{"id":12364,"date":"2016-06-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=12364"},"modified":"2019-11-15T06:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:56:21","slug":"protect-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/protect-a-friend\/12364\/","title":{"rendered":"How you can make the Internet more secure \u2014 and get Kaspersky Internet Security free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Access to the account of <i>any<\/i> user is a matter of interest for hackers. Even if the owners have never shared their credit card numbers or PINs in direct messages, the account can be used for other frauds: to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/world-cup-woes-dont-be-conned-by-spammers-and-scammers-this-summer\/3972\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">send<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/world-cup-woes-dont-be-conned-by-spammers-and-scammers-this-summer\/3972\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">spam<\/a> and viruses or to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/skype-fraud-story\/8043\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">steal victims\u2019 friends\u2019 money<\/a>. That\u2019s why you should make sure the PCs of your relatives and friends are protected as thoroughly as your own devices are.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes your friends\u2019 security depends on you as much as on them. Fortunately, Kaspersky Lab has the solution. Users from Brazil, Germany, France, India, Italy, Latin America, South Africa, and Turkey can take part in our Protect a Friend promotion. Join the program to share a reliable security solution with your friends and get a free 180-day license for Kaspersky Internet Security \u2014 Multi-Device.<\/p>\n<p>To take part, just <a href=\"https:\/\/my.kaspersky.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">join My Kaspersky<\/a> (it won\u2019t take more than a minute), copy an affiliate link from your profile, and share it with friends in direct messages (or post it on your social network page). A small bonus: Licenses received from friends last longer by half than our standard trial version \u2014 they can use it for 45 days.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes even one person can make a big difference. Tell your friends how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/ransomware-study-2016\/12194\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">dangerous ransomware<\/a> is, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/dangerous-public-wi-fi\/10774\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">what\u2019s wrong with public Wi-Fi<\/a> and how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/ransomware-protection-video\/8765\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">reliable antivirus protects you<\/a> from those and many other cyberthreats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of the Protect a Friend campaign, users can share an extended trial with their friends and get Kaspersky Internet Security free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":522,"featured_media":12365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[180,522,1669,97,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-12364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-products","8":"category-tips","9":"tag-kaspersky-internet-security","10":"tag-products-2","11":"tag-promo","12":"tag-security-2","13":"tag-tips"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/protect-a-friend\/12364\/"},{"hreflang":"es-mx","url":"https:\/\/latam.kaspersky.com\/blog\/protect-a-friend\/7268\/"},{"hreflang":"it","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.it\/blog\/protect-a-friend\/8387\/"},{"hreflang":"ru","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.ru\/blog\/protect-a-friend\/12223\/"},{"hreflang":"tr","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.tr\/blog\/protect-a-friend\/2196\/"},{"hreflang":"fr","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.fr\/blog\/protect-a-friend\/5758\/"},{"hreflang":"pt-br","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.br\/blog\/protect-a-friend\/6355\/"},{"hreflang":"de","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.de\/blog\/protect-a-friend\/8019\/"},{"hreflang":"ru-kz","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.kz\/protect-a-friend\/12223\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/protect-a-friend\/12364\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/protect-a-friend\/12364\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/tips\/","name":"tips"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30244,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364\/revisions\/30244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}