What about BullGuard 8

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=150205

This is Bullguard 7 has anyone 8? Is it BitDefender/Outpost? Can the firewall be turned off? There is a 2 month trial available

 

it's a pretty decent security suite. Why not try it

 

thanks for the feedback, it is new to me but i may well give it a try

 

It uses the bitdefender engine

 

WAY! WAY! WAY! TOO EXPENSIVE! $314.00AUD for 2 years and Gold Backup in Australia

 

Yea feels expenive because they are bundling two services, security suite and offsite back up.

Lets say a suite costs 100 AUD per year (retail price of other boxed suites) and backup from Mozy is 70 AUD per year, it is actually how much bullguard is asking for.

 

-Do the Updates come also from BitDefender or Not?

-BullGuard is still not present in official tests like the av-test.org etc.
http://blog.chip.de/0-security-blog/security-suiten-2008-im-test-q12008-20080122/
How reliable is this product?

 

It's reliable don't worry.
It uses the Bitdefender engine

 

once i try it does not feel better so i uninstall it after 30 days BullGuard support team email me how do you like the product i donot response and after 3 days they email me again do you want more 30 day's trial they really want to sell there product never see this kind of response from a AV Company

 

reliable detection, but not removel as i found out.
I tested some multiple viruses/trojans, and it found all, removed half. Not surprised, its bitdefender.

 

always get OEM 12.99 pounds, new.

 

The amount they charge for the backup is unbelieveble. check this out bullguard team! Theres lots of competition you know.

 

The high price with a paltry 20% discount for renewals quickly takes BullGuard out of my reach as my pockets just are not that deep.

 

v11 is supposed to have better removal, but dont know how much by......

did you base it on this, or your own testing?

Dr.Web Anti-Virus 4.44 Beta (82%)
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 (71%)
Norton AntiVirus 2007 (71%) Norton AntiVirus 2007 (71%)
Panda Antivirus 2008 (59%)
Avast! Professional Edition 4.7 (53%) Professional Edition 4.7 (53%)
AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 (47%) AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 (47%)
McAfee VirusScan 2007 (29%)
Trend Micro Internet Security 2007 (29%)
Avira AntiVir PE Premium 7.0 (24%)
F-Secure Anti-Virus 2007 (18%)
Eset NOD32 Antivirus 2.7 (18%)
Sophos Anti-Virus 6.5 (18%)
Dr.Web Anti-Virus 4.33 (12%)
BitDefender Antivirus 10 (6%)
VBA32 Antivirus 3.12 (6%)

 

Chris,

What is the souce of this data? It tends to confirm what I have seen elsewhere and our own testing.

 

erm......


see here

does bullguard use the new version of BD?

hope so looking at these results, and i wonder how much bd has improved their removal for v.11.

only time will tell, till the next one i suppose.

removal tests are extremely rare.

 

The source is http://www.anti-malware-test.com/?q=node/32

 

O.K. for the engine. That's clear.
What about the updates?
Are these identical with the ones of BitDefender?

I know many products that
rent scan engines from reliable vendors,
but they offer poor updates...

 

AFAIK BullGuard excludes the spyware definitions of BitDefender, instead using their own antispyware engine. I can't confirm this though.

 

Of course, i looked at other sources, but I did my own test with around 100 viruses and trojans, removed about 40.

 

Isn't the firewall from Outpost? I wonder if the antispyware comes from there?

 

Firewall is Outpost indeed.
Anti Spyware is their own

 

With Bitdefender and Outpost in the suite isn't the price justified?

 

Hey all...

I´ve been running Bullguard 7.0 for about a year, and 8.0 for some months. My subscribtion has just runned out. It is a very good suite indeed, but I'm not going to renew, it's just to expensive now a days..

I believe that Bullguard uses Bitdefenders Antispyware engine aswell as their antivirus engine. And Bullguard updates very often, I haven't tried Bitdefender so I don't know how often that updates, but Bullguard updates about once an hour.....

 

Do you need to reboot after every update?