BitDefender Antivirus 10.0 [Old Version]

List Price: $39.95 Discount Price: $14.75

Features:

• Filters all possible virus access scenarios: shares, downloads, web traffic, Peer-2-Peer and IM applications, removable drives, etc.
• Blocks unknown viruses using advanced proactive detection techniques
• Scan incoming and outgoing mail without any additional configuration
• Antispyware module prevents sensitive information leaks via e-mail or the web
• Hassle-Free Hourly Updates – Automatic updates every hour over the Internet and if necessary your product can repair itself downloading damaged or missing files

Customer Reviews:

First impressions [Posted on 2007-08-26]
I recently uninstalled a "well-known" anti-virus program because I thought my PC was infected with viruses (it was doing strange things - see last paragraph). I now have BitDefender Antivirus v10 - Build 247. Although I haven't had any viruses picked up, my PC, which runs on Windows XP Home, has been working better than ever - perhaps the previous anti-virus program was the problem in itself. It boots up faster and works faster even though I have a dial-up connection. It's not working as hard either (I have a Pentium processor - by the way, make sure your vents are dust-free). The reason I wanted to post so soon is that after BitDefender installation I did have a problem mentioned by another reviewer - at first it didn't seem that Internet Explorer 7 was going to work - it just seemed to hang there running. I'm not sure if that's because I had uninstalled another product or not. Anyway, I left it run a while and then rebooted twice (including a complete shut-down); and everything has been fine since. I am extremely pleased so far.

I did find that getting to the "knowledge base" was a little difficult on the BitDefender website, but choosing the right product finally got me there. Once I had some direction on how to schedule a scan, I really like the BitDefender interface. I also like how the little "File Zone" window tells you what is going on. I could never tell what my previous program was doing.

I had been getting stack overflow messages, problems disconnecting my dial-up, and mysterious shut-offs (which could have been dust-related as previously mentioned). Most of this occurred after upgrading from IE6 to IE7. Whatever the reason, IE7 is now running well with this product; and the accelerator seems happy, too. (FYI - I'm also running Spy Sweeper, and it seems to do well with BitDefender.)

BitDefender Antivirus 10.0 [Posted on 2007-09-08]
Seemed to be very complicated to use. Too much hassle with the spyware feature. Finally gave us and abandoned usage.

Much much better than Norton/Symantec [Posted on 2007-09-10]
I replaced my Norton System Works with this. The scans are much faster, it doesn't take forever to open an Email. It updates itself behind the scenes and doesn't take over my PC. And, it does a great job of catching stuff.
I couldn't be happier. Also note that you can put it on 2 pc's! I have it on my desktop and my notebook.

Good Product. [Posted on 2007-09-15]
Works great. Easy to install and unlike other spoiled Antivirus packages
don't give you 3 more expensive options as much as saying that their first 2 aren't that good. Keep up the good work.


Thanks Joe

Several annoying problems [Posted on 2007-12-08]
We experienced several annoying problems with this product which we had on a number of PCs. The most important was that on several computers we suddenly got a message that the license had expired and the product would no longer run. This was without any prior warnings. On closer inspection of the logs , the AV definitions had stopped updating about a month prior to the product stopping. The expiration dates seemed to be correct, it just didn't display any warning ahead of time that the licenses was going to expire. In addition we have had some false positives during the system scan, and on one system in particular even though we have added the problem subdirectory to the exclude list, the system still finds a file in that subdirectory every week and quarantines it. To compound things, when it does this, most of the time it screws up the AV data base update, and it will not longer update the AV definitions until you reboot the machine.

We are moving to Kaspersky.

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