Kaspersky closing the Free version

[Jotapelb]

Excellent text bob77... I've been using Kaspersky since it was just called KAV, in 2000... it's been 25 years... I personally use the Kaspersky Small Office version, but I recommended Free to my clients because I'm in Brazil, here the economic situation is complicated and many always run to free solutions and end up going for popular but terrible antivirus... I completely agree with you that the conversion rate could be much higher and, personally, I don't stop believing in them, but for me I'm still undecided whether or not to recommend their domestic solution based on the premise that they abandoned the product without giving satisfaction... What happened in the USA may be regrettable and is very questionable, but we are talking about people from all over the world, which is not the USA. Anyway, the only way to wait is to wait.I was looking for information and I'm following it here. I registered just to say that I was also worried about the situation... I didn't want it to be discontinued, but I thought it was disrespectful not to have any information.

[brambedkar59]

Cmon K, don't do this to me. 🥲

[harlan4096]

I guess KFree already installed will continue getting updates...

[brambedkar59]

4 minutes ago, harlan4096 said:

I guess KFree already installed will continue getting updates...

But the question is will the subscription automatically renew or not?

[harlan4096]

Of course, I can't answer to that now, we'll see in the upcoming months...

[Manic Man]

Yanks are weird.. look at the state they are in the last few years..

but it's very annoying that Kaspersky did the roll-out of the notification.. then it stopped.. then the website issue.. and still no press statement and I can't see much press even looking into it.. not that tech press is anything but a giant advert since.. well.. the 90s really.

 

End of the day, the Kaspersky lab gets tons of high scores all the time for anti-virial and malware detection levels. Though personally, I do think Government systems should be better secured then having to just use a AV... tech world has gone down hill.. hell, even closed systems seam to use public internet connections.. which defeats the point of a closed system ¬_¬ (being English, This is more a reference to some major UK 'leaks/hacks' over the past few years)