Bitdefender Antivirus Free - English GUI

Okay. Understood.

 

Yes you are right. I forgot about that one. However on the bright side your registration doesn't expire like it does with other AVs.

 

Did an offline/online/realworld tests today.

Offline Test

24 zeroday malware detected by Bitdefender at VT.
11 zeroday malware not detected by Bitdefender at VT.

24 malware
BD Free ondemand detected 20/24
4 executed, 1 didn't run, 2 blocked by AVC, 1 run.

11 malware
Ondemand 0/11
11 executed, 2 didn't run, 1 gave error internet required, 4 blocked by AVC, 1 temp file quarantined, 3 run. No active malware. Security center & safe mode were disabled, 1 google chrome .vbs entry in msconfig - startup.

Online Test

24 malware
Ondemand 24/24

11 malware
Ondemand 0/11
11 executed, 2 didn't run, 4 blocked by AVC, 1 temp file quarantined, 4 run.
No active malware. Hosts was disabled, 1 google chrome .vbs entry in msconfig - startup, 1 update checker entry in msconfig - startup.

Realworld Test

24 malware
All 24 malware were blocked by either webshield or realtime protection.
(24 malware were downloaded/run from cleanmx, malc0de & malwareblacklist)

11 malware
4 malware were blocked by webshield, 1 didn't run i.e gave error & 1 blocked by AVC that I tried downloading/running from the above mentioned sites.
11 malware pack had 5 malware from malwaretips. So there was no malware link but link for the zip file. So I tried 5 random link from the above mentioned site to complete the test for total 11 links & webshield blocked all the 5 links.
No infection as every malware was blocked.

Test was done on real system i.e no VM, XP SP3 32 Bits.
Windows Firewall
BD Free

 

The mentioned links are no longer a useful source of malware because pretty much all AV vendors monitor them and add the stuff from those pages instantly to the signatures.

 

Still many samples from those links are missed by AVs.

By the way the test was mostly to check if the protection of BD Free is the same as BD Paid as mentioned in BD site. And also to check how strong offline protection BD Free provides. The rest was extra, etc...

 

Not all monitor them...

 

Is there any tweak to permanently increase font size in logs window ?

 

Latest malware pack on malwaretips 153

BD Total - 130/153 - Posted by someone on MT.

BD Free - 131/153
22 executed, few didn't run, 13 processes blocked by AVC.
No active infection.

 

Thanks for the info..

 

Pretty good, but how did the Free do better than the paid?

 

May be coz free ondemand scan connects to cloud for latest detections & paids doesn't.

 

Iulika0069,

A bug in BD Free

On detecting & quarantining malware, BD Free changes the default settings of Folder Options i.e "Do not show hidden files/folders" & "Hide extensions for known file types" are unchecked.

Tested on Win 7 64 Bits

I have posted it in BD Free forum too.

 

WTF that means?

So? First scan that I tried was like Infected items detected: 52 and again No infected items have been found. How can that be?
1st day of using BD free. Should I remove it?

 

run to the hills - it will explode

 

LOL Bitdefender quality!

 

BD Free wrongly just reports some password protected files as infected. No infection as there was no real infection. Nothing to worry. This have been reported in BD Free forum. Hope its fixed soon.

Checks the events logs & there you will find the info.

 

Thanks.

You too, for the good laugh.

 

Is it ok to turn off Auto Scan ? Am I gaining anything in performance ?

 

I always keep Auto Scan off. It always chews away at the hard drive unnecessarily. So long as you keep Virus Shield running, you'll be all good. It's quite thorough and I have trusted it for a while now.

 

Thank you

 

Autoquarantine and autoquarantine, the files are clean on virustotal.

Hm, Bitdefender ... Iulika, please come back.

 

You have options to restore the files under actions ?

 

As long as the logs button is working I'm able to restore them.

 

Yeah, I too have the logs button issue. But restarting gui fixes it.

 

This is my observation, but not sure if its always true. Last time before formatting my PC I did not have issue with log button. I think the reason is then I had installed .NET framework as part of other programs, before installing BD. Now on my latest installation I installed .NET framework along with BD. Maybe when BD configures .NET framework it messes up things. I am not sure though. Worth a try when you install on a fresh PC.