User guide

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The next installation window offers the option to set a password to protect your program settings. Select Protect
configuration settings with a password and enter your password into the the New password and Confirm new
password fields. This password will be required to change or access the settings of ESET NOD32 Antivirus. When both
password fields match, click Next to continue.
To complete the next installation steps, ESET Live Grid and Detection of potentially unwanted applications, follow
the instructions in the Live installer section (see “Live installer”).
Click Install in the Ready to install window to complete installation.
2.3 Product activation
After the installation is complete, you will be prompted to activate your product.
There are several methods for activating your product. Availability of a particular activation scenario in the activation
window may vary depending on the country, as well as the means of distribution (CD/DVD, ESET web page, etc.).
If you purchased a retail boxed version of the product, select Activate using an Activation Key. The Activation Key is
usually located inside or on the back side of the product package. The Activation Key must be entered as supplied for
activation to be successful.
If you received a Username and Password, select Activate using a Username and Password and enter your
credentials into the appropriate fields.
If you would like to evaluate ESET NOD32 Antivirus before making a purchase, select Activate Trial License. Fill in your
email address and country to activate ESET NOD32 Antivirus for a limited time. Your test license will be emailed to you.
Trial licenses can only be activated once per customer.
If you do not have a license and would like to buy one, click Purchase License. This will redirect you to the website of
your local ESET distributor.
Select Activate Later if you would like to quickly evaluate our product and do not wish to activate it immediately, or if
you would like to activate your product at a later time.
You can also activate your copy of ESET NOD32 Antivirus directly from the program. Click the Program menu icon
located in the top right corner or right-click on the ESET NOD32 Antivirus icon in the system tray and select
Activate your product... from the menu.
2.4 Entering username and password
For optimal functionality, it is important that the program is automatically updated. This is only possible if the correct
Username and Password are entered in Update setup.
If you did not enter your Username and Password during installation, you can do so now. In the main program
window, click Help and support and then Activate License and enter the license data you received with your ESET
security product into the Product activation window.
When entering your Username and Password, it is important to type them exactly as they are written:
The username and password are case sensitive and the hyphen in the username is necessary.
The password is ten characters long and all lowercase.
We do not use the letter L in passwords (use the number one (1) instead).
A big '0' is the number zero (0), a little 'o' is the lowercase letter o.
We recommend copying and pasting the data from the registration email to ensure accuracy.