Bullguard 2013 is Out!!

Yeah I would say up to 30-60 seconds longer for boot, but not a big deal. My real problem now is RollbackRX appears to GREATLY extend boot times the longer it is installed.

There are several threads about this on their forums, with no real answers forthcoming, and they have a hideous activation system so you can't really keep uninstalling/reinstalling it. Considering ditching that product and selling off the license to a client, but I need to try and figure out a way to make it boot quicker with it installed. I love the product, hate the boot time!

 

Have you ever tried the AV only version? I know you chose IS because of lower price but I'm curious on how the AV would compare against the IS with all its extra stuff disabled (fw,sf,pc,bu), in terms of system load of course.

 

Good question, and I checked - you cannot fully 'disable' the IS services in Windows, or the entire kit doesn't function right. I wonder if a license for the IS version would work on the lower AV only one? You'd think it would, I will check.

 

Unfortunately BG licenses don't extend down to the lesser versions. Pity, but I do love the Vuln-Scanner, and Cleanup systems in the IS version, both are actually pretty darn nice. BG's cleaner blows away Webroots, which I always found lacking in pretty major ways. BG's cleaner means I don't really have to worry about Bleachbit or CCleaner installed, especially since CCleaner is going paid.

 

Thanks for checking it. I too like the Vulnerabilities scanner, although I honestly wouldn't trust much on their TuneUp application. I have other tools to keep my pc's running fast and smooth

 

BG continues to impress me.. I love their license management system. I was shocked to log in to their website, and treated with a the ability to totally manage my own activation's.

In view of the recent problems with product activation's like Hitman, Bit Defender, and VIPRE, this is very very refreshing.. I could actually 'disable' licenses that were registering before re-formats with a single click, freeing up that key within the 5 license limitation. I cannot think of a better way to do this.

http://www.anony.ws/i/2012/12/20/jBfU2.jpg

 

Quick note:

I am liking Bullguards Parental Controls. I have kids in the home, and have tested multiple products that do this, most of them stink! I have tried many AV products, and for one reason or another, they just aren't functional enough or have bugs.

On a whim I turned on BG's parental protection. The logging in it is fabulous, and it picks up *EVERY* porn site I have tested! Few products I tested over the years snag all of the porn sites, many sneak past. Bullguard has a very good parental protection tool in my opinion. I was considering going back to WR with the free 5 license deal on Newegg, but frankly this parental protection will keep me with BG.

 

Are you sure you do not work for BullGuard?

 

I tried BG in 2009, 2010, and gave up.. I found it buggy and slow. So no, I don't work for them. However I do find 2013 to fit my needs quite nicely, and will discuss that as necessary.

I used Avira for many years, then Webroot for about a year, and now BG.

 

I gave BG-AV a try for a couple days but, unfortunately to me, I felt my system a tad slower than I would prefer. That's a pity because I really liked its minimalist gui and the fact that BG uses the BD engine. While I realize that my laptop is not high-end at all (Intel dual-core, 2gb ram, Win8 ), I felt that BG was as heavy as the "champion" BD which I also tried weeks ago. Maybe it's just on my rig, but I notice that G Data AV 2013 with its dual scan engine is lighter than them both here, albeit it also sports the BD engine. So, either it's a brilliant job from G Data people or... go figure.

 

Can you elaborate on this please.Ccleaner going paid.There always has been a pay version.
Do you mean the free version is going to be a pay for product??
Thanks.

 

Try turning off the firewall, otherwise BG shouldn't offer any system load you can notice. I have it on a pretty low end machine, as well as what I consider a poor performing laptop (Dualcore 2.6ghz, 4GB Ram), and no slowdown there either.

 

was the same for me...

 

It was the AV what I've tried, without FW

 

No clue, maybe conflicts? BG should be very speedy, I have it on a variety of machines and it is very nearly as light as Webroot in day to day operations. In fact I have Webroot AND BG installed on the machines, with WR functioning more like an advanced PrevX and Web Shield.

No slowdowns at all when both running. Even on the slower desktop and laptop.

Just a thought: Maybe try the full suite version? Perhaps the suite was compiled differently?

 

But I thought you mentioned previously that one of Bullguard's strengths was its web scanner, which was much better than the one in Webroot?

 

Of course, and that opinion hasn't changed, so why did you waste 30 minutes clipping and pasting that? Weird.. Anyway I figured it wouldn't hurt to have an additional web scanner, but it doesn't seem like it has picked up anything that BG doesn't first in testing. So I might end up turning that aspect off as well, and just using the identity shield aspect of WR where it sandboxes the browser.

Not sure there would be much point in that either. In Malware Domain testing, BG got 100% of them, WR with Webshield, seemed to only snag a couple out of a few dozen. Not too impressed. Commtouch is an enterprise level solution in BG, very robust, and probably more than enough for home PC's.

 

Conflicts, I highly doubt that is the case. I always like to keep my (and relatives and friends) pc's as "unbloated" as possible by installing just a plain AV without extras, never liked the suites. The only exception I did so far was with my current license of Avira IS on my own machine, which I took advantage because it was offered for free over a year ago and besides it's very light.
Thanks for your suggestion on the suite, I'll see if I'm in the mood to try it later

 

Good Evening ! Currently using the suite in concert with WSA Essentials...really impressed at how light and responsive the 2013 version of Bullguard I.S. is. Compared to previous editions...2012...2011...2013 is a pleasant surprise. Sincerely...Securon

 

Agreed, and yes it does run perfectly fine with WSA. But I uninstalled WSA as it seemed redundant with BG.. But that's my opinion.

My only complaints about BG thus far;

1) The Cloud Storage Drive is too slow.. 35mbps connection, and it crawls like I am on a T1 or something.

2) Adblocker is awesome, powerful, but inserts annoying BG graphic into blocked ads. This needs to go, it should remove the ad and replace it with either a small text, or nothing. (ideally nothing) Thus I do not like it the way it is.

3) Updates on system boot, I cannot seem to turn off it automatically updating on system boot, and this can slow down boot. I'd rather have it update hourly but have an option to disable updates immediately upon boot. Minor annoyance, as it only slows boot by a few seconds, still.

Otherwise, I am entirely impressed with this product. Fantastic purchase. I am using everythign from the parental controls (which work fabulously, as I have kids), to the online backup system and spam filters. This is the first IS where I have used the entire thing 100% of the features. Most stink in other products or are half-baked versions. BG did not skimp, and licensed pro technology. Let's see what BG has licensed (that I know about);

Commtouch(HTTP/HTTPS), Commtouch-Enterprise(SpamFilter), Agnitum (Firewall), Engine 1 Sigs (Bit Defender), Vuln-Scan (Secunia).

Based on the quality of the backup, parental controls and cleaner, I assume they also licensed those technologies. The trick now is to determine what they licensed! But BG doesn't seem to have skimped in any category.

 

Good Evening ! Wasn't aware of the Agnitum...Outpost firewall...now I'm really impressed. Sincerely...Securon

 

Add NovaShield to this list (behaviour blocker).

 

A very good product but for future versions I would like to see;

1. More options than block or fix the file when Infections are picked up.

2. A SafePay/SafeMoney option as in BitDefender/Kaspersky.

 

Post #117 sugests you get more options if you check the "Display a popup" option. At least that's the way I read it.

 

Correct.

I didn't know Novashield was in it, that's outstanding! This thing is an amalgam of some of the better techs out there. Safepay would be nice, but also what if they integrated Trusteer into it? That might be pretty incredible.

Support emailed me back saying there is no way to disable BG graphic replacing ads, but if they get input on this then they would consider it for future versions. Seriously, it's as powerful as Admuncher IMO because it uses a huge resource of this (commtouch), but they really need to make the ads disappear rather than the graphic.