I got an email today from Joseph asking me about NodEnabler and NodLogin. Frankly speaking, I have no idea what are they because I’ve never used ESET products until recently when I found 2 methods to legally get free NOD32 username and passwords. Out of curiosity, I checked out both of the tools and found that it is able to automatically apply licenses on NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security without patching any files. The best part is the username and password that are being used are real trial licenses. Basically NodEnabler and NodLogin are similar to Kaspersky Key Finder. It connects to a website that contains a database of usable license and then automatically apply it to your registry.

Unlike Kaspersky and other antivirus software where it only allows you to activate the trial license once and after that it only accepts commercial paid license. ESET NOD32 Antivirus and Smart Security works differently. Although ESET allows you to apply for a normal 30 days trial license to use it on the installed ESET products, when it expires, you can use another email to re-apply for another 30 day trial license and continue using ESET products with the new username and password. If you purchase a commercial 1 year license, you will also get a set of username and password that is valid for 1 year. NOD32 Antivirus or ESET Smart Security users are really lucky because the licensing system used by ESET are very very lenient.

Since NodEnabler and NodLogin does the same, have you ever wondered which one works better? Here’s my simple research on both of these tools.


I will not go into too detail on the sites that it connects to grab the licenses. If you’ve read my article on Kaspersky Key Finder, you should know what tool to use to find out where it connects to.

The latest version of NodLogin is v9.7. It is created by UlisesSoft. NodLogin is able to detect whether NOD32 Antivirus or ESET Smart Security installed on your system, then grabs a list of working username and passwords from his own website at ulisessoft.info and automatically insert it to the ESET product via registry. When scanned with 37 types of antivirus, 18 of them including NOD32 itself detects NodLogin as a Autoit threat.

As for NodEnabler, the latest version is 2.81 and it is created by Damian666 and Nodster under The Damned Crew nick. It is also able to detect whether NOD32 Antivirus or ESET Smart Security is installed on your system, and then connects to a well known 3rd party website called nod321 that is updated daily with fresh username and password. It grabs the username and password, verifies them and auto insert it to the installed ESET product via registry. When scanned with 37 types of antivirus, only 4 antivirus detects NodEnabler as a threat. Installation is simple, just run the setup and click Just Do It! button.

To me, both works perfectly but if you ask me which is better, I’d say NodEnabler because it doesn’t rely on a self maintained NOD32 username and password database. If one day the creator of NodEnabler decides to stop this project, this tool could still work if NOD321 website is still around and ESET software still reads the username and password from the same registry location. As for NodLogin, it connects to its own server which needs to be manually updated and maintained by UlisesSoft. I’ve checked the database that is used by UlisesSoft and the username & password data are dated 9 days ago. If the database is not updated, NodLogin will only download old and expired NOD32 username and password.

There you have it Joseph, my reviews on NodEnabler and NodLogin. The original untouched NodEnabler or NodEnabler is not a threat and doesn’t damage your computer IF you got it from the right source.