Comments on: Bitdefender 10 Review

By: sarach

sarach — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:41:21 +0000

I brought a cd rom bit defender after the licence on my Panda anti virus ran out. It was £40 and £20 less then the reinstalled Panda virus detecter.I had trouble installing it and had to uninstall my Panda first in that time I got a virus. The computer company that recomended the Bit Defender( they had recommended the Panda yr before and like the bit defender had installed it for me)took my computer away and cleaned it ,but not the hardrive as I woudnt pay for it.It came back with the Bit Defender installed. Since then when on the internet it keeps removing and restoring the tab and after 3 times it shuts down what your looking at and goes back to original loaded internet. This is a pain when your emailing as it looses all you have written. Do you think this is the bit defender. I have to say before with the Panda I had no trouble and wish I had spent that extra money reinstalling it off line .

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:28:16 +0000

Even though I’m romanian, I don’t trust the romanian antivirus solution – BitDefender at all! In its early versions it had caused BSOD everytime I took the patience to install and to use it. Now, after years I was curious if it could detect one of the most deadly virus around, W32/Virut.Gen, known by its name – restorer32_a.exe. This is a virus you can’t get rid of unless you delete every partition you have, repartition and reformat.
Take a look at the scan log: almost all of the scanning engines detected it as a virus, but it was not the case of BitDefender. The same happened after scanning reader_s.exe.

http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/ed154456c52e3c31621884e035b7d3f4ccb53323

By: Vexentricity » Blog Archive » BitDefender problems strike again!

Vexentricity » Blog Archive » BitDefender problems strike again! — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:45:03 +0000

[...] The buggy update caused hundreds, and some systems thousands, of critical system files to be placed in quarantine, which resulted in the machine becoming unbootable. Old Bitdefender post & comments – Mar 2010……………………………………………. [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:48:25 +0000

I just went back in to my settings and turned off the firewall as I read the article above from troubleshooter. It made a very quick and noticeable improvement in speed. I already had the parental control off…no children on my pc and i don’t have to worry about myself. I wonder if there were competing firewalls from the modem and/or wireless router??? Any way it helped so far. I still wonder where those emails went!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:32:24 +0000

I have used bit defender for several years, it does a good job and has always kept the virus’s away, but every year when I renew and update it slows my pc down terribly. I always have to request help to try and get it working properly again. I am considering finding a different antivirus software. I’m tired of it slowing things to a snails pace… and hten waiting for help. Sometimes I wonder if it just falls asleep on the job. Also I hear and see that I have received email…but they are no where to be found, did I really get one or is bit defender just hiding them somewhere. I may be asking for a refund soon. I do have 2 gig of ram, but my system idel process shows it’s using 90 plus % when bit defender is turned on. …just venting!

By: troubleshooter

troubleshooter — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:31:49 +0000

I too, was having problems with BD10 in killing internet access in my FF and IE browsers. Here’s what I did to get mine working (so far…)

On the initial installation, I too had a failed install. I rebooted, ran the install again, this time successfully. After a few FF requests I noticed that the pages were pulling up ever more slowly until the point came where no page would pull up. I ran the repair tool available from Start => Programs => Bitdefender => Repair/Uninstall. After another reboot, BD reinstalled itself again (as it was supposed to do.) Opened FF- still no joy.

I opened up a command line prompt and ran a ping to my local workplace server. Pings timed out. I then ran a tracert to find where traffic was dying and ascertained that I was sending traffic successfully to my workplace server, it was dying as it got to my computer, pretty much proving that a component in BD was killing incoming traffic.

I right-clicked the BD icon in the active program tray and opened Basic Settings. Once there, I disabled all Security Settings. Opened FF and sure enough my browser was now functioning. I then began enabling the Security Settings one by one, closing and opening FF after each change until I hit the Firewall enable. It was there where my FF quit working. Unchecking the Firewall still did not bring back my internet access until I unchecked all of the settings again rebooted, and enabled all settings once more (with the exception of the Firewall and Parental control- the later, my choice). I now have functional browsers again with BD active.

A byproduct of the above seems to have improved the vsserv service under BD. Where it was running in the 60-70% CPU total utilization before, it now runs 20-30% .

While this may may not work for everyone (no workaround fixes everyone), I offer my testing for you to try.

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:03:19 +0000

This product works well on my PC but not so much on my laptop. I haven’t figured out it yet but it might suite best if I just return the product, I haven’t found a source for troubleshooting this software and as I said it runs ridiculously slow on my laptop, I too suffer from the minutes of deleting small files and streaming videos. Although it does not seem the program is bias against laptop or PC seems like most of you have PC’s and the problems occur. Odd.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:45:14 +0000

Yeah, I had shocking experiences with bitdefender 10 also. I now run with iolo system mechanic, and find it very good.

By: Rick Squires

Rick Squires — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:59:43 +0000

I purchased bitdefender, Internet Security 2009 and it sucks. Don’t buy it! It does not work with Gmail and I continually received error that I have not scanned for malware for 10 days even though auto-scan is set to run every 3 days. This product is the worst software I have ever purchased in my life. Stay away!!!

By: Robbie

Robbie — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:58:59 +0000

BDIS2009-Problems registering account, network and file activity did not work, couldn’t add my computer to it’s own network!….PC crashed unless i disabled BDIS2009. Customer support left a lot to be desired, no phone number only online help with not very technical techs. Refund and got rid of, next time i try before i buy. Gone with Kaspersky…no problems at all.