So I asked for and received a refund (based on their money back guarantee), and went back to Bitdefender Free.

The installation was not customizable enough to suit me, and if I disabled any of the included protection modules, it endlessly nagged me that I was at risk. I upgraded from Bitdefender Free to the paid Bitdefender last year and was surprised by the amount of bloat added to protect every helpless end user from themselves approach. I just received an offer for a 100% discount on Bitdefender Total Security All existing Sophos Home Free accounts (that switched to Free before November 11th 2021), worldwide will retain their Sophos Home Free license with all of the existing features, including protection for up to three PC and/or Mac devices. After 30-days, the free trial license will end, and users may purchase Sophos Home Premium on a subscription basis. Sophos has made a business decision to change its Sophos Home Free option to a 30-day free trial for Sophos Home Premium. So I am testing Avast Free as a replacement at the moment. As in no more protection at all! But a license is available for purchase!

I setup Sophos Home Trial on 12/12, so that it would revert to free mode after the free 30 day trial.Then I manually “expired” the trial today. But Win 7 needs a 3rd party solution, unless complete network isolation is an option. If you are running at least Windows 10, I highly recommend Windows Defender. Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, or Windows 10 minimum 1 GB of free disk space, minimum 1 GB of RAM. I am looking into Sophos Home Free, and will give it a try. So now I am searching for a replacement AV for Bitdefender Free that is supported on Win 7. This PC could be updated to Win 10 Pro and Defender, but everything runs so well as is, not sure if I want to rock the boat and/or obsolete some old software. Also auto image once a week with Macrium Reflect. I have been keeping it protected with Bitdefender Free. Don’t generally use the web browser and internet on this PC, except for updating software and connecting to mainstream game portals or major TV networks. My main PC is a modern, up-to-date PC with Windows 10 Pro, running Windows Defender.īut I still have 1 PC running Win 7 Pro in the living room as a media center for some gaming and recording TV shows via a PVR backend and Kodi. Choices include switching to the paid BD Total Security moving to a different paid or free product that still supports Windows 7: or discontinuing the use of Windows 7 in an Internet-connected PC. That EOL Policy page didn’t yet say anything about Windows 7 support when I checked it, but the handwriting is on the wall: If you use BD Free, or if you recommend it to your Windows 7 customers, you (we) have some decisions to make by the end of the year. Please check the Bitdefender End of Life Policy page for updates on when we will stop providing support for Windows operating systems. After reminding the reader that Microsoft stops supporting Windows 7 on January 14, 2020, the company states the following:īitdefender will continue to provide antimalware support to Windows 7 users for the next 24 months. While researching the topic, I also found this information regarding BD support for Windows 7. The email goes on to say that BD “will continue to offer tech support for our Free Edition until 30th of June 2022.” However, it doesn’t specify whether BD Free will continue to receive virus definition updates after January 1, and I wouldn’t necessarily assume that it will.īD is offering a special price of $9.98 (covering 5 devices) for the first year of the paid product BD Total Security, until December 31. Important news for those who have been using Bitdefender Free: I have received an email from Bitdefender stating the following:Īs of 1st of January 2022, Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition will officially be discontinued and no longer available for use.īarely three weeks’ advance warning before BD Free users have to make important choices regarding their online security.

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