Activating and Updating your Anti-Virus regularly is necessary to identify and protect your system against those thousands of new viruses/worms or malicious sites/links etc. that has been created or identified after the version of Anti-virus you are using was released. All this information is included in the Virus Signature Database that your Anti-virus needs to keep up-to-date.
Here are few simple guidelines on Activating ESET Nod32 Anti-Virus and Updating it’s “virus signature database”
Activating Anti-Virus
Step 1:
Open your ESET Nod32 Anti-Virus and click on Setup:Step 2:
Go to Product activation..Step 3:
Select Activate using a Username and Password and click Next:Step 4:
Enter Username and Password and click Activate button.Step 5:
Wait for a few seconds until ESET Nod32 verifies and activates your Anti-Virus.Step 6:
Your ESET Nod32 Anti-Virus has been successfully activated now :)After activations just click on Finish button to get out of activation wizard.
Updating Virus Signature Database
Step 7:
Now to Activate the Virus Signature Database, Go to Update and click on “Update now” buttonStep 8:
Now wait and let it check for the latest update available.Step 9:
After checking for the latest update, ESET Nod32 Anti-Virus will start updating the database, this may take a few minutes, depending on your connection speed,you can minimize the window while it’s updating the database, a Green spinning icon in the notification area shows that It’s updating.
Step 10:
When update has completed a small notification balloon will appear on the bottom-right corner of the screen.As you can see the icon in the notification are has also changed.
That’s It! you have Activated and updated your ESET Nod32 Anti-Virus successfully.