Is it a limited time key to activate AV or not? How much time is valid?

[@Blackhawk]
Yes the key must be used before the giveaway is over. “You must redeem the license key before this offer has ended” I have tried using a few other giveaway keys, with the same disclaimer to use before the offer expiry, and a few did work but many did not. Do not chance it.

“NANO” is a gargantuan 1-GIGABYTE program – oh, the irony.

And Russian at that – oh, the iron-curtainy. ( Noe the misspellings on their English language web pages. )

I remember when US Central Point Software Anti Virus arrived on ONE floppy diskette, and we could boot from it, even!

I’m thrilled at all the work being done by everyone on antimalware, but … until someone builds an intelligent wall against phishing, then the end-user will still pick up their phone and call the 800-number on screen, think they are talking to Microsoft, and whip out their credit cards, an hand over the keys to their credit, bank accounts, and life-savings.

No matter how many locks we put on the door, if someone opens the door and lets a thief in, then they are doomed no matter how strong the locks are, even 1-GIGABYTE locks.

Does NANO do anything special to protect users from themselves?

I may read reviews, but dumping 1-GIGABYTE into my computers on a whim would be crazy – their “free” ( not free ) version lands a 10 KB installer, at least that’s courteous, but it immediately downloads the essentially same 1-GIGABYTE, and offers a 30-day trial, this is reported to be a 200-day trial, then reverting to what, nothing, not even a free “nano-NANO” mini version?

Oddly enough, after downloading and installing 1-GIGABYTE, the first thing it does is … download additional updates, watching it trickle down makes me think it may be an hour or longer, it’s showing a download rate of 1 Mb/s.

It complains about other anti-malware products, even though I am not running any, but it sees these even though I have them turn off and use them only on demand, then turn them off again and reboot:
– Microsoft Security Essentials
– SecureAPlus Antivirus

It asks if we want file and web guard, but there’s no explanation, or promise we can toggle them off later – apparently we’d need to reinstall completely to change these features.

NANO versus 1-GIGABYTE.

Steve Gibson, Small Is Beautiful machine-language programmer at [ GRC. com ], shakes his head.

Me, too.

This did an “Express scan” for an hour to scan 14 GB out of 700 GB, so … it promises to take 50 hours to scan the rest of the data?

Is it uploading everything to cloud servers in Moscow?

Maybe I’ll just use my computers to run this kind of perpetual self-maintenance utility, and I’ll go back to writing and communicating on paper with no computers, because, hey, my computers are busy!

And, ANY Russian product must prove that they are NOT letting Putin be their marketing representative ( same for China and Xi Jinping ).

Recommendation: redesign it to be NANO mini-modules, each submittable to VirusTotal so we can check these programs to raise our confidence, have it start small, or at least explain the inordinate size so we understand – thanks.
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