Kaspersky’s Free Giveaway Not For Everyone
Posted By Keith Dsouza On October 22, 2009 @ 9:39 am In Annoyances | 5 Comments
We have been reporting for the past week on the various giveaways [1] for free antivirus [2] from reputed companies like Panda [3] and Kaspersky [4]. Looks like only one of them is keeping true to their original deal.
We tested that you could download a free copy of Panda Internet Security 2010 [3], however don’t expect to be able to download Kaspersky for FREE. The deal was a totally for Windows 7 [5] Launch party attendees dud and a dumb marketing idea. Only users who attended someone’s Windows 7 [6] launch party can download a free copy. Duh.
Unless and until you have the email address of the host of some obscure party, you will not be able to download the so called FREE edition of Kaspersky.
And, if you think you can game the system and enter any email address as the host? Take a look at the above message, to see the end result. This is a definite piss off for several thousand users who have been anticipating to download the security software from Kaspersky.
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[1] giveaways: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/giveaways
[2] free antivirus: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/free-antivirus
[3] Panda: http://techie-buzz.com/giveaways/free-license-panda-internet-security-2010.html
[4] Kaspersky: http://techie-buzz.com/giveaways/download-kaspersky-internet-security-2010-free.html
[5] Windows 7: http://goo.gl/EDxy
[6] Windows 7: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/windows-7
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