Bitdefender Antivirus Free - English GUI

hmm, you boys have got me on a roll tonight.

I am so sick of vendors referring to their products a "Total Protection" or "Maximum Protection". What this tells me the user, that any product I buy from them that isn't the top product, means my malware protection is less then what it could be. This is BS. It means nothing more then different enhancements modules added to the base product.

Bitdefender has proven their abilty to protect. But unfortunately their detection ability has become know while being used in other products. Duh, their focus should be on commiting the same amount of attention into their own products so that when their name comes up, it is used in conjundtion with their own products, and not someone elses.

 

Bitdefender's free Anti-virus program is incomplete and their paid anti-virus products is having all kinds of problems sound like Bit defender has a lot of work to do, now let's see if they are willing to do what is necessary.

 

eh bitdefender has always been second-tier, in performance or efficiency, don't see it becoming very good in a near future and i won't be lured with random av tests.

 

How do you arrive at that conclusion? I have not used BD in at least 10 years due to the problems, and the lack of support. However, the recent tests by AV-C indicate that it is one of the very tops in protection.
Whatever it is, it is not second tier in protection.
Jerry

 

Syobon said second tier in performance or efficiency, not protection. I don't think detection rates can be argued, but the discussion has been about a half-finished product, which BD Free is thus far, in my opinion and others.

 

I couldn't agree more. I have been using this product since Dec and it has never left my laptop, my pc, family pc, and parents pc. It's that good and that simple. Well done my Romanian friends!

Ice

 

Your very wrong about it being 2nd tier. The only thing they have to work out is the automated restore ability of a FP, of which the 4 machines it's installed on had zero false positives for me. It runs light as a feather and it has an extremely simple interface. I think a lot of people see this simplicity as a weak under achieving product. I can tell you from the limited tests that I have run, this thing is a AV malware killer.

just my .02 cents
Ice

 

My sentiments as well. Simple, light, and effective with only one problem left to resolve to make it near perfect for the average, non-technical, "Joe" or "Jane" to use.

Later...

 

Well, ALL antivirus these days are designed to be simple out of the box. It can have super complicated interface but in the end it doesn't matter really. You install it and it does the job all by itself even though it has tons of options and settings. But ppl get put off just because they get scared of features they won't ever use anyway.

It's like being afraid of driving a brand new Mercedes S class just because it has tons of gadgets. It will still drive like any other car if you don't use the gadgets. And the same is with AV's. Take avast! and BitDefender Free as an example. avast! has loads of stuff to tweak, BitDefender has none at all (basically). But if you just install and forget both, they'll do the same job by itself. Sure avast! shows more notifications and it has sounds but after you draw the line, they'll both automatically protect you.

And it's the same with pretty much all others. AVG, MSE, Kaspersky, Symantec, Trend Micro, F-Secure etc etc. You can either tweak it yourself in-depth or just leave it as it is out of the box. In both cases it will do it's job as it should. Its what beta testers and developers are working on a large chunk of the time, how to make a program work great without any tweaking (install and forget) but also give advanced users tons of settings. Some split that in two separate interfaces (simple and advanced), others just leave them together and assume ppl will not poke them if they don't need them.

But ppl just get put off by many settings for no reason. Why? If you don't know what they are and you aren't sure of you should change them, then don't. It's as simple as that. The stuff that matters has been factory set to the best possible setting anyway so in the end, all users can be satisfied. From novice computer users up to advanced users. But with likes of dumbed down oversimplified programs, they only satisfy novice users but forget about the advanced ones. Heh...

 

What I find hilarious......is that Bitdefender was rarely, if ever, talked about here at Wilders in the past. It was almost an afterthought. Even after they started to rate very highly in AV-Comparatives tests a few years ago. THEN...they come out with a "FREE" product, and all of a sudden we have a 70+ page thread that is like the Energizer bunny and just keeps going, and going.......

It's a shame that many people seem to be a fan of the "free" product and not necessarily Bitdefender the antivirus. If Bitdefender ever drops their "FREE" product, I have a feeling that many of their new "fans" will drop them as well.

 

May I ask you why?

 

Because they are not a fan of the product, but the price.

This community used to be more about the features and benefits of security software applications, and less about the price. Now, though, if a product is offered for "free", that has taken precedence over how effective the product is.

 

IMHO, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Again,
IMHO, I don't think so.

 

I only bought the paid recently because of the best detection rates,i use the free version because i prefer it .Now the bug is fixed im back to it

 

Your "Join Date" was December 27th, 2012. Did you lurk for a decade or were you previously known by another username?

 

"Join Date" is one think, "Common Sense" is another.

Anyway, thanks for the replies.
No more off topics, from my side: End of story.

 

I agree with you. But, that's what BitDefender is failing to understand, IMHO. I have mentioned it before, and I'll say it again, even Microsoft understood they can't just be after new malware samples from their MSE/Windows Defender users. By this I mean that, while beta testing MSEv4, Microsoft removed the options that allowed the user to make a decision when a threat is found, and this made MSE users unhappy and Microsoft reintroduced it back.

This is exactly what BitDefender Free is: it lacks the option to let the user decide what to do upon a possible infection. BitDefender AV Free isn't keeping the user focused on it.

It doesn't really matter if BAF has a great detection, if it will at some point automatically delete the users applications due to false positives. This will piss users off, because they won't put up with it. They want to be protected, but at the same time they want their daily applications to work and not be deleted/quarantined and have to restore them every time something like that happens.

BitDefender is blind to this scenario. Their own loss.

 

We'll change that!

This is already done, no deletion of any file anymore..

 

Is it really true?

 

Now, that's lovely!

 

But when will I be able to restore a file from the quarantine? I'm really looking forward to the future versions. You should really make your full version paid suites into something as light as Bitdefender AV FREE.

 

Their "FREE" product differs from their "PAID" solutions. Their FREE versions is extremely light and slim compared to their "PAID" versions and still provides almost the same protection. Should they revamp their "PAID" product into something as light as their "FREE" (cloud-based) version I'd buy the software. That's why I use it right now.

 

We're waiting hopefully

I try to explain my idea: this delayed update is too much important for BD Free, it will bring too much important fixes...it's not a good thing that we have to wait so long for this.

It's not a minor update, that bring better performances o minor improvements, that we could wait also for a long time without problem...

Sorry for my bad english, i like very much BDFree and i'm grateful for it. I want only explain what i think on this aspect.

 

This is the 10 million dollar question. They will do it. But WHEN?

 

For the first time I'll quote myself:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=2210230&postcount=1612
and
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=2206160&postcount=1531