BullGuard is HUGE on disk.

Started using a promotional BullGuard AV license from last year. Surprised to discover in 'Program Files' it occupies 720MB.
True, it does keep 2 copies of defs, but they're each ~320MB!
I'm used to avast! at ~60MB.

 

It's mainly because of BitDefender, which is also bloated.

 

is disk space at so much of a premium that you're fretting about or otherwise disturbed by 720MB worth of files?

 

Yes, and no. I think that is pretty wasteful for an AV program.

 

somepeople like to keep their OS partition small so you can make quicker images.
plus other av's use alot less disc space so why does bullguard use so much.

 

bitdefender.

 

It's XP SP3 on a 10GB partition and I initially couldn't work out where all the free space went. Real-time referencing 320MB of definitions might be a performance bottleneck.

 

OMG !! I didint knew that it uses that much space.

Does Bit-defender also does so ?

 

I have never used BullGuard.

Does BullGuard have an option to make an Antivirus Rescue CD? If yes, then much of the space being used may be as a result of the ISO image for the Antivirus Rescue CD.

 

Dear Vladimyr,


Yes, please note that you need a minimum of 200 Mb free on your computer but indeed they can increase up to 700Mb because of the antivirus definitions.


If you have any questions, I will kindly ask you to send us an email to support@bullguard.com .


Best regards,
BullGuard Support Team

 

Thanks for your input. I'm pretty sure it was up to 720MB on my PC before I removed it.

So you only need 200MB free disk space - as long as you won't need any virus definitions!

You really should get someone to change the webpage to 800 Mb free.

Cheers.