BitDefender free and?

[c0ltran3]

I'm very fond of BitDefender free and I think it's a very good antivirus, but I noticed it has got some weakness. So I tryed another AV to use with BD to reduce the failures.
I tryed Panda, CA etrust, Command and Avast and I had no great improvements.
To my surprise my best result was using BD + Antivir PE.
i'm not a tester and so this is only my own experience. Have you got any advice or different experience?
Thanks.

[Paul Wilders]

I'll take it, you only use just one running resident - other one(s) on demand?

regards.

paul

[c0ltran3]

{QUOTE-> I'll take it, you only use just one running resident - other one(s) on demand?

regards.

paul <-QUOTE}

Yes, i use only a resident AV.

[Paul Wilders]

{QUOTE-> Yes, i use only a resident AV. <-QUOTE}

Just making sure - I wouldn't like to see a user running into trouble because of running more then one resident ones at the same time :)

regards.

paul

[hokhost]

Hi,

What are the weaknesses you spotted on Bitdefender free edition ?

[optigrab]

c0ltran3,

My experience has been different than yours. I've used Bitdefender free with McAfee 4.5 on my office machine without failures/conflicts for months. I have also tried it on one of my personal machines (w/NOD32) for a few days, also without failures/conflicts.

My only reasons for uninstalling at home are: ver. 7.2 often (not always) requests a SYSTEM reboot after an update, and F-PROT dos has served me well as a backup (OTOH, manual updates are getting to be a drag IMO).

What sort of errors have you seen?

-Optigrab

[hokhost]

I am also on Nod32 and F Prot for Dos. I use Fp Check to update F Prot.
I was thinking of changing my backup scanner to Avast, Bitdefender Free, Norman (was free with my computer) or Panda Platinum (got it free a while back). Still don't know yet.

Thx

Hokhost

[c0ltran3]

to Hokhost: I recommand BD as a backup scanner.

I'm very happy with this antivirus. It's very precise (I had no false positive) and has great unpacking capabilities.

But I noticed a very low ability in detecting dialer and not very good detection of trojans (it found about 50%/60%).

I never had conflicts with other AV.

[hokhost]

OK, thx I will try it :)