Does Bitdefender use the KAV engine?

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  1. POS

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    Does Bitdefender use the kav engine?
     
    POS, May 30, 2005
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  2. snowboard

    snowboard Registered Member

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    No.. If they did they would have the same size database.

    Which the databases are not the same.
     
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  3. richrf

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    BitDefender Online actually caught some malware the other day that was missed by KAV. Pretty good in my opinion. Both products seem to be excellent. I'm running KAV 4.5

    Rich
     
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    Bitdefender has really raised the size of their database latley and has improved their product quite a bit and it seems to be a pretty good av and getting better.
     
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  5. snowboard

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    Yea, they have lately :)
     
    snowboard, May 30, 2005
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  6. q1aqza

    q1aqza Registered Member

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    Does ther free Bitdefender 7.2 version use the same large database? Just started trying it as a backup scanner to KAV but was wondering if it was worthwhile bothering.
     
    q1aqza, May 31, 2005
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  7. Firefighter

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    Yes it does and I have noticed BitDefender 7.2 Free has the second best overall scanning engine just after Kaspersky against my Virweed "cleaned" 2723 samples collection, when those riskware and/or trojan client & editserver samples were cleaned out.

    Best regards,
    Firefighter!
     
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  8. The Hammer

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    AVK uses both ,but Bitdefender uses it's own database and engine.
     
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  9. Firefighter

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    I mean that BitDefender 7.2 Free has the same large database as the BitDefender 8.0 Standard version.

    Best regards,
    Firefighter!
     
    Firefighter, May 31, 2005
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