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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: larny on February 03, 2012, 02:27:05 AM

Title: Loading Avast on to my second computer
Post by: larny on February 03, 2012, 02:27:05 AM

I have the paid Home version of Avast & would like to load it onto my second computer.

So I called the Avast help number & the woman told me to just download Avast & insert my existing licence number or licence file.

However, she had a heavy accent & I found her hard to understand.

So I did not ask how to find the number or file.  I thought it would be obvious.  But I can't find it & don't know what to look for anyway.

Please help.

Title: Re: Loading Avast on to my second computer
Post by: avast@@dvantage77.com on February 03, 2012, 02:57:01 AM

If you paid, then you have avast! Pro.  The other product is avast! FREE for Home use only. If you paid, then you were sent an email license or cade.  The file is "license.avastlic"

Title: Re: Loading Avast on to my second computer
Post by: ady4um on February 03, 2012, 03:23:50 AM

Either you paid for Avast Pro, or for AIS. When you paid, you probably provided an email address. The same email address should had received an email. Check you "junk" email folder.

If you still don't find it, look at http://www.avast.com/license-center (http://www.avast.com/license-center) so to receive the email again (but the email address you will provide now neeeds to be the same one you used the first time).

Title: Re: Loading Avast on to my second computer
Post by: larny on February 04, 2012, 03:48:31 AM

Quote from: avast@advantage77.com on February 03, 2012, 02:57:01 AM

If you paid, then you have avast! Pro.  The other product is avast! FREE for Home use only. If you paid, then you were sent an email license or cade.  The file is "license.avastlic"

Thank you.  I searched for it using this file name & found it - filed in an obscure location.

Yes, it must be Avast Pro.

Len

Title: Re: Loading Avast on to my second computer
Post by: larny on February 04, 2012, 03:51:15 AM

Quote from: ady4um on February 03, 2012, 03:23:50 AM

Either you paid for Avast Pro, or for AIS. When you paid, you probably provided an email address. The same email address should had received an email. Check you "junk" email folder.

If you still don't find it, look at http://www.avast.com/license-center (http://www.avast.com/license-center) so to receive the email again (but the email address you will provide now neeeds to be the same one you used the first time).

Thanks for the response.

I've now filed all this info in my Avast folder for future reference.

Title: Re: Loading Avast on to my second computer
Post by: avast@@dvantage77.com on February 06, 2012, 06:27:26 PM

I always liked to hide a copy of the "license.avastlic" in the root of drive C:.  Nobody ever looks there, so it always persists no matter what users delete.

J.R. Guthrie