees will have to get the free KIS 2010 license from the host.
Actually I wanted to post a method which Björn Söderberg shared with me 3 days ago where everyone is able to request for a 6 months KIS 2010 key. I was out of town and has scheduled to post it today but unfortunately it has already started circulating yesterday night and causing the offer to close. I believe some of you probably stay up because of what I said yesterday, so now I will instead give out 100 KIS 2010 product key valid for 6 months to the first 100 people who write a comment with the condition of ONLY ONE REQUEST PER PERSON.
Although the method below no longer works, but I will still share it with you in case if it ever re-opens again. It is working now!
1. Visit http://www.pctidningen.se/kaspersky
2. Enter your email address at the “E-postadress:” box.
3. Type in the correct CAPTCHA code. Some of the characters are Swedish characters. You can use this online swedish keyboard to create the letters, then copy and paste it to the box.
4. Click the Skicka button. The KIS 2010 serial number will appear and will also be sent to your email address. Yes, it’s THAT SIMPLE!
This offer was way too easy without any restriction at all. You can use any email address whether it’s valid or not as long as it is an email format. It doesn’t check your IP address nor drop a browser cookie to recognize that you’ve requested for a free KIS 2010 key. True enough, this offer only lasted 1-2 hours.
Note: The offer page says that the license is for Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, it can also be used on the latest Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. Thanks anyway to Björn Söderberg and Hogge for sharing this tip with me! As for the FILEminimizer Pictures, I’ve already closed the comments and will start to randomly select the 200 winners.
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UPDATE: The promotion has reopen! You will need to type in the correct CAPTCHA code but there are some Swedish characters. You can use this online swedish keyboard to type the letters, then copy and paste it to the CAPTCHA box. Good luck!
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