Sunday, June 24, 2012

Can't activate Antivirus

Every once in a while, you are faced with a vexing problem where you try all sorts of solutions only to find that the most effective was so fiendishly simple, you wonder why you didn't even try it first.

I have a client who bought a McAfee Antivirus Plus product and we were tasked with installing and updating it into his laptop. Installing is a snap and the laptop more than meets the system requirements of the Antivirus. As with many retail software these days, you have to register and activate the Antivirus in order for it to work beyond the grace period given to you. This is where the problem came in.