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Free 6 Months ESET NOD32 v4 cfg.xml License by PCGamesHardware

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Nov
11
2009
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Ever since Windows 7 was officially released, many antivirus company such as Kaspersky, Panda, ZoneAlarm, IObit, F-Secure and a-squared was fighting to give out free license subscription for a limited time because they know that Windows 7 is such a huge success and many users would be on the look out to find an antivirus that can run on Windows 7. Yesterday I got to know about another promotion for ESET NOD32 v4 by PCGamesHardware which gives a free 6 months subscription from ivan_baroveca in forum. If you don’t know what is ESET NOD32, it is an antivirus software package made by the Slovak company ESET and is commonly known as NOD32. If you check out this comparison page, it shows that ESET wins in terms of detection, performance and awards when compared to Norton, F-Secure, Kaspersky, McAfee and AVG.

All PCGamesHardware provided was a ZIP file to download which contains a cfg.xml file. As far as I know, ESET products are activated based on username and password. Every subscriber has their own unique username and password that can be used to download the installers and also to obtain the latest ESET virus definition. So I opened the XML file with notepad, took a quick look and found the username in clear text but the password is encrypted. Normally NOD32 username would start with EAV- followed by 8 random numbers and Smart Security with ESS-.
decrypt ESET XML password
Continue reading on how to license ESET NOD32 v4 with the cfg.xml file provided by PCGamesHardware.


At first I didn’t know what to do with the XML file but after a while I found out that ESET supports importing and exporting settings via XML file. Just follow the few simple steps on how to get your free 6 months ESET NOD32 license.

If this is you don’t have ESET NOD32 installed on your computer:
1. Download NOD32 v4 cfg.xml file provided by PCGamesHardware and extract.

2. Download the latest version of ESET NOD32 v4 trial. For 64-bit users, you can get it from here.

3. Install and follow the on screen instructions.

4. At the bottom left area where it says Display: Standard mode, click on the Change… link and click Yes button.
Change NOD32 display mode

5. Click on Setup at the left pane and then click Import and export settings.

6. Make sure that “Import settings” is selected and click on the … button to browse for the cfg.xml file.
eset import and export settings

7. Restart your computer and update virus signature database. NOD32 will download around 21MB to upgrade from trial to licensed version. If ESET fails to upgrade, try updating again. I had to update twice in order to get it right.

If you already have ESET NOD32 installed on your computer, you will only need to download the cfg.xml file and import it at Advanced mode. I tried using Nirsoft’s Asterisk Logger to reveal the asterisk behind the NOD32 password but it doesn’t work. However when I tried using Password Viewer which also does the same thing as Asterisk Logger, it worked perfectly by showing the hidden password!
decrypt eset password
Looks like ESET has blocked Nirsoft’s Asterisk Logger but not Password Viewer. I could just provide the ESET NOD32 username and password that I’ve decrypted from the cfg.xml file here but I don’t think it’s appropriate because I believe the license can get blacklisted very quickly. This license valid until 4/21/2010 which is less than 6 months because the promotion started on October.

Here are some unrelated information to today’s topic. There seems to be quite a lot of free license promotion going around. I will list them out here so you won’t wake up to another article of “Free this and free that”. ZoneAlarm and F-Secure offer has just expired…

1. McAfee VirusScan® Plus3-User with SiteAdvisor for 12 months
http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/affiliates/vmware/landingpages/16288.asp?cid=48523

2. IObit Advanced System Care Pro Edition
http://db.iobit.com/license-free/asc-free-license.php

3. a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/order/24h/


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    • Ahmed

      Nice find Mr.Raymond.Thanks your effort.

    • Boni

      4 Offers in One Article !! Wow !

    • shootingspy

      This is what i get when i hit the Download NOD32 V4 cfg.xml file

      Fehler/Error
      Wir bitten um Verständnis, dass wir Deeplinks auf unsere Dateien nicht gestatten können.
      We ask for your understanding that we cannot permit deeplinks to our files. 11.11.2009 08:11 Uhr

      i think there is something missing most probably the proxy server address

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      I am able to download the cfg.zip file directly.
      You can try using this 2 proxy
      http://www.proxy-service.de/
      http://www.german-proxy.de/

    • bivas brahma

      both the two proxies are not working

    • bruce

      i also cant download the file….
      ehler/Error
      Wir bitten um Verständnis, dass wir Deeplinks auf unsere Dateien nicht gestatten können.
      We ask for your understanding that we cannot permit deeplinks to our files. 11.11.2009 08:11 Uhr

    • bruce

      hey…. try this proxy …

      http://www.hidemyass.com

      just download….. working fine …

    • Dan

      Thanks again for the great offers!

    • Dan

      Sorry for double-posting… would anybody know how to download the Anti-Malware for free? I can’t seem to find a link to take advantage of the offer…

    • Gaurav

      thanks Ray
      i got mcafee for myself
      thanks a lot

    • Dado

      I have same Error
      Fehler/Error
      Wir bitten um Verständnis, dass wir Deeplinks auf unsere Dateien nicht gestatten können.

    • Adrian Winata

      Is that work with ESET Smart Security?

    • Tejaswi

      I followed what you asked us to Mr. Raymond

      But after rebooting the laptop it said, License Expired! I don’t know why. So I have changed the trial license I had before which will work for 11 days more.

      Being a fan of Eset Smart Security, I wanted to use this promo but anyways. Thanks for the post Raymond :)

    • roy raay

      proxy works thanks mate, cheers!

    • oxus

      Don’t click on the link; copy&paste in address bar and is working ok.
      Thanks for this Raymond!

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      It’s for NOD32 and NOT for Smart Security.

    • Tejaswi

      oh! Thanks for the reply Raymond. I thought it would work for ESS too…. My problem!

      Thanks again!

    • http://lintasbola.blogspot.com/ Gunawan

      ah man.. you have forgot about download manager. Use orbit downloader to download!

    • Shady

      Hey Ray…
      Fehler/Error
      Wir bitten um Verständnis, dass wir Deeplinks auf unsere Dateien nicht gestatten können.
      We ask for your understanding that we cannot permit deeplinks to our files. 11.11.2009 11:17 Uhr
      Also i saw some solution like dowload a proxy or something but i don’t know how to use a proxy to solve this problem, i am waiting you

    • http://www.newbiesblogger.net newbiesblogger

      hmm, after view their comparison, of course they are the best (because it is from they site).. hmm i need a neutral tester..

    • sam1992martin

      hi ray i think you should now remove the ban on poor “ivan_baroveca” who originally posted this and got banned …..the thread is here…..http://www.raymond.cc/forum/freebies/15562-eset-nod32-antivirus-4-licence-21-april-2010-for-3-computers.html

    • mango

      It works fine. Too bad its only for the AV and not ESS. Thanks Raymond

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      @sam1992martin: It wasn’t me that banned ivan_baroveca. I will check and see what happened.

    • kantagara

      Raymond tnx for these amazing offers. Only I don’t know when will IOBIT launch their promotion?

    • JoeBlack40

      Something weird….on the PROTECTION STATUS main panel,it says that i have 30 days trial left…but if i click on ABOUT,it says 30 days trial left,and license valid until 21.04.2010……after 2 updates and reboots,still gotting this…could anyone explain?Thanks Raymond.

    • rama

      Looks like it works now.. but they monitor GEO location of the keys listed.. And i dont think they would just sit quite

      eBRo

    • Bernard

      Hi all

      Same error message here for direct DL. Solution:

      go to http://download.pcgameshardware.de
      (error message)
      go to http://download.pcgameshardware.de/asset
      (re-error message)
      go to http://download.pcgameshardware.de/asset/binaries (re-re …)

      and now, ladies and gentlemen, go to :
      http://download.pcgameshardware.de/asset/binaries/cfg.zip
      (tiens, ça marche ;-) )

      It works ;-)

      probably a referrer problem …

      Enjoy !

    • orthodox

      thanks raymund!!!! you are amazingly good….

    • noprob

      I also received the error by clicking on the link to download,but done as a copy/paste works fine.

      also I would like to thank you Raymond for this as Avira free is just not feeling safe as it used to.

      I’m good to go until 04/21/2010

      10 minutes 29 second scan on C: drive all good using XP Pro SP3

      Thx. again Raymond!

    • http://errpr marius

      error againd:|

    • peter

      thanks ray!!!!

    • Manuel

      Hello:

      Thanks for publishing this prom.

      I just wanted to say that the key is the same for everyone. I mean There is no problem if someday publish the username and the password, so it would be faster and easier for us.

      This is just my advice. Thanks again.

      Bye.

    • Rajitha

      Thanks Mr. Raymond. this worked like a charm.

    • norman

      Thanks Ray! This is good for all computer users but. I’m already comfortable with Avira.

      Thanks again Ray!

    • delta55

      tahnks

    • Junaid Ahmad

      can someone uload the xml file? im unable to download

    • murali

      Thanx it worked … thnx Raymond…

    • dick white

      Evidently, the license is not good outside of Germany (?) or at least not in the US or at least not on my machine.

      After following the instructions, I imported the XML settings, updated, rebooted and it still says 30 day trial. After repeating 3 times, I’m guessing that it just doesn’t like the license code.

      C’est la vie

    • Igor

      It seems that everyone is downloading the same xml file so everyone is getting the same username/password (EAV-22677554).

    • donetus

      is there, by any chance, an alternative link for the CFG file? it seems that there’s an error when trying to save the file ..

    • Igor

      Searching on Google for the decrypted password shows 1190 pages that contain it so it seems this is not going to last for 6 months.

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      @Igor: Yes everyone gets the same username and password because it’s the same cfg.xml file.

      @dick white: Simply a restart will not turn the trial NOD32 to the full version.. You will have to run an update which will download around 21MB.

    • Chris

      hey ray,

      I tried to get the password by using password viewer like u did but it didnt work?

      have eset blocked password viewer?

    • nders

      hey raymond, do u know that IOBit recently is accused of stealing database data from malwarebytes? sigh… Chinese company… dodgy.

    • Zee Jay

      thanks Raymond…works like a charm… you are a true friend…

    • Ajay

      Thanx Raymond I used the Proxy given by you, it worked for me.

    • Willem

      @ Raymond and all

      If you go to Ivan’s banned posting, you will see the direct download link for that required cfg.xml key file which I have posted (#11) in the thread.

      This is ivan_baroveca’s thread location:

      http://www.raymond.cc/forum/freebies/15562-eset-nod32-antivirus-4-licence-21-april-2010-for-3-computers.html

      The PC Game Hardware page where the key file is posted — scroll down past halfway, on the left side, which says —

      Downloads:
      • Lizenzdatei für Eset NOD32 Antivirus 4 [3,00 KB]

      http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,698234/Windows-7-PCGH-Sonderheft-Eset-NOD32-Antivirus-4-freischalten/PCGH-Heft/News/

      It doesn’t even need a proxy if you click the download link on that web page.

    • http://raymond.cc Sasukkio

      Why the same user and password has not been banned?
      It was used but 1000 persons :S

    • pgk

      Thanks Willem, your link working just fine :-))

    • Willem

      @ pgk

      My pleasure. Thanks to Raymond for everything.

      Although I’m hooked to KIS, those who can’t or won’t get it should grab this ESET NOD32 opportunity.

    • Boris

      Actually you don’t need to restart. Just upgrade.
      Better still, you can run shadow defender, running this way nod32 in shadow mode and afterwords save all changes you want to the real disk. You save the license in this case with the ‘commit now’ button.

    • kartik

      i am unable to download NOD32 v4 cfg.xml now… please suggest what should i do?

    • kartik

      guys somebody please help me out i am unable to download the NOD32 v4 cfg.xml file… there got to be a way to get it now…

    • cro team
    • Zee Jay

      My Nod32 6 month license just became invalid. :(

      I guess it was too good to be true. I am getting the message “invalid username/password”

    • Jimmy James

      “My Nod32 6 month license just became invalid. :(

      I guess it was too good to be true. I am getting the message “invalid username/password””

      You’re not alone, I’m back to avast now

    • Jo

      here also invalid usernam/password.
      sad…
      :-(

    • http://www.mexanime.org gamamew

      Me too, seems that ESET has banned that account.

    • Horst

      Same here… license invalid since todays morning

    • Jo

      It’s a pity. A trial license last 30 days, here it was lasting only a week.
      :-(

    • stonewall

      after 1 week, its say,can’t update.
      user and password invalid.
      thanks anyway.

    • bryan

      I just realized that my license is now invalid user. Too good to be true! :(

    • Schatje

      Hahahaha.. too many user use same username.. they blacklist that username…

    • Candy

      Dudes, ESET is tracking any activity and logons with the same data each day, and if has any mass activity,immediate block everything out of control. Any public keys for NOD32 is always fast expired and banned.

    • S.Jaafar N. Ahmed

      Thanks ray, but I’ll stick with Avira Personal ;)
      Regarding the comparison published on ESET site, I’ve read on Avast site that this compares between the outdated versions. And honestly; I can’t personally trust a comparison which doesn’t provide all details about all antiviruses versions and settings.

    • http://hello Braha

      I don’t have Username and Password.
      How can I get it

    • unome

      Danke Ray,

      It works perfectly fine with both downloads.
      Wuensche dir alles gute mann.

      Guys,

      If you want to download the xml file just copy the link and paste it in a new window then download pop-up will appear for download.

      To download the program just click on it and then you can it works fine.

      GL guys

      unome

    • vishnu

      how to download eset nod32 v4 software free version

    • irwin

      thanks raymond, my nod32 is now updated….Godbless

    • tapan

      thank u very much ray…very good work ray..now i hv got nod32 fr 6 months..can’t believe it…great work..keep doing it..

    • http://www.nod32free.com/ nod32 keys

      nice nod32!

    • maswelu

      Thanks Ray, i can download the cfg file using proxy service
      and now my nod32 license valid till april 2010

      thanks nod32, you’re good…

    • spizzles

      Works perfectly mate! thanks a lot for this! keep us updated!!… :D:D

    • mehrdad golchin

      username password nod32

    • http://www.eset-nod32-antivirus.co.uk Steve

      It’s not the first time I’ve heard of this but you’ve explained it much better. Nice blog, it’s my first time here but I’ll be back for more.

    • http://eset reggie

      bigyan nyo naman ak ng password sa eset nod 32 v4 at pati username

    • ravikiran

      very good antivirus for all viruses

    • http://hi marwen

      free lience

    • http://nod32 ivailo

      i wan user name and password

    • dragan

      licenca

    • che

      penge ng password at username sa eset nod32 antivirus 4 salamat

    • http://licencia mirtha

      xfavor no entiendo muy bien el procedimiento para descargar el antivirus gratis por 6 meses

    • havalı

      ya bu eset dod32 yi nası indiri on söylein nolur abiler

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