We have shared many giveaways here on iTechGiz including software’s, antivirus, applications etc but it is rare to find a giveaway related to the most popular antivirus called Kaspersky, but luckily today we have found an exciting promotion in action which provides you Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 with Free 1 complete year valid license code.

The promotion is being held by Beijing Kaspersky Technology that was started from 4th November 2010 and will continue to be in action up till 3rd December 2010 just, one day before my birthday

Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 is the best protection for you to be on the web with it, you are always under constant protection while surfing the web. No matter you are working, making some online payments, shopping or playing online you and your family is under safe zone. as Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 categorizes your presence on the web under Green secure zone.

Let me remind you that Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 costs $59.95, so here is a golden chance to grab a free protection security for your PC. You have to follow a couple of steps to grab this amazing offer :

Step 1: Navigate to the promotion page.

Step 2: Enter you email address in the two boxes shown below.

Note: The content on the website is in Chinese language, so for better understanding i have translated it into English with the help of Google translator.

Step 3: Now enter the CAPTCHA shown in the box and click on the button to proceed.

Step 4: After clicking the button your next page will display your 1 year license code, Copy it down and save in a file.

Step 5: Next you have to Download KIS 2011 Chinese version, install the software and activate it using the the code you have just copied. You must activate your license code within 7 days after receiving or else it will expire.  

Note: The license code only works with the Chinese version of KIS 2011. You must download the Chinese version from the link provided above and activate it within 7 days of receiving.

How to convert KIS 2011 from Chinese version to English ?

As the promotion was from Beijing so obviously it was in their respective language, so here is another trick to change the downloaded Chinese version of KIS 2011 to English, follow the steps below:

Step 1: After installing and activating your Kaspersky Internet Security 2011, restart your computer under Safe Mode.

Step 2: When your computer is in Safe Mode, open registry editor from Run command by typing ‘regedit’ (without quotes) and navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREKasperskyLabprotectedAVP11environment

Step 3: Under environment, choose one of the 2 provided options below:

Step 3a: Find out key ‘SkinSwitchDisabled’ and then modify its value Value data by 1 to 0 through right-clicking and choose Modify. Alter the value by 1 to 0 in the Value data box, click OK.

Step 3b: Find out key ‘Localization’ and so exchange its value by the Value data to en from sch by right-clicking and select Modify. Click Ok.

Step 4: Now Restart your computer in a normal mode.

Step 5: If your choice was Step 3a was, then after restarting your computer in normal mode, launch Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 and press Shift + F12 to change the interface to English.

via Raymond