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Security Cloud Free install lasted a whole day ...then it upgraded to Kaspersky Free. For now Pause Protection and Settings work in the context menu.

I have installed Kaspersky Free and now installed Kaspersky Security Cloud Free. Pause protection now works in the trey context-menu. However, I wonder for how long ...untill software upgrades to Kaspersky Free (as last time)

Also Security Cloud Free can not be installed on top of Kaspersky Free, because SCF version is lower (21.3) then KF (21.7).

EU (Slovenia)

Can you be so kind and provide a download line where I can get Kaspersky Free. Web page (https://www.kaspersky.com/free-antivirus) only offers Kaspersky Security Cloud Free option.

Recently Pause protection and Settings options were disabled in the trey icon context menu. Restoring the settings to default and restarting the computer did not help ....both remain greyed-out. This has happened before and at that time I had to uninstall Kaspersky Free. I then installed Kaspersky Cloud Security Free, which has recently updated to Kaspersky Free ....under Kaspersky Cloud Security Free this grey-out never happened and I have been using Kaspersky Cloud Security Free for a few years until the recent upgrade/update to Kaspersky Free .

And today after the computer was shut down for the night both, Pause protection and Settings are disabled in the trey icon context menu. Restoring the settings to default and restarting the computer does not help ....both remain greyed-out. This has happened before and at that time I had to uninstall Kaspersky Free, and then reinstalled Kaspersky Cloud Security Free, which has recently updated to Kaspersky Free ....under Kaspersky Cloud Security Free this grey-out never happened and I have been using it for a few years now.

Same after restart with another update (2022-09 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 for x64-based Systems (KB5017383))

Tried today to install update (2022-09 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.8 and 4.8.1 for Windows 11 for x64 (KB5017859)). Install error on 1st try. Restored setting in Kaspersky - after than install error again. After pausing the protection it installed OK.

Ok, I will try once another such windows update comes along. It's just annoying to pause protection when such update is blocked (few years ago I used Avast and it worked ok, with Kaspersky this was always an issue)

Yes, version is 21.7.7.393(a). So it all ok. Thank you very much for the info.

Slovenia (EU)

My Kaspersky Security Cloud Free recently updated to Kaspersky Free. Is this ok? What are the differences between these products?

Recently my Kaspersky Security Cloud Free updated to Kaspersky Free. As was the case with Security Cloud Free the Kasperky Free also blocks Windows Updates from installing. I can install several (not all) Windows updates only after pausing protection. How can configure the settings to allow installing Windows updates? This happened with Windows 10 as well as now with Windows 11.