BitDefender 2010 released

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by renegade08, Aug 17, 2009.

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  1. trjam

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    get G-Data, the best of Avast and the Bitdefender that does work.;)
     
  2. renegade08

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    And extremely heavy and slow on older rigs.
     
  3. MrGSM

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    It's right renegade08...
    The most heavy AntiVirus/Suite...
     
  4. trjam

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    Hmm, you are the first to say that about 2010, or have you not tried it. I do agree about older versions.
     
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    for me the 2010 AV was decently light, id say it was an acceptable product wen it comes to performance, but i wouldnt say it has one of the best performing AV's.
     
  6. renegade08

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    Uhh..., i have tried them all right. When 2010 was released , i've tried both 2009 and 2010. Yes indeed the difference between 2009 and 2010 can be seen at the moment if someone gives them a spin both of versions in a few days and compare them.
    2010 was much lighter that 2009.
    Maybe you don't use Firewall, so that's why G-Data looks light or maybe you use it on new PC?
    As i have said G-Data is slowing down older rigs. I didn't say anything more that that. If one have top notch PC i guess that this problem don't exists.
    G-Data was pretty well even with firewall, but soon as i go online then the PC was too slow, so i have to remove it. Same with F-Secure and Norton.
    I don't say that they are bad (or good) products, but regarding on behaviour on older machines, i say i have to pass.
    Although at BD 2010 i can see some improvements it's still buggy and a little heavy.
     
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    I think you mean the opposite thing.
    They have it in BD 2009 and 2008 when i wanted to try them and they sucked and bugs, oh my god, they can compare with MS with bugs.
    I don't remember if they have Net Framework in BD v.10, which was decent.

    You got that right. I can't imagine who wanted to copy about GUI? Maybe F-Secure in their fancy GUI? GUI don't sells product. Unless you aren't girl.
    And yes all they do seems it's focused on GUI and bugs of the product are rarely fixed. In the BD 2009 version, there were hundreds of bugs reported at their forum and i suppose to their live support or by mail, but they don't updated the product almost whole year and i dind't see any fix going trought built-in updater.
    That would never happen to some other AV's.
     
  8. firzen771

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    tested out Bitdefender AV 2010 and it is the lightest AV to date, lowest I/O reads, CPU usage, Memory usage out of all the AV's i tried. my complain tho is that the GUI is terrible and the program is still slightly awkward and buggy to use.
     
  9. dawgg

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    Correct, the packaging and price does.
     
  10. Jonnas_tan

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    Well I didn't try their other versions, I started with their 2010. It's not a system hog and they made me switch from Kaspersky so.. I consider they have better detection; I expect good detection and removal from my antivirus.
     
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    I m sure every girl in the town will buy it.

    Jonnas_tan ,BD 2010 it si indeed lighter than the BD 2009 series ,but the "essence of bug" is still under the hood and it will show, at every major update ,its ungly face.
    Even if for the moment seems to work, sooner or later ,in 1-2 months it will get you and own you.

    trjam ,tryed to try the G Data 2010 Antivirus and all i can say is that you can not play an online game with that thing runing in the background.
    Better to use Avast as real time and BD 2009 as on demand without paying anything.Or maybe Avira though i hate the damn baners.
    I want to use my dual core for more than antivirus running/scanning anyway.

    Any other vendor using BD engine ? Want to try those too .
     
  12. renegade08

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    If you are "Average Joe" user.

    I don't go to shops and i don't know what packaging have products (unless you are refering to online images).
    And who the h*ll sees the packaging, especially at forums like Wilders with advanced members regarding security.
    IMHO today products are bought online and there is no packaging at online downloads.
    And about price, it's to double-edged sword.
    If you have the most expensive product for free and it doesn't work on your PC i highly doubt that you will use it. On other hand there are free products that can substitute paid one's in layered security.

    I must admit that BirDefender has one of the cheapest products on the market 3 users/30 $, and that makes 10 $ per user and in some countries you can buy single user license for 10 $.
     
  13. dawgg

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    The "Average Joe" doesn't know what this forum is...
     
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    while it was lighter than in the past it was for sure still heavy for me. much heavier than most but def not the heaviest i have tested. i also dislike the gui very much and it was still buggy for me with just various issues. not as buggy as 2009 but issues were still there
     
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    I'm one of them. Just call me Joe ;)
     
  16. renegade08

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    You got nice point there! :thumb:

    Hi Joe.
    Nice to meet you.
     
  17. renegade08

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    Probably of the GUI, there are some many bugs. Yes indeed, it's still buggy.
    Well i gave a try some time ago of v.2009 and v.2008, just to see what was changed, but instead improved product i saw terrible horror.
    I've tried so many times installing those two version and every time i've encountered on a new problem.
    From v.10 till now passed 3 years and instead of going on positive side, they are turning wrong side.
    Except of their engine which probably is keeping them alive (by selling it or renting it).
    I think that they themselves saw that number of people who update and therefore use the product is geting smaller and that's why they are trying to change something in the product or give some support at their forum which in the past couple of years was unimaginable.
     
  18. Arin

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    BD 2010 doesn't slow down the machine too much. I used the trial version and found that there is no noticable performance impact. It was somewhat similar to NAV 2010.

    Yes, I am using a triple core CPU with 3GB of RAM but I guess a lot of people here are using similar machines.

    However, the first scan is slow and I do not like .NET based applications. The engine will access the system directly but the crap needs .NET for some other functions.

    Has anybody tried it with .NET 3.5 SP1?
     
  19. thathagat

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    BD Internet security is one app that i have tried to give the benefit of doubt many times but the bugs just don't seem to go away i have tried the latest but it still has the issue of tray icon greying out with BD service not responding error every now and then.....:doubt:
     
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    IMO the only thing going for BitDefender atm is its good performance and pretty good detection rate, but usability and reliability are very low.
     
  21. Arin

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    Funny as BD didn't misbehave on my machine. The services worked fine and I couldn't stop them using Task Manager.
     
  22. renegade08

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    Welcome to the club. :p
    I've encountered some new bugs with BitDefender. after i have done quick scan, i've started deep scan and suddenly BD crashed and telling me that it has to be closed and restarted and log files are available.
    I guess fun with BD never ends. Every time some new surprise is coming out of the closet. :thumbd:
    I've tried so many beta products and few of them didn't work, but at least i know that don't work at the start. With many other beta products i have positive experience, although they are in beta stage and can cause problems.
    BD looks some like lousy coded applications with million of bugs.
    Then finally after giving so much time to them i had to uninstall that "Thing".
     
  23. Arin

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    My NAV2010 misbehaved and I couldn't remove it using NRT. Had to chuck it out from safe mode.

    BD2010 is working fine on that drive. Somehow something as stable as NAV failed and as unstable as BD worked.

    I had problems with earlier versions of BD, severe horrible problems.
     
  24. Jonnas_tan

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    Funny, my experience is that g-data and norton are light even on older systems ;) Different setups dosent act the same way, eventhough they are old.
     
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