ESET product

ESET Windows home products

Product version

Versions 12.2 and below

End of Life date

October 2020

ESET product

ESET Windows home products

Product version

Versions 13.0, 13.1

End of Life date

Based on the product version

ESET product issue

SHA-1 certificate expiration

End of Life date

December 2020 (some products expired January 27, 2020)

Details

ESET has obtained replacement certificates to sign binaries of its Windows products because both ESET’s SHA-1 and SHA-256 code signing certificates are expiring in a short time.

Operating systems or ESET products without SHA-2 support will no longer update modules, including the detection engine, ultimately making your ESET product not fully functional and unable to provide sufficient protection.

For more information, refer to the How to resolve incompatibility issues with your operating system section of the ESET Smart Security Premium Online Help guide.

Operating system

Windows Vista

End of Life date

April 11, 2017

Details

Windows Vista is no longer supported by Microsoft.

ESET product issue

Legacy products startup issue

End of Life date

February 7, 2020

Details

ESET has identified that our kernel has a problem with verification of the timestamp of an already expired certificate (expired by 7th Feb 2020). This method fails and our modules in older, legacy versions, are declared as untrusted and therefore are not loaded. This mechanism ensures that no untrusted library is loaded.

As a result, the affected versions fail to load modules (Firewall, HIPS, Update, Device Control, Web and Email protection) and are not functional, therefore the protection is not functional.

For more information, refer to the ESET Knowledgebase article.