I noticed on ebay a guy is selling a 7 year Avast Pro code. When I questioned about his statement he said that if I bought it he would tell me what to do to get the 1 year license to a 7 year license.
“once you install the antivirus and the code there is on more step you have to do in the settings of the program will only be good for 1 year… if you buy i will explain this to you…thx”
WOW, a 7 year license for Avast Pro — but it must be a fake.
Well the longest legitimate Pro license is 3 years, so I would suggest reporting this to ebay and avast.
The only people that get ultimately caught out here is the buyer when avast does detect it as bogus, as most won’t be as fortunate as you in getting your money back.
With the arrival of version 5 in the not to distant future this is going to be harder to fake/hack or otherwise try to circumvent the pro license.
okay, Here is the plan JerryM just pretend nothings up and keep bidding on that 7 year license. We are triangulating the vectors of His Location and have launched a Predator Drone equipped with two Hellfire Missiles to eliminate this threat with extreme predjudice to Avast Profit Margin . Alwil will be sending some agents and a spotter to mark the target oops i mean the ebay seller to confirm the kill. As for you JerryM the guys in the black helicopters will be there shortly to debrief you and place you in Our witness protection. You will then be required to to destroy all personal ID, along with any family pictures and go to the Avast website, http://www.avast.com/eng/buy-avast-antivirus-professional-edition.html and immediately buy a legal license key and of course remember this is for your own safety or should I rather say your Computers safety .
They are expendable collateral damage one of those missiles is intended for them He, He , He, Hey I hear Alwil is hiring field agents hahahahahoh thats nice secret agent you got there
WOOOOOOOOO, that is scary. I just might have to settle on the one for three years with the CD for $20 + $2.50. Not a bad deal. It looks legit, and yes, I can get my money back if it is not.
good for you, just be careful with these ebay, youtube videos of free licenses for software, and all those keygens and crack sites out there they are riddled with nasty stuff.
I think this happened not only in e-Bay or ecommerce site only,
But some people which like littleman and always looking for a free or cracked one had posted in their blog too.
I already found some and share it to ALWIL Team (Christian) to banned them.
So i think another AV vendors have a same experienced like us too, so i wouldn’t strength to us.
If everybody found pirate or cracked license in website, just please informed to AlWIL Software.
I would not accept or buy something that was improper or illegal. However, I am going to let the AV companies police ebay. In general they do not seem to be interested.
your right the AV companies most likely have a legal department to handle these things. hmmm…why is that black SUV parked outside my house, OMG they found me i better delete that serial key from ebay Oh boy I hear footsteps …coming to my front door…they are pounding on my door and ringing the doorbell repeatly and demanding payment. OH YEAH RIGHT!!! its PIZZA HUT my pie is here. ;D
And no doubt in due course when updating avast virus signatures it will be detected, resulting in invalid license error and the inability to download updates.
As mentioned avast 5.0 will also change that too, so it will be short lived, much shorter than 2015
Not to mention some hacks if downloaded bring along unwelcome guests, it simply isn’t worth it when avast provides a free version.