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Evcery time I input my email and click on “GET HEIMDAL PRO FREE FOR 1 YEAR” button, ( both with and without the box for auto renewal that is checked by default) I’m taken to a page that says I have to pay 44.00 USD and demands all of my credit card information! NOT LIKELY!!
[@not free] The offer expired several hours earlier than posted. The “voucher” that was to be applied was “sosgiveaway16” but it will tell you that that voucher has expired. Not saying you are missing much, I have tried to test their software the last couple of times it has been offered (not just at SOS) but have NEVER been able to activate properly. I even went through several weeks (yes, weeks) of email correspondence with their customer/technical support before giving up. What was humorous is that the extended the license term (and made it a family multi-device) for me due to the inconvenience, which does absolutely no good since the key was always rejected on every computer tested.
The is a similar free produce that monitors & keeps software updated/patched called “Secunia PSI” which I do recommend. It does not provide malware scanning though.
Still 3 hours left before the deal ends and it is asking for $44 for one year, so it is NOT free, no giveaway, it is a scam! Even if it MIGHT give it for free at the next step, the key is not shown upon filling out the form but it asks for your credit card details, which I did not fill out of course. You can never trust these subscription deals. I am sure they would eventually charge my card, maybe even after a week, not a year. These people are crooks. Avoid them.
Not a review as yet, so please ignore the (required) rating, but one thing I would need to know before trying this out: exactly WHAT does it auto-update and WHEN, and can you configure settings to control that ? Some MS updates for W7 or W8 — which keep getting re-released and returning to your update queue, *even if you hide them* — sneakily try to “upgrade” your OS to W10, whether you wanted that or not. (One way to block that is with GWX Control Panel.) Some other MS updates have trashed a few of my computers on various occasions, rendering them unbootable and requiring a complete restore from earlier backup images I had made — and this is **not** a rare or isolated occurrence either, if you bother to research it online. When that happens, it tends to be a major pain in the rear. So, I have naturally become quite wary of anything that wants to do auto-updates.
Don’t know what this program was exactly doing. After installation and registration, couldn’t get into the internet any longer. Deinstallation of the program deleted the Pro version, but the Free version remained. Needed to deinstall this Free version in a second deinstallation action. Internet works now, but the e-mail program does not connect to the server any longer. I’m on Win7 64-bit and strongly recommend to create a restore point manually – before trying this program.
[@Gene] Hi Gene! Heimdal doesn’t install Windows updates. It keeps up-to-date 3rd party apps like Adobe Shockwave, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash Plugin, Chrome, Firefox, Skype, and many more. Vulnerabilities found in outdated apps are exploited by cyber criminals and used in more than 65% of attacks.
The automatic & silent updating feature is complemented by Heimdal’s traffic filtering and the traffic-based malware detection engines, ensuring multi-layered proactive protection against second generation online threats.
Indeed, the offer ended earlier, we’re looking into the problem regarding the voucher code.
I’ve already contacted the SharewareOnSale staff to send you two the free license keys, along with my apologies for the issue.[@Fed up visitor] Thanks for the replies. It sounds like I was saved some time, effort, and aggravation by not installing, then having to uninstall and scour the registry to get rid of a software of undesirable/questionable usability and trustworthiness.
