cheme75

fwiw - I hope the powers that be listen and go back to offering a totally free install with an OPT-IN for any trials. The recent 3.x update uninstalled my bitdefender free completely, so when I went to disable the trial version, I ended up with nothing. Then re-installing Bitdefender free removed malwarebytes - its frankly no longer worth the hassle to have this as a "second opinion" manual scan option. I used to really appreciate having the free version to double check on downloads and whatnot. Now being forced to accept the trial, go through the hassles for trying to get the free only option and resultant snafus, it simply is not worth the effort. Let me know when a free only version comes back and I'll give it a try. This is really sad. From trying Avira, Avast, AVG, Panda, Bitdefender, etc - none have offered a free product as difficult as this one.

fwiw - took a break from fussing with this since all is fine using bitdefender free, but I have a laptop with an older MBfree 2.x that I use for travel. Went to run an on demand scan and it said I had to update to the latest - so let it install the 3.x update - big pain is that it didn't find that I had only the free version setup for manual scanning. It uninstalled bitdefender and set itself up as a 14 day trial. I turned off the trial but it had already uninstalled bitdefender - royal pain! when I reinstalled bit defender it removed MB 3.x. This sucks - I really liked having the option to run MB free manually as a second opinion. Are we now SOL on that option? is there a free version without the trial?

Well, no joy... tried reinstall but i didn’t see ability to avoid free trial. Same issues reappeared - uninstalled and all is well again. Looks like I need to clean out registry before reinstall - big pain and no time right now. Will try again later on. Maybe after the next version is released.

I'll try tomorrow and see how it behaves, I'll do the trial disable right at the start and then reboot and report back. FWIW, I had same issue with an Avast update - guess they added web protection to the free AV and it broke my yahoo and some others as well - tried everything, uninstall was the only thing that worked. Using bitdefender free now and it seems ok - got a false positive on my Chase web site phishing attempt but so far all others are ok.

Oddly, I just installed the latest MB since I like to have the free version just to run manual scans periodically - but the latest, also started the 14 day trial for the full version - suddenly I could not access my yahoo home page or a handful of other sites that I usually use like google news, yahoo finance, even gmail. I did an uninstall and all are working fine again. Before I did the uninstall, I tried turning of web protection, but it didn't help - I did not reboot until after the uninstall. Would it work if I had tried a reboot after turning off the web protection? If I disable the free 14 day trial, will that solve the web blocking?