One of my friends told me that if you get a free virusprotection (like one for a few days like 15 or 30 days) he told me that if you change your clock time like to 2060 the time of the trail will be extended or maybe it was 1860 but either of those
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2006-06-12 11:50:36 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
if you dont get this i mean if you change the clock like 100 years back and get a trail virus trail version you can make it go forever if you change your clock to like the 1800s
2006-06-12 11:54:57 · update #1
yes. If you get the older copies of Norton, this will occur. The function that tracks the time of your trial, is based on your clock. If you keep switching the dates back, it won't be able to keep track. This is also good for a number of other primitive programs. However, any new versions will not allow this. They have a more specific code in your registry. If you can find and delete the registry code, you can install the software again. To avoid this, companies now put multiple registry entries under a vareity of names.
2006-06-12 11:52:18 · answer #1 · answered by FY 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the good old days it could be done, but when you set the clock in windows back, it kept popping up bios errors. Windows 98 and before. Now, even if you find a good way to bypass registration keys and the like, most companies create updates that will catch the invalid code soon after. If all you want is a good free virus program. Check out AVG Free edition (Never expires-Yet) or aVast, they give the full version to you for one year.
2006-06-12 18:58:13 · answer #2 · answered by jinx4swag 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Virus Protection software such as Norton that expire in a given amount of time, expire in that given amount of time. If your Virus Protection has a 15day trial, it's going to expire in 15 days irregardless of the year you set your computer to. The programs aren't set to go by year, but rather day. It's going to count 15 days(in hours), and then expire.
Whether the date is the same day over and over, or if you keep resetting your time, it's not going to extend the length of the program, seeing as though it doesn't run on 15 days according to your computers time set, it runs off of hours - 360.
For every 24 hours from which you've downloaded it, it counts 1 day. In this case, it's going to count every 24 hours as 1 day for however long your trial lasts.
2006-06-12 18:56:48 · answer #3 · answered by Alley S. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I've heard is that if a software is set to expire in 30 days and you set your clock/calendar BACK it will continue to work. I don't know if its true or not.
2006-06-12 18:53:31 · answer #4 · answered by themainsail 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its possible to set the time back,but keep in mind most trial dont enable all the features.Most antivirus programs can be had at affordable prices,so why hack one?
2006-06-12 19:01:43 · answer #5 · answered by tanker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
forget all that hassle......just download any full version anti-virus from a torrent site.
2006-06-12 18:54:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've heard that and tried it once. it didn't work for me
try avg it's free
2006-06-12 18:53:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats fake. just check it out on snopes.com
2006-06-12 18:52:59 · answer #8 · answered by tiakat333 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um...Not that I've heard of.
2006-06-12 18:55:09 · answer #9 · answered by Sarah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow but its scary maybe it will have encrypted files or soething....
2006-06-12 18:54:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋