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    Bitdefender Antivirus 2010 Review Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Charles P. Jefferies, Apr 13, 2010.

  1. Charles P. Jefferies

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    By Charles P. Jefferies

    Bitdefender antivirus 2010 promises basic protection for home users. It has some advanced features not normally seen on entry level protection suites and claims to be one of the most proactive suites around. We take an in-depth look and find out.



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    huskynox Notebook Guru

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    I've been running Bitdefender for 4 years now. The first year (2006) was the best, but it just keeps getting worse! 2010 is the worst I've used. It bogs my system down horribly.

    I loaded it on my most recent computer which you can see is no dog from my signature. It was horrible! I uninstalled it within 2 hours of loading it. Went to Microsoft Essentials (free) and my system works great!

    My wife complained about her computer being slow which had Bitdender 2010 on it also. After installing Microsoft Essentials on my M17x and trying it out, I installed in on her computer. She is happy too.

    I would think twice about buying from this hungry software.
     
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    Ahbeyvuhgehduh Lost in contemplation....

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    12% performance impact seems pretty steep to me as well....
     
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    The performance hit with this product is higher than many previous antivirus solutions I tested. However, I didn't notice the difference and secondly, note that this product does have real-time traffic scanning . . . that was why it was so proactive and caught those attempted virus downloads so quickly. I deemed it worth trading extra performance for that level of proactiveness. Nonetheless, the extra performance hit is a con no matter what way you look at it.
     
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    JamesFosterUK Notebook Guru

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    Most of the people on NBR are geeks. I suspect alot of you are like me and don't run AV. However, Windows Firewall is turned on, I have a hardware firewall, I patch XP every second tuesday in the month, I patch my applications, I don't install Warez or visit dodgy gambling or sites (much). I use Opera. I do an ondemand scan every couple of weeks.

    Anyway guys I really can't recommend Panda Cloud highly enough. It only uses about 20MB of RAM, very very little CPU. Even on my Pentium M laptop there is almost no performance hit. It has malware detection rates of around 90%.
     
    JamesFosterUK, Apr 14, 2010
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