Norton 360V3 subscription expires and disables all protection?

When did Norton start disabling all the features when your subscription expires.  I understand that until it is renewed you should not receive updates but the virus protection should conitnue to protect you against viruses it already knows about.  That and it has disabled all the other features like back up identity protection, pc security.  All features are disabled and cannot be reactivated as they are greyed out.  I was planning on renewing but by buying a packaged version from the store not renewing online.  So until i can get to a store my PC is completely unprotected!!!  What the heck is this anyway, disabling software you paid for!!! UNREAL!!!