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PARTICIPATING IN PROTECT A FRIEND PROGRAM
Protect a Friend program allows you to publish on Twitter and on your page in Facebook or vk.com a link for
downloading the distribution package of Kaspersky Internet Security with an extended evaluation period. If one of your
friends on Twitter, Facebook, or vk.com downloads the distribution package of Kaspersky Internet Security by clicking
the link that you published and then activates the application, you will be awarded bonus points. You can exchange
collected bonus points for a bonus activation code for Kaspersky Internet Security.
Note that the option of participation in Protect a Friend program is not available for each of the users.
If you participate in Protect a Friend program, the user rating is assigned to you. The user rating depends on the
application version and on application features and components that you use the most frequently (for example, scan,
Parental Control, Safe Money).
To participate in Protect a Friend program, open the web page with your profile in Protect a Friend program. You can
view the web page with your profile by clicking the profile link in the lower part of the main window of Kaspersky Internet
Security. Your profile is automatically created when you first log in.
To log in to your profile in Protect a Friend program, you should go through authentication with Kaspersky Account. If you
have no Kaspersky Account yet, you can create one when first opening your profile in Protect a Friend program.
On the web page with your profile in Protect a Friend program, you can perform the following actions:
 View your rating in Protect a Friend program and the number of bonus points collected
 Publish links for downloading the installation package of Kaspersky Internet Security
 Edit the properties of your profile (the user picture and the name that will be shown on Twitter, in social
networks, and in your blog together with a link for downloading the installation package of Kaspersky Internet
Security).
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Logging in to your profile in Protect a Friend program ................................................................................................ 67
How to share a link to Kaspersky Internet Security with friends .................................................................................. 68
Exchanging points for a bonus activation code........................................................................................................... 69
LOGGING IN TO YOUR PROFILE IN THE PROTECT A FRIEND PROGRAM
To log in to your profile in Protect a Friend program, you should go through authentication with Kaspersky Account. If you
do not have Kaspersky Account yet, you should create one when first logging in to the web page of Protect a Friend
program.
Kaspersky Account is the address of your email and the password (at least eight characters) that you have specified
during registration.
After an account is created, a message will be sent to your email, containing a link for activation of your Kaspersky
Account.
After the activation, you can use your Kaspersky Account to log in to the web page with your profile in Protect a Friend
program.
To create your Kaspersky Account:
1. Open the main application window and click the My profile link in the lower part of the window.
A web page of Protect a Friend program opens, containing fields for registration or authentication with
Kaspersky Account.