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Where to get Kaspersky activation codes cheaply?

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First post, by Kerr Avon

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A friend of mine is a customer of the British bank Barclays, and has been using kaspersky anti-virus as recommended by the bank, but the bank stopped using or recommending using kaspersky some time back. Anyway, her copies of kaspersky are now up for renewal, and she wants to keep on using kaspersky, although I've tried to talk her into using a free solution (such as the fantastic Avast! Anti-virus), so she asked me where the cheapest place to buy an activation code would be? She wants it for a tablet and a mobile phone (not necessarily for her desktop, as she rarely uses t), so can anyone recommend a good site that sells legitimate activation codes for kaspersky, please?

I know kaspersky's own site does so, but she says she's heard that ebay or similar has cheaper offers, but is afraid of paying for codes that turn out not to work. I've never paid for AV software (Avast!, AVG, and other free packages have always been great for me and my mates' PCs and laptops), so any advice is welcome. It must cover at least one mobile phone, and one tablet, thanks.

Reply 2 of 3, by DosFreak

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I don't think the government hasn't shown any proof but they are going through and banning software controlled by foreign governments as a precaution, the pentagon recently released a publicly available list of software they are banning. IMHO, if you're going to ban the software you may as well ban all foreign produced hardware as well but that would likely be impossible so may as well go for the low hanging fruit.

At work I manage the McAfee EPO environment across all of our devices but at home I used Windows Defender included with Windows 10 and it works well enough. Ideally I think it would be best if the ISP worked with the AV vendor to provide and manage AV for the end user (with a very good SLA) since there is alot of tech in these products that go unused in the home market.

https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/

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Reply 3 of 3, by Kerr Avon

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She wants it in spite of the reason why it is being dumped by corporate and government IT departments?

I think she's just used to it, and probably dislikes change, which is fairly common amongst those who don't know or don't want to learn anything about their PC/tablet/mobile phone. Mind you, if I did know anything about tablets or mobile phones, then if there is a free, good anti-virus/malware package then I'd recommend that to her, but I'm only really experienced with the PC.

Is there a good, preferably free, anti-virus package for both Android tablets, and mobile phones (I can't remember what her mobile phone is, but I really doubt it's Apple)?

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I don't think the government hasn't shown any proof but they are going through and banning software controlled by foreign governments as a precaution, the pentagon recently released a publicly available list of software they are banning. IMHO, if you're going to ban the software you may as well ban all foreign produced hardware as well but that would likely be impossible so may as well go for the low hanging fruit.

At work I manage the McAfee EPO environment across all of our devices but at home I used Windows Defender included with Windows 10 and it works well enough. Ideally I think it would be best if the ISP worked with the AV vendor to provide and manage AV for the end user (with a very good SLA) since there is alot of tech in these products that go unused in the home market.

https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/

That's a good thought, and ideally it would support mobile phone and tablet security too, as well as Windows based PCs (and Linux, and maybe the Mac?).

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