very easy, you don't even need a VPN, during the initial activation, it will ask you for the customer name, and email address, then the country, if you select the correct country (ie. Afghanistan in this case) then the activation will work regardless of the geographical IP address of the computer. I know this because I work for a computer reseller in California and our ESET distributor is in Dubai. We have to select the region as UAE and then the activation iwill work and is permanent regar