Early February this year I’ve posted a trick on how to obtain a free Kaspersky Anti-Virus license key that is valid for a year. It’s nearly November now and I am sure the code will be expiring in 3 months time. Here is a good news to you all. I’ve found a way to obtain a free 9 months genuine commercial license key for the latest Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009. All I can say is grab this FAST before this offer expires again. This method is still not being widely published, so I thought I should share with all of you on how to get the free Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 activation code.

Basically the difference between Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 is antivirus is just an antivirus alone that protects your computer from virus. As for Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, it is a full/complate security suite that includes antivirus to protect against virus, firewall to protect against hackers, content filtering for parental control and spam filtering, and etc. Logically, KIS 2009 should take more memory usage than KAV 2009.


Before I show you or you immediately scrolling down to see how to get the 9 months free KAV 2009 license key, I would suggest you to read and get to know about Kaspersky software activation limits first. You can only use 2 activations simultaneously. If you’ve noticed, Kaspersky allows you to “merge” 1 new license to your currently installed license to extend the expire date. All this while I thought that if you have a 2 KIS license valid for a year and both activated on the same day, merging both license would give me 2 years of license. I was wrong and I just found out that this is how it works.

Let’s say I have 2 KIS 2009 license key file which is valid for 1 year and both activated today. Merging the two license key files together will only give me 1 year + 2 weeks extension but NOT 2 years. As you can see that the “activation date” data in a key is very important. So if you have 2 six months license keys, you have to activate one of it first, use it until it expires and then only activate the second one to be able to use for a whole year. Otherwise if you activate both at the same time, you’d only get 6 months + 2 weeks license. Got it?

Next, there are 3 ways to activate Kaspersky software.

1. Activation Code or online method. Kaspersky activation code comes in XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX format. Your computer will need to have an internet connection and

2. License Key File or offline method. The key file is in XXXXXXXX.key format and can be downloaded from Kaspersky activation server http://activation.kaspersky.com/.

3. Trial activation. By default Kaspersky allows you to use their products for 30 days period. The trial activation can only be used/activated once unless you use the illegal Trial Reset tool. If you’ve already activated the 30 days trial for Kaspersky and now you got a 6 months trial key, you won’t be able to merge or activate the 6 months trial key because Kaspersky only allows you to activate the trial ONCE.

All Kaspersky activation code has shelf life or deadline which you must activate or else it will automatically activated and start running even if no one is using it. The codes that are generated from Kaspersky server has a shelf line of 3 months and CD’s from computer stores have a longer shelf life.

Kaspersky India is offering a free 6 months commercial key (not TRIAL). Since the 6 months KAV 2009 license given by Kaspersky India is generated online, it should have a shelf life of 3 months. So In order to extend your Kaspersky Anti-Virus license up to 9 months, you’ll need to request 2 codes from Kaspersky India. Activate ONLY the first license key, then activate the second key after 3 months. This way you can use Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 for 9 months!

Follow the steps below to get your free Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 license valid for 6 months and extendable to 9 months.

1. Go to this Kaspersky India page http://www.kasperskyindia.com/registration.asp

2. Enter your Name of Institution/Company, Phone No , E-Mail, Contact Name, Address and Pin Code. You can enter fake information but make sure your email is valid because the KAV key is sent there.

3. Wait for a few days for the KAV key to be sent to your email because I believe this is done manually. I was lucky to get it within a day, but the second one took 5 days. So be patient and don’t resubmit your request as this will only add more requests to the long queue.

Enjoy the free commercial Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 license!

Update: Some of you are VERY ungrateful by sending me an email accusing me that I am lying and this is fake/scam. Check out the screenshot of the email that I received with the 6 months Kaspersky Antivirus key. Total I got 4 free kaspersky antivirus keys. First one was on 19 October, followed by 24 October, 30 October and 31 October.