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HNS Software Contest - Panda Antivirus Platinum
What do I have to do?
You have to write an article related to the subject of computer viruses: stories of infection and what you did to beat the virus, your opinion on viruses, virus writers, antivirus tools, etc.
The article has to be at least 4000 characters long.
After you're done just drop the article in TXT, HTML or PDF format to articles@net-security.org. There is no limit on the amount of articles a partecipant can send. Please include your full name and address with the submission.
The contest is open until April 13th 00:00 CET.
This contest is open to everyone, however the article has to be written in English. We will not take into consideration materials written in other languages.
By sending the article to us you declare that the article is your original work and you grant us the permission to publish it in our Articles section upon the end of the contest.
What do I win?
The authors of the best 3 articles will each get 1 copy of Panda Antivirus Platinum.
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