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Old May 30th, 2005, 08:31 PM
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Does Bitdefender use the kav engine?
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Old May 30th, 2005, 08:36 PM
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No.. If they did they would have the same size database.

Which the databases are not the same.
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Old May 30th, 2005, 08:43 PM
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BitDefender Online actually caught some malware the other day that was missed by KAV. Pretty good in my opinion. Both products seem to be excellent. I'm running KAV 4.5

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Bitdefender has really raised the size of their database latley and has improved their product quite a bit and it seems to be a pretty good av and getting better.
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Bitdefender has really raised the size of their database latley and has improved their product quite a bit and it seems to be a pretty good av and getting better.

Yea, they have lately
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Old May 31st, 2005, 05:58 AM
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Does ther free Bitdefender 7.2 version use the same large database? Just started trying it as a backup scanner to KAV but was wondering if it was worthwhile bothering.
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Does ther free Bitdefender 7.2 version use the same large database? Just started trying it as a backup scanner to KAV but was wondering if it was worthwhile bothering.
Yes it does and I have noticed BitDefender 7.2 Free has the second best overall scanning engine just after Kaspersky against my Virweed "cleaned" 2723 samples collection, when those riskware and/or trojan client & editserver samples were cleaned out.

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Yes it does and I have noticed BitDefender 7.2 Free has the second best overall scanning engine just after Kaspersky against my Virweed "cleaned" 2723 samples collection, when those riskware and/or trojan client & editserver samples were cleaned out.

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AVK uses both ,but Bitdefender uses it's own database and engine.
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AVK uses both ,but Bitdefender uses it's own database and engine.
I mean that BitDefender 7.2 Free has the same large database as the BitDefender 8.0 Standard version.

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