Others say...

"Disappointing..."
I'd previously read reviews of this product that raved about its ease of use and ability to catch the bugs. After having used McAfee, Norton and Trend Micro (CA), as well as AVG (freeware) on various computers, I thought I'd give it a go.

The product seems to use fewer resources than McAfee and Norton, which seem to hog them, but it also seems to be a bit unstable. After running BitDefender Plus for three months, I've had at least a dozen times where it decides to not work (shuts down the antivirus protection). I've played with the settings and saved them, but only a 'repair' of the software will bring it back. While this is not fatal, it's darned frustrating!

To its credit, when it's up and running, it catches virus' and spam. I appreciate that, as it's why I bought it, but I am disappointed to have to do much more than set it and forget it.

I'll go with Trend Micro again next time. It seemed to be the least problematic with the smallest resource appetite.



"Ok antivirus"
This software has problems with certain programs I have, and causes them to crash. The only plus side is that it doesnt seem to slow the computer down.

"System drain and horrible spam filter"
I used Pc-cillin before, which was great, but I heard the new version 2007 was resource intensive - so I decided to go with Bitdefender.

Right away, I noticed that it took longer to start up my computer, or to go from the login screen to the desktop. Sometimes, the login screen would freeze.

Additionally, the spam filter caught about 10% of spam, whereas pc-cillin caught 90%. And I constantly tinkered with the filtering to improve it - trying to train it by pointing it to spam messages as instructed. It never go better.

I then downloaded the trial version of Pc-cillin 2007, and it solved all the problems. I'm going to purchase the full version of Pc-cillin when the trial runs out and throw bitdefender in the trash.

"The jury is still out on this one........"
I had purchased this product from BitDefender about 1 month ago after purchasing a new laptop. It is easy to use and the price was right as I purchased it with BitDefender's Internet Security v10. So with a discount for purchasing this software together, I felt the price was good. I also did do some comparison shopping on other Anti-Virus software and BitDefender seemed to be a real winner. Personally, I have yet to see it clean any Viruses out of my system. But I set it up to run automatic sweeps and so it may very well be doing it's job effectively without me really knowing. I do occasionally get some really bad viruses while using P2P programs, but so far my other software has been doing the job of mopping up the trash. So for now......the jury is out on BitDefender.

"very dissapointing and didn't do the job as its supposed to"
i purchased Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 10.0 last week but found out that it didn't do the job as it's supposed to be doing.
my computer kept on freezing and crashing down and never detected any viruses but when i used mcfee total protection it detected several viruses and removed them at once. i also had problems with using bitdefender often. very complicated and not helpfull.
try mcfee total protection, easy to use and better.
i hope this review was helpfull.