If you’re interested in trying out ESET’s security software, you can go to ESET’s official website and you’ll find that there are 2 versions of installer for their products. They have the trial version where you can use 30 days free and can be directly download by clicking on the link. Then they have commercial download link where you’ll have to login with a valid username and password in order to download. The commercial version is for customers that has purchased a license to download and install. I’ve never personally tested the trial version of ESET’s product but I got reports that they have the same restriction as Kaspersky where you can only activate the trial ONCE.

There is another way of evaluating ESET’s product for 30 days, or even sometimes up to 90 days when they have promotions by using the commercial installer, not the trial ones. The best part is when the username and password has expired after 30 days period, it is possible request for another new username and password using a different email address! I will show you where to request for a valid ESET username and password to download the commercial version of ESET software.

There are actually tons of official locale ESET website that you can use to generate free trial commercial username and password BUT they all share the same database. If you try to enter the same email on a different official ESET website, it will tell you that the email you have entered has already been registered. The trick here is to always use a different email address.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus:
http://mercuryservices.eset.ie/evaluate/evaluate.php?evaloption=EAV

ESET Smart Security:
http://mercuryservices.eset.ie/evaluate/evaluate.php?evaloption=ESS

ESET Mobile Antivirus:
http://www.eset.ie/download/free_trial_download_ema.php

All you need to do is to fill up the form and make sure you use a valid email address that you can check. After submitting the forum, check your email. Once you got the username and password, you can head on to this official ESET download page and choose the commercial version software that you want to download.

I’ve tried installing the trial version and it is slightly different than the full commercial version. The trial version doesn’t require username and password to update but it has a 30 days time limit. You can also “upgrade” to the commercial version if you have a valid username and password. If I am not wrong, you can continue updating ESET as long as you have a valid username and password for the specific product. That’s how NodEnabler and NodLogin keeps your product licensed by finding a valid trial username and password on the internet and automatically insert it to the program.

On the article that I posted two days ago, I made a mistake saying that the username and password works on ESET Smart Security, ESET NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Mobile Antivirus. It actually only works on ESET NOD32 Antivirus. I’ve wrongly configured NOD32 Update Viewer and the color confuses me as I find it hard to differentiate the color when the letters are very small. After zooming in, I can now see the difference. By the way, the offer is no longer available. I hope I’ve made it up by showing you how to download the full commercial version of ESET Smart Security, NOD32 and Mobile Antivirus.

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