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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