BullGuard 7.0 Released (Bitdefender+Outpost)

ye i know i did mean to correct it but forgot.

 

BullGuard 7 reviewed by PC-Mag

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2061768,00.asp

Some time ago, but didnt se any comments in here about it

 

Re: BullGuard 7 reviewed by PC-Mag

Does BullGuard use the exact same engine as BitDefender 8 free edition and the same firewall engine as Agnitum Outpost Free v1.0?

 

Can't recommend them, as I've never used them, but Bullguard 7.0 can be purchased OEM for £11.74 from http://www.computersplus.co.uk/shop/software/bullguard-internet-security-v6-oem/prod_38.html.

I haven't tried this one myself, but just downloading the trial. Have to say, the nag screen seems like it would be an immediate annoyance. Why can't they just let you try it without badgering you for a purchase?

 

Testing this now - just doing the full scan, it's been on 3% for over 2 hours, and estimates 41 hours to go! It's either a very thorough or a very slow scan! That said, I'm quite impressed at the low impact the scanning is having on my resources. I can open and run other programs with minimal delay, unlike many other AV scans, which seem to hog all the resources. CPU usage reads high (average 85% while scanning), but still this doesn't seem to impact on performance. Quite weird, in fact.

One thing I would immediately question is why the need to 'log in' to BG each time Windows starts? OK, there's a box to do this automatically, but what am I logging into, exactly?

Secondly, I'm not sure about the Backup utility. Do I really want to send all my documents to them to store online? How secure is the facility? What guarantee is there that no one can access these files? At the moment, I have no intention of using this feature, and it would have been nice if, like KIS, there were some install options to leave features out that one doesn't want installed, so as not to be nagged to use them.

I like the interface, but it's not outstanding. I'm impressed with the apparent lack of system hogging, but I hope the full scan speeds up a bit. Oddly, it claims to have found 14 infections, but I have yet to discover what these are. Presumably it will list them at the end, but on a new Windows installation, when KIS found nothing just the other day, I'll be interested to see what BG claims to have found.

I'll continue the trial for now, but I have to say, I haven't found anything in BG as yet, which would convince me to permanently dump KIS.

 

Can't say I'm impressed with this. The full system scan took an unbelievable 6 hours and 51 minutes!! I have never used an AV that took that long before. It then claimed to find 113 infections. Bearing in mind, this is a new Windows installation, and Kaspersky and the online F-Secure scanners found nothing, I find it hard to believe BullGuard's findings. Most of them, I have to admit, relate to cracks or keygens for other software, so maybe it's just finding things that might be viruses? I then allowed it to run the fixes, and it takes about an hour for each 'Round' of fixes. After 4 rounds, it still hadn't managed to fix 72 of the 113 issues it claimed to find. I have contacted BG support, and was impressed that they answered almost immediately, but they have suggested running a scan in safe mode, and sending them the log. I really don't want to leave the PC on over night again, if it's going to take another 7 hours, but do I simply discount what BG claims to find, and go back to KIS, which reports that my machine is clean?

 

it uses the bitdefender engine which does detect cracks and keygens as malware. anyway keygens and crack serials tut tut Simon
lodore

 

I know it's naughty http://www.avfu59.dsl.pipex.com/smileys/blush.gif but I only use them for testing stuff, then if I like it, I buy it. http://www.avfu59.dsl.pipex.com/smileys/whistle.gif I'm pretty sure I never had all those detected with BD10, but maybe I didn't do a full scan with it, after I discovered the problems with uTorrent. This is more trouble than it's worth, though, and the email scanner is really slow too, so it's back to KIS for me.