Kaspersky Free will be discontinued?

[sidneyfmn]

I have been using Kaspersky Free for years because it is light weight compared to Bitdefender. But I read in here and on Reddit that it will be discontinued. It is this true? I can't the Kaspersky Free link anymore, only behind My Kaspersky account.

[Flood and Flood's wife]

10 hours ago, sidneyfmn said:

I have been using Kaspersky Free for years because it is light weight compared to Bitdefender. But I read in here and on Reddit that it will be discontinued. It is this true? I can't the Kaspersky Free link anymore, only behind My Kaspersky account.

Hello @sidneyfmn, 

Welcome back!

Yes, it appears to be true, however, officially Kaspersky are not saying much about it - our formal enquiry in July 2025 - received this response from the Kaspersky expert team: 

"...regrettably, no details regarding Kaspersky Free that we could share at the moment. There is also no official statement."

• Reading thru some of the posts in the Russian section it may be possible to install the trial version, when that expires it switches to Free - we don't know if this is correct, we haven't tested it & we're not going to - Kaspersky could make a simple statement - not too much to ask. 

Additionally, the experts have today responded to an outstanding KFA document update request from March, 2024, as follows:

"No fixes are planned as KFA Help is no longer updated. This is a free product without support."

Which, ioo doesn't make sense bc KFA has *always* been a free product, without support, that didn't stop Kaspersky expert documentation team from keeping the doco current - in the past🤦‍♂️. 

Thank you🙏
Flood🐳+🐋

Edited 16 hours ago by Flood and Flood's wife
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[harlan4096]

Also, the KFree already installed products are still auto-updating to the new 21.22a version.

[Berny]

Also , the link  https://www.kaspersky.com/free-antivirus   is now offering the Kaspersky Standard trial version :

→ " Keep your devices safe with free antivirus – try it for 30 days "

[harlan4096]

Still, You can find KFree 21.21 (probably global installer in English), if You perform a search in InterNet.

[sidneyfmn]

Thanks for the answers.