Bitdefender Anti Virus?

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Is this still worth running? I see that AV-Comparatives' tests are all with BitDefender Internet Security which costs money and likely adds more protection, but what do I miss out on with the AV? Spyware protection?

 

[John Connor]

I just use Bitdefender Free. It won't get rid of spyware. maybe some, but I scan downloads at Virustotal and also use Sandboxie. Of course when you install something be sure to use custom install.

 

[PliotronX]

Really just the firewall is missing I would think which is more an annoyance than a security enhancement really. The AV part will keep the nasties off but toolbars and whatnot may still make it on.

 

[Zahid Iqbal]

Bit Defender is no longer recommended. Just use KasperSky paid and Avast Free

 

[MustISO]

Bit Defender is no longer recommended. Just use KasperSky paid and Avast Free

No longer recommended by who? Unless you have evidence to back up that statement it holds little value.

BitDefender still does very well on 3rd party testing. I run in on one of my systems and it works great. I also like Avira free and Avast.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388652,00.asp
https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/
http://www.av-comparatives.org/real-world-protection-test-march-june-2015/

 

[PliotronX]

Bit Defender is no longer recommended. Just use KasperSky paid and Avast Free

Avast over BitDefender...

 

[John Connor]

Bit Defender is no longer recommended. Just use KasperSky paid and Avast Free

Caspersky, I read was releasing malware.

Bitdefender Free has been good to me. Light weight and cloud based.

 

[BirdDad]

Bitdefender(paid) kept making my computer crash every time the network would go down, I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[balloonshark]

QUOTE=John Connor;37636882]Caspersky, I read was releasing malware.
[/QUOTE]
If you want to believe two "former employees" who want to remain anonymous.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/14/us-kaspersky-rivals-idUSKCN0QJ1CR20150814

 

[KeithP]

Caspersky, I read was releasing malware.

If you want to believe two "former employees" who want to remain anonymous.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/14/us-kaspersky-rivals-idUSKCN0QJ1CR20150814

And even if true, it wasn't malware. They were gaming malware definitions to trip up companies that they felt were using their definitions improperly.

-KeithP

 

[Sabrewings]

I went Kaspersky total security this year and don't plan on looking back.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I used Bitdefender Anti Virus 2015 (paid) for a trial and it was really bloaty. The free version seems to be the best but you cant tell it to not automatically try to fix files. It tried "fixing" a false positive and ended up destroying the file. Fail. Why not auto quarrantine only?

 

[John Connor]

It does auto quarantine.

 

[PliotronX]

It does auto quarantine.

Some people's kids, right?

At least with the paid version, disabling heuristics speeds it up significantly and should eliminate false positives. Their heuristic engine is very aggressive; several of the clients at work are managed by BD's cloud management Gravity Zone and the heuristics (a.k.a. Active Virus Control) has caused a lot of headaches with third party software that *acts* like a virus (requires Windows Firewall and UAC to be disabled - awesome!!).

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

It does auto quarantine.

It does most of the time, but it tried automatically fixing a file once and it destroyed the file. Oh well.

 

[nemesismk2]

does BitDefender even work with windows xp because i tried it out and it didn't work at all for me so switched to a different anti virus?

 

[PliotronX]

does BitDefender even work with windows xp because i tried it out and it didn't work at all for me so switched to a different anti virus?

Runs on every XP machine I've installed it upon; both the free version and Security Endpoint.

 

[Zahid Iqbal]

I use KasperSky 2015 and It is always best for me.

 

[John Connor]

does BitDefender even work with windows xp because i tried it out and it didn't work at all for me so switched to a different anti virus?

Yes, with SP3. Don't count on it working on a netbook though. Too slow. I use Immunet on my netbook ("kitchen kiosk.")

Also note you may have trouble logging in with Bitdefender Free. I had to update IE to IE 8 as Bitdefender Free uses IE to log in with its app. I don't use IE though.