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If you still use XP get Kaspersky Anti-Virus for free.
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus for FREE on Windows XP [1000 Only]
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Hemisphere technologies is the Australian distributor. http://www.kaspersky.com/au/partners/buyoffline
Thank you for clarifying
Thank you for your due-diligence and protecting other OZbargainers.
I heared microsoft was gonna discontinue XP soon.
when did you hear that?….. I thought it was already
End of Microsoft support for Windows XP was April 8. The OS will, however, continue to work fine for as long as you care to use it. Security flaws and other bugs will no longer be patched, but you can use 3rd party security programs that will keep your system well protected.
Microsoft have turned their Security Essentials antivirus software into nagware that constantly urges you to (unnecessarily) buy a new OS or a new PC, in concert with the end of support. As a result, many people are looking to replace it. This would be a good alternative.
Gen-ME won't understand, but there are times when you don't fix things that aren't broken and for many this is one of those times. Particularly so if you have legacy hardware in a commercial environment which has no driver support in Windows OSs newer than XP or Vista.
My gosh bazzaa, you are sorely mistaken about the state of XP. You have taken a few key points about it and twisted your own spin onto it to believe that it is perfectly fine to keep using in every day use.
An XP machine driving legacy hardware in a commercial environment is a far cry from using it at home or office for users to do everyday tasks with.
In a commercial environment, and XP machine should be separated from the rest of the network, particularly the internet, as much as possible, so that it can only perform the specific task that it needs to do.
Microsoft Security Essentials is targeted at home users and small offices (up to 10 PCs), which is unlikely to include any of those specialised PCs in a commercial environment.
Microsoft Security Essentials, while not providing very good antivirus protection anymore, is spot on that it's users (who likely use XP for everyday tasks) should not be using it anymore.
The reason why you should not be using XP unless it is absolutely necessary is because Security is not as simple as installing an Antivirus.
This is because Hackers who make viruses do so by targeting specific security holes on the computer which they can find. Usually the security hole is tricking the user into willingly downloading something to install without them realising that it is a virus, but there are certainly other security holes that they find from time to time that they exploit, such as what Blaster used, which automatically infected computers without any user interaction at all.
Antivirus software works by monitoring these security holes to see if anything comes through, but they can't do anything until something actually tries to come through the security hole, nor can they plug the security hole itself - they don't have the power to change how other companies products (Microsoft's) work.
Also, becauses Antivirus is a cat-and-mouse game between Antivirus companies and hackers who make viruses, the antivirus companies can never provide 100% protection because there will be times that the mouse will be ahead before the cat is able to catch up to it. Even if an antivirus is 99% effective, 1% is still a large amount of viruses running free among millions of computers, who have antivirus protection, and it takes that 1% to be infected before the virus is even discovered, saving the other 99%. Then it becomes a cleanup game and hopefully there is not permanent damage done (that's why offline Backups are important)
It's for this reason, that Antivirus can't close the security holes but only stop approximately 99% (best case) of the viruses that try to pop through the hole, that XP should not be relied upon.
It is well speculated that Hackers who make viruses are going to take advantage of the fact that the previously unknown security holes they expose after April 8, will never be closed in Windows XP. The viruses they make will keep trying to pop through this hole, each a different variation of the previous to avoid detection, forcing the Antivirus companies to keep catching each one, like Nintendo keep making new Pokemon so fast that you can never possibly "catch them all".
Kaspersky is trying to target a small portion of the market who are holding out on Windows XP by choice (such as yourself) by taking a risk that they will be able to keep up with the threats fast enough to prevent most of their XP users from getting infected. Whatever % of customers they eventually manage to protect will likely be repeat customers.
The best idea is to avoid infection in the first place by not having those security holes available for them to even try.
As opposed to the many discovered (by hackers) but not discovered (by Microsoft) security holes in Win 7/8/etc. that will be exploited - which only get patched when Microsoft gets around to it.
So what's the difference between old XP with a publically-known exploit, and Win 7/8 with an exploit not yet patched? Not much. This is why I'm going to try using Linux.
Not correct that this is a good alternative. It's an antivirus and won't protect against security exploits. Someone (that wants to) will be able to gain access to an XP machine (and Win 7/8 machine for that matter) when an exploit is discovered without an antivirus ever warning them.
"Enter your Windows XP Product ID here" im not sure that I'd be wanting to enter my XP product ID to this site
its a product id, not a serial number
I thought it was the same thing? the key
no they are not.
The Product Key is hidden and cannot be found using Windows explorer. You can only find it by digging around the registry and or using Produkey / Jellybean key finder.
Incorrect.
The Product Key can be found by opening the System Properties from your Control Panel. A useful keyboard shortcut for this is by pressing the Left Windows Key and the Pause/Break key together. The Product Key will appear just below the "name" that the system is registered to.
The Product Key is in no way related to the Activation Key. This key is hidden from the user.
bazzaa - the Product Key is the 25 character long thing on the CoA, individual to each OEM/Retail copy. You're thinking of the Product ID, that's what's in System Properties. An Activation Key would be one of those much longer numbers (35?) you use when activating via telephone.
thanks.grabbed a few :)
"If you still use XP get Kaspersky Anti-Virus for free."
… and I wish to welcome you to 2014 Buck Rogers. If anyone is still using this 12yo operating system to connect to the internet, you'll need a lot more help than Kaspersky is offering :).
May as well just leave your credit number and expiry date at the bottom of this very post.
shush. i use it for my honeypot vm.
btw my credit card number is 5400-6969-0531-8008 ;)
whats the three numbers on the back?
911
666
000
There are many holes in a OS that even a firewall and antivirus cannot plug. Many of them are through loopholes in programs, plugins and runtimes like Adobe Reader, Flash, and Java, and if you're running all of these in XP there's a very high probability you will get hacked in the near future through these apps.
Pure FUD…
If you're using these plugins/programs you can be hacked regardless of the version of the OS you are using. Whether or not you actually are hacked is by no means a foregone conclusion.
Saw the Facebook post and got one. Shame it isn't Internet security though. :/
It's a 12 month licence only, which may be a problem for anyone planning to use XP beyond the coming year. There's always AVG though.
Good as a stop-gap measure to give them more time to migrate the OS.
Tried with Win Vista serial key, still works
Downloaded and installed on VistaThanks!
If you look at the bottom of the page the guy's OS only has 64mb ram! I feel kinda sorry for him
Windows Service Pack 1 was released in 2002, at that time it was common for home computers to have anywhere between 64MB to 256MB of RAM. see http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm
You can XP on as little as 64MB RAM, although the recommended requirements were twice that @128MB.
Required CPU was only a Pentium 3 @ 233mhz.
Of course after SP2 and SP3 updates the requirements become much higher.
Why? My first desktop had 1mb of RAM and it had over 100 programs and games on it while at the same time hosting a BBS.
Things were more efficient and less bloat back then. ever see how big the footprint explorer.exe takes up nowadays?
Hmm… how legit is this? Don't think this is from Kaspersky
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