Doomsday for Norton on Vista and XP?

[Vistaar]

On March 1, the following post appeared stating that May 22, 2024 would be the end of life for Norton on Windows XP and Vista:

https://community.norton.com/en/for...-windows-xp-windows-vista-and-windows-7-sp0-3

I only know of one person who might be directly affected by this: @wither 3. I suppose he will continue to pay for 6-year-old Malwarebytes Premium 3.5.1, but this might be a good time to discuss other remaining options for Vista.

Personally, I ran Vista for 12 years without ever once paying a dime for security software. The last antivirus I used was Avast Free 18.8. Other free options would include Kaspersky 18 and even Microsoft Security Essentials 4.4.304.0 (the last version without a time bomb for XP/Vista). It is astonishing to me that Microsoft is still providing signatures for MSE in 2024, and no one knows how long they will continue - but that’s also true of the remaining third-party options. MSE signature updates are signed with SHA-2, so Imacri will never recommend MSE for Vista (but advanced Vista users know there is a solution for that problem).

 

[wither 3]

Yeh, they discontinued it for Vista. That didn't stop them from renewing it for $128 for 5 devices. That included every extra they had. Take away the extras, and they wanted $49. Got the same thing at Newegg for $16.
Malwarebytes keeps updating my definitions so, I'm good with it.