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Doesn't stack, it replaces any existing.
Its for one computer , not 3
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Hello!
Thank you for choosing Bitdefender® Total Security 2015, awarded by AV-TEST Best Protection for 3 years straight! You’re getting this product for FREE, and your license is valid for 9 months.
You can start using this product immediately, using this product key
Nothing mentioning 3 pc's.
Anyone care to confirm using this key HFTEQW2 and report below if you use it
Anyone care to confirm using this key HFTEQW2 and report below if you use it
"Invalid".
Although it is now working, so it should be fine for use on 3PC's.
i can confirm that the key HFTEQW2 works to stack on
Awesome! Thank you! My subscription to total security was just about to expire!
Is this the full package, or just the anti-virus?
EDIT: looks like just the AV, so be mindful of that.
Nope - Total Security is, as the name implies, the whole lot;
http://www.bitdefender.com.au/solutions/antivirus-comparison…
Is this the full package, or just the anti-virus?
The full package. Total Security 2015.
It just dropped mine from 290 days to 270 :/
Whoops! I've got 370 days left on IS 2014, 78 days on IS 2015, and now 270 days of TS 2015! :D
I reinstated the previous code to get me back to 290 days but can't stack another code.
Mine did exactly the same. Dropped by about 25 days. So put my old code back to get my 293 days back.
Pleased I'm not the only one!
Thanks OP, Now I've just got to find a way to remove those TrafficLights!
How does this company make any money? It seems like they are giving away keys all the time.
Can anyone confirm that it stacks with existing free code? I got 291 days remaining on mine.
Not that it matters too much I guess if it gets replaced with 270 days. I'm sure there will be another 6 or 9 month code somewhere down the line to refresh it.
If all these codes stacked, I might have 5 years remaining and you could potentially make it free forever.
D: I paid for this literally 3 days ago.
Anyone else get stuck "upgrading" from IS 2015 to Total 2015?
I had to uninstall IS, restart my computer and use the link they sent to my email. Required me to use the product key again but after that it installed quite quickly.
Can I use this for MAC?
I think OP needs to amend the title of the post. This doesn't extend existing license. If it does, couldn't I just create a new email address, and just keep on adding subscriptions until it lasts all the way to my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-greatDEEP BREATH-great-great-great-great-great-great grandkids?
reminds me of the old norton antivirus trick that doesnt work anymore..change the date to 2050, install, then change date back
This doesn't extend existing license.
It does. As an example, if your current license expires in 100 days, adding this will give you a total of 270 days. It will not add a further 270 to your existing 100. Conversely, if you add this license to an account that has 300 days remaining, it will reduce it by 30 days to 270, so you should check first (see here).
couldn't I just create a new email address, and just keep on adding subscriptions.
From what I understand, you cannot activate this license after the deal expires (3rd March). In effect, you need to activate it now. So it's pointless creating a stack of email addresses, as you'll have licenses that are totally useless beyond March 3.
I hope I've explained it well.
I get it, but to be honest I don't think this is how extending a license works - saying extend implies it adds on to the existing days (for example, if I said I extended my house by 3 meters, you would assume that I added 3 metres to its existing length).
Also saying extend does not cover any circumstances where the license could actually reduce (as you've explained above).
I think the right phrasing here is that it replaces the existing license.
Yes, I think that is what it does. So, only an advantage if you are approaching renewal date.
Totally agree. Would be far less confusing to say 'replaces' or 'overwrites' existing license. Extending usually means stacking in this context, and that is not what this license does.
Thanks OP. Got one for my friend's Laptop, who had a malware/virus attack on his PC earlier this week.
Any ideas for MAC version please?
Great - 53 up to 270 days. Was getting worried I might have to pay for software. Thanks!
Awesome!
I am still using another security suite but once it expires, I will use this one, I just want to ask if you can indeed install it at a later date? I already have the key.
The key has an expiry date. You have to activate the key before then, so you can't save it for later use. But there will be more keys given away later when your current one expires, I'm sure.
Has BD become the security software of choice on OzB?
BitDefender is the cheapest commercial offering (due to all the free codes).
It's equally effective as Avira free (but you have to deal with a daily 'pop up')
What pop up?
Is Bit defender better than AVG Internet security 2014? Or to put it another way should I replace AVG with this?
I haven't used AVG in a long time, but some years ago I heard everyone complain that AVG had become a resource hog. This happens to a lot of software.
Yes. AVG (free) also performs poorly at catching as many samples as Antivir / Bitdefender.
Can they stack on themselves? Or only separate keys?