Bitdefender Antivirus Free - English GUI

Me either.

BD is notorious, or at least I thought they were, for being incompatible with other security software. That and a rep for being a bit resource heavy and a little buggy. That's been my impression anyway.

 

I dont know of a single person whos heard of them.I think thats part of the problem.All the people i know just buy a computer and use whats on it .They may check out free ones like Avg but even when Bitdefender became free ,and i told a few about it ,they had never heard of it.Its the last thing most even think about .I dont disagree with a layered approach but even thinking about a good single one is not a priority for most.Ask the average person if they have heard of Facebook ,then ask about Bitdefender ,or MBAM

 

I couldn't agree more. We here at Wilders need to remember that we are the tip, of the tip of the iceberg when it comes to PC security. Every single one of my friends and family, ranging from my 17yr old daughter, to my 70yr old parents never even give it a second thought.....EVER.

 

So what does all that have to do with anything guys? I guess I missed your point...

 

Just a general observation

 

As the rep said before ,learn to trust it.99% of people want an antivirus and thats it.Its free ,it runs well ,Kaspersky is paid and is as good ,it runs well,but run 3 or 4 others with it and you can run into problems .I think its aimed at the simple free market ,for that its good .Its been said before ,some will not trust or want more options,they will move on,each to their own .

 

I don't think too many people will use BD Free as is. It needs more work. Most developers put out a free product in hopes of enticing more users into buying their paid version with more features. If the free version isn't up to par, then it won't do much to promote sales of the paid product(s). It's really in their best interests to improve BD Free, and add the minimum basic necessities to it asap...

 

Wait, what? Where do you get this from?
Bitdefender Free is a full cloud antivirus and it does add a pretty solid web filter.

Besides if any app is marketed as being compatible with the other, that app should fix compatibility problems if any arises.
In this case Bitdefender Free is marketed as a full antivirus, not as a companion av. If Webroot is marketed as being compatible with ANY other antivirus, then they are the ones who should make their product compatible with Bitdefender, not viceversa.

 

So, maybe this has been answered somewhere in this thread and my search skills have failed.... But, is it normal for this to use over 100mb of ram?

 

I think it should while updating, but it should decrease as it settles down and caches files.

 

What is missing?

 

I agree. But being just an AV with web filtering doesn't mean it protects all attack surfaces. A missed keylogger will still be able log you et cetera. You need more than a simple "full cloud antivirus" before calling your system safe, and we all know it.

There I agree whole heartedly. I've been in contact with Webroot about the issues and Webroot even had a technician from Ireland calling my cellphone in Sweden trying to solve the issues with me. The issue was however not isolated to my computer but Webroots' as well so I suppose they'll have work to do starting this week.

 

If the "X" AV works well, how a keylogger can be missed?

 

I'm not sure how to say this without sounding rude.

There is no security software that catches all malware. Period. You need a layered approach combined with sane Internet habbits to be somewhat safe.

 

Nothing new.
I have heard soooo many times that mandra ......

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a) There are many security software that catches 99.999% of all malware.
b) There are many security software that catches 9.999% of all malware.

Now you can choose:
A single approach of case (a) software ?
A layered approach of case (b) software?
A layered approach of case (a) software?

PS. More software installed, more holes open (it happens even in security software).

 

Why are you posting facts that are not true?

There are no security software that catches 99,999% of all malware. Also, few security software with different defense layers does not equal more holes in security.

 

Read the entire thread.. everything has already been mentioned many times and discussed in detail.

 

If you say so.......

 

I see, the restore function. We will get it ... sooner or later.

 

Went to qupzilla.com not knowing it was malicious and BD Free successfully blocked it.

 

Why has qupzilla been blocked.Ive just visited the site and there was nothing to suggest it was malicious.

 

Yep, even TrafficLight 0.2.10 (powered by BitDefender) on Chrome blocked that site. Impressive. Wish they'd update the Firefox add-on to 0.2.10. It's presently at 0.2.4. .

Later...

 

It's probably a false positive from Bitdefender.

See this report and make your own judgement.

 

FP.......

http://www.urlvoid.com/scan/qupzilla.com/

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.qupzilla.com/

http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/ed35c701b16e6f28c2560e033de136ca-1358630653

 

That's why I don't like the http scanner - too many false positives.