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From: Bob Villa on 26 Jun 2010 08:10
On Jun 26, 1:54 am, "D. Ohl" <d...(a)Use-Author-Supplied-
Address.invalid> wrote:
> Is there a way to get the email address out of an Avast installation that
> was used for the free registration?
>
> As always, I used a made-up email address for the Avast home edition 4.8
> registration and now that my Avast has expired, I can just make up a new
> email address or use the old one.
>
> Only I forgot which old one I used that I made up.
>
> Since it's getting harder to create email addresses (gmail requires a phone
> number for example), is there a way to get out of my Avast installation the
> email address used for the free registration?

This may be of use: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Browser-Tweak/BugMeNot.shtml
From: s|b on 26 Jun 2010 08:20
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:54:19 +0000 (UTC), D. Ohl wrote:

> As always, I used a made-up email address for the Avast home edition 4.8
> registration and now that my Avast has expired, I can just make up a new
> email address or use the old one.

Support for avast! Home Edition 4.8 is probably going to stop within a
few months. Why don't you upgrade to avast! Free Antivirus 5.x ? IIRC no
e-mailaddress is required for registration.

> Since it's getting harder to create email addresses (gmail requires a phone
> number for example), is there a way to get out of my Avast installation the
> email address used for the free registration?

I use a free domain from cjb.net. It allows you to use 'catchall'
addresses which can be forwarded to your 'real' mail.

For instance, if I want to register at example.com I use this address:
example.com@[domainname].cjb.net

If I get spam on that address, then I know it's from example.com.

The domain name at cjb.net is free and the only thing you have to do is
keep it alive (for a period of 90 days and cjb.net will send you an
e-mail to remind you).

Unfortunately, some websites (like facebook.com) refuse a cjb.net
address.

--
s|b
From: starwars on 26 Jun 2010 08:56
plus tard dans la journ�e Man-wai Chang ecrit:

>> I remember a website mentioned by a recent issue of PC World:
>>
>> http://www.guerrillamail.com/
>
> But then, why do you refuse to use your email address to register
> freewares?
>
> Are you afraid of online curses? :)
>

YOU'VE BEEN TROLLED :)

From: VanguardLH on 26 Jun 2010 11:28
D. Ohl wrote:

> Is there a way to get the email address out of an Avast installation that
> was used for the free registration?
>
> As always, I used a made-up email address for the Avast home edition 4.8
> registration and now that my Avast has expired, I can just make up a new
> email address or use the old one.
>
> Only I forgot which old one I used that I made up.
>
> Since it's getting harder to create email addresses (gmail requires a phone
> number for example), is there a way to get out of my Avast installation the
> email address used for the free registration?

Uninstall Avast. Download again (if you no longer have it). Do another
install. This time just use another disposable e-mail address.

Instead of making them up, why not use an alias? Sneakemail (no longer
free) and Spamgourmet (free) are a couple ways of generating e-mail
aliases rather than doling out your true e-mail account to unknown or
untrusted recipients. I used to use Sneakemail until they stopped being
free and then moved to Spamgourmet. With Spamgourmet, you don't even
have to log into your account to create another alias. You can create
them on the fly at the time you need them. You can set the default
number of usages for an alias (as a configurable option in your account
or even within the alias itself) after which any further e-mails get
"eaten" (discarded). You can add a note to an alias (by logging into
your account and updating an alias); however, aliases don't actually
exist until the first time that someone tries to send an e-mail to it.
Besides your username, you can define up to a 20-character alias so you
can usually include enough info in the alias to know to whom you gave
it. I usually add a couple digits from the current date so I can issue
another alias later to the same recipient should I want to let them
contact me again later. The headers are setup so when you reply to an
aliased e-mail that your reply goes back through their server, they
strip out your e-mail provider's headers, put in their own headers, and
ensure your aliased e-mail address gets seen by the other party (so you
don't reveal your true e-mail address in a reply which happens when you
simply use a forwarding service).
From: D. Ohl on 27 Jun 2010 07:40
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:42:18 +0800, Man-wai Chang wrote:

> http://www.guerrillamail.com/

Thanks for the free-email hint but that isn't really the problem.

Plus, that particular solution won't work because, IIRC, Avast! doesn't
generally respond for a day or so, so, the 60-min expiry of that particular
email site will prevent the legitimate Avast mail from coming through.

The problem is finding the email address that was used.

Of course, I could just start with a NEW email address (not guerilla mail,
but something that lasts at least a few days so as to ensure receipt of the
Avast registration).

But, that isn't the question: The question is how to find out the EXISTING
email address used for the existing installation.
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