Free 6 month Avira Premium AntiVirus!!! (Update: now 1 month only.)

January 11, 2009 58 Email article | Print article

Update: This offer is now only 1 month free.

For McAfee I posted that I would not touch it with a 10 foot pole. For Avira, I am considering ditching my Kaspersky AV for it! Avira is amongst the best of the best when it comes to computer security. Even Avira Free AV provides amazing protection for $0. And a chance at a free 6 months license to Premium edition is a god send. I highly suggest every one takes advantage of this opportunity. Remember this is not Avira Free AV. This is Avira Premium AV. A 6 months license. For free. If you don’t believe me, read up on tests done by av-comparatives.org. The following are the differences between Avira Free AV and Avira Premium AV:

Avira Free AV

AntiVir protection against viruses, worms and Trojans

AntiDialer protection against expensive dialers

AntiRootkit protection against hidden rootkits

Faster Scanning up to 20% faster

New User Interface

AntiPhishing protection against phishing

Avira Premium AV

In addition to everything mentioned above for Avira Free AV, Premium includes

AntiSpyware protection against spyware and adware

WebGuard protection against malicious websites

AntiDrive-by stops malware downloads while surfing

RescueSystem creates a bootable rescue CD

Enhanced email protection for POP3 and SMTP

Fast Premium update server

Okay so now down to the good stuff. How to get 6 month license for Avira Premium AV for free:

Update: Just for your information, this free 6 months license is provided to us by PC-Welt, a German magazine. Please visit them, even if you cant read what they say, to thank them for the offer by giving them more website hits or something.

Visit this website and fill out the form. Be sure to use a valid email address. It is in German:

Once you have filled everything out, hit the “Submit Request” or “Linez Anfordern” button. There seems to be some sort of connection problem so after you hit the “Submit Request” button your browser may take a very long time to load the next page eventually ending in a 404 error of some sorts. But don’t worry that is no problem. After you hit the “Submit Request” button and the next page has loaded into a 404 error, close out the window. Even if you don’t get a 404 error and the next page does load properly, close out the window. Check your email that you entered in the form on the German Avira website. You should have an email (which will be in German) from “Avira <avpe@avira.com>”. The subject line will be “Ihre Avira Testlizenz?”. The email looks like this:

As I mentioned, the gmail is in German. Don’t worry we don’t need to translate the email – we are only interested in the attachment. There is file attached to the email called “HBEDV.KEY”. Download this file and keep it in a safe place on your computer that you will remember. This file is what will activate your 6 license when you are installing Avira Premium AV.

Now download Avira AntiVirus from here. After Avira is done downloading, install Avira. During the installation process, you will come across a screen where you will have to enter an activation code. The window will be like so – we are interested in the area I have boxed in red:

Click on “HBEDV.KEY”. A window will then pop up allowing you to browse your computer. Navigate to where you placed the “HBEDV.KEY” file that you downloaded from the email. Select it and enter it into the program. Then hit “Next”. The next window that pops up will confirm that you have activated Avira Premium AV successfully:

If you see the window in the above screenshot, congratulations you now are the proud owner of Avira Premium AntiVirus – for 6 months at least =D. Just hit “Next” and let the installation finish. Welcome to the Avira fan club =D.

Before we go, there is one more house keeping chore to do. This is optional, but recommended:

Go to https://license.avira.com/en/login.html. Click on “Forgot Password”:

That will bring you to a window where you can enter an email. Enter the email you entered earlier when signing up for the 6 months license and shit “Send me a new password”:

Now check your email for an email from “Avira customer account <avpe@avira.com>” with the subject line “New password for your Avira customer account?”. It will look like the following:

Click on that first link, the one that is boxed in read in the above screenshot. That will bring you to your account page on Avira’s website:

From this page you will be able to manage all your Avira licenses including the 6 month free license you recieved today. The first thing you want to do, however, is change password!

That is it. If you have any questions or face any problems, feel free to ask me. I will try to help to the best of my ability.

58 Comments »

  1. Digish March 6, 2009 at 1:00 PM (comment permalink) -

    HI, Sorry for the wrong information. Inside the program the validity is only for one month.

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  2. Aunti Vir March 7, 2009 at 3:27 AM (comment permalink) -

    I’ve been using this on my machines for at least the last 1.5 years. How? Avira *regularly* has deals with magazines to provide 90 day licenses. Just Google to find; input a different name and imaginative email address and download the license. The 6 month subscription here is longer but otherwise nothing special.

    BTW, think twice about replacing Kaspersky with Avira. Kaspersky isn’t free (mostly) but it has *considerably* fewer false positives than Avira. That doesn’t make Avira bad, it just makes it annoying if you regularly encounter packed files and the like.

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  3. Aunti Vir March 7, 2009 at 3:44 AM (comment permalink) -

    Still one more note about the above link to the 90 day Avira license: After completing the form you’ll see a screen informing you that it has sent the license to your email address. Obviously, if you’ve used a “creative” address you won’t receive it SO…there is also a button at the bottom which says ‘License Overview’. Click that and you’ll see a form that allows you to download both the program and the license directly.

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  4. saeed April 12, 2009 at 3:40 PM (comment permalink) -
  5. bkca April 17, 2009 at 8:56 AM (comment permalink) -

    6-month license key that is suitable for both Avira AV premium 9 and Avira Premium Security Suite 9: https://license.avira.com/en/promotion-8821dtghledngvzkrrqr

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  6. Jean-Luc Picard April 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM (comment permalink) -

    @ashraf:
    What bkca said!

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  7. Sunil June 7, 2009 at 10:12 PM (comment permalink) -

    I have satisfied your name please send me key with software.

    With regards

    Sunil Joshi

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  8. Ardwych June 7, 2009 at 10:25 PM (comment permalink) -

    Sunil, huh? Are you serious?
    There are some things that you just have to do yourself.
    With regards.

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  9. nico December 10, 2009 at 7:33 AM (comment permalink) -

    thank you avira,i need one year premium from January 2009

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  10. neeraj January 3, 2010 at 5:09 PM (comment permalink) -

    please provide me with month avira antivirus software for my pc thank u

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  11. Phred January 3, 2010 at 10:57 PM (comment permalink) -

    @neeraj
    What Ardwych said!

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  12. elvisdass January 9, 2010 at 7:56 AM (comment permalink) -

    thank u sir for giving me avira key

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  13. ali March 7, 2010 at 4:17 AM (comment permalink) -
  14. ali March 7, 2010 at 4:28 AM (comment permalink) -
  15. dorothy April 6, 2010 at 11:51 AM (comment permalink) -

    i sign up and paid for the premium  back in dec and never got it   so i received virus  that i don’t like

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  16. magdy nabeih monuir April 23, 2010 at 2:33 PM (comment permalink) -

    renew my avira permium license

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  17. inder May 2, 2010 at 3:38 AM (comment permalink) -
  18. mohammad Atik August 8, 2010 at 12:38 AM (comment permalink) -

    this is very most antivirus it is true anti virus

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  19. priyank September 9, 2010 at 7:38 PM (comment permalink) -
  20. somit October 9, 2010 at 7:37 AM (comment permalink) -

    i think its good.early i used avst-it is very slow take long time 4 scan

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  21. Mihai March 12, 2011 at 10:22 AM (comment permalink) -

    AVIRA Premium Security Suite 10 – 6 months FREE License this is a german giveaway: http://downext.com/2011/03/avira-premium-security-suite-10-6-months-free-license/

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  22. mahmood June 15, 2011 at 9:46 AM (comment permalink) -

    hello hey i have one question how can i download the update of Avira which is for one Year or less than that if it is possible please send me the link where can i donwload it tnx i am waiting for it

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  23. rakesh kumar July 22, 2011 at 10:00 PM (comment permalink) -
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