license question: accessing work from home computer with home license

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I would like to know if connecting to a corporate network from home, on a user-owned (not company-owned) computer, turns the home computer in a computer used for commericial purposes.

In other words, I would like to use the free home-use license on my computer however I might also wish to connect that computer to work via a VPN tunnel. The computer remains at home and privately owned.

Does that violate the license?

Thanks,
Keith

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I would have though it would have been OK, but if you then subsequently did work related tasks I would have thought that would then be considered commercial purposes.

What would happen if you didn’t have a home computer would the company provide one if it were essential to connect. If so perhaps they might pay for a pro license for you ;D.

These are my own thoughts as an avast Home user and not that of Alwil software.

See Define commercial in the sense of non-commercial use of avast! Home Edition?

"Commercial", using our definition, would define ANY work done for a commercial aim (money is not the issue, nor is profit so, for instance, non-profit charity work would be commercial in nature.)

Hobbies would be considered home use; except where such hobby is running a commercial business (again, money and profit are not relevant to the definition.)

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It’s a bit tricky for me.

I can access any computer in any of our companies offices from any internet connected PC.
Say I’m at my mother’s place. She has avast! Home. In theory, should I uninstall avast! (and maybe install PC Tools or Comodo) before I connect?
I “confess” that I don’t. :o ;D

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If we are polling users here for this then I would say:

  1. Accessing the company network by VPN in itself does not violate the agreement. You can use that at a hotspot (hotel/airport/cafe etc) and the VPN protects you for surfing the web for personal reasons.
  2. If you do any business/company related work or access any company documents or do surfing/searches for work on this computer, you need the pro version.

We ask employees to keep personal work off the company computers and require our employees not to use personal computers for accessing company work - keep them separate and it minimizes this type of confusion.

BTW: Why pull up this 1.5 yr old thread-additional clarification needed? :slight_smile:

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Good point. Don’t remember how it got my attention. I didn’t notice the date 'til now.