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Fundamental Protection For Your Online Life BitDefender Antivirus will detect and prevent the most dangerous of viruses and malicious activities such as online fraud, spyware and online identity theft. Automatic scans and updates ensure that you remain safe 24x7 without slowing down your computer or interrupting game play. Advanced features include tailored settings for novice, intermediate or expert. It is also easy to install and use with smart user tips, video library tutorials and 24 hour technical support service. BitDefender takes care of the technical detail so that you are fully protected. It's never been so easy.STOP ONLINE THREATS Proactive protection stops new viruses and malware that other products miss. SAFEGUARD YOUR PRIVACY Eliminate the chances your data and conversations are leaked to others over email, social media networks, Instant Messaging, or websites that track your online activities.
SURF SAFELY Automatically get warnings about unsafe pages displayed in search results. FIND SUPPORT FAST Troubleshoot issues with the new video library or call for free technical assistance for the duration of your software license. Search relevant results from the Knowledge Base, Help file, Troubleshooting and Video Tutorials.
PLAY AND WORK SEAMLESSLY Automatically activate Game, Laptop, or Silent Mode to minimise interruptions, prolong battery life, or reduce system load to ensure seamless and secure computing. TAILORED TO YOU Match the interface to your level of comfort by selecting between Basic, Intermediate, or Expert settings-and quickly create shortcuts to frequently used controls.
SMART TIPS When online explorations take you into dangerous terrain, BitDefender prompts you with a series of suggested privacy safeguards, relevant to your most recent activity. VIDEO LIBRARY A new collection of step-by-step videos helps you navigate through common security challenges. RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 (SP2 for x64), Vista (SP1), Microsoft Windows 7 Available free hard disk space: 1 GB free space CPU: Intel CORE Duo (1.66 GHz) or equivalent processor Memory (RAM):1GB (Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows 7), 1.5 GB (Microsoft Windows Vista)
Our antivirus protection software will detect and prevent the most dangerous of viruses and malicious activities such as online fraud, spyware and online identity theft. Automatic scans and updates ensure that you remain safe 24x7, without slowing down your Windows computer or interrupting game play. Advanced product features include tailored settings for novice, intermediate or expert. It is also easy to install and use with our smart user tips, video library tutorials and 24 hour technical support servic...
By : Bit DefenderPrice : £4.99
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- ASIN: B0040QD1QA
- Release Date: 9 Nov 2010
BitDefender Anti-Virus 2011, 3 Users, 1 Year Subscription (PC)
Product Features
- Award-winning and internationally certified products
- Trusted by over 100 million users worldwide
- Keeps your money and identity safe online
- Ensure safe online banking and shopping
- Blocks spyware to stop organisations spying on your online habits
- Blocks annoying pop up adverts
- Gaming mode to ensure no interruption to your gaming experience
- Email and Instant Messaging protection
- Around the clock technical support
- Protects up to 3 PCs for 1 year
Costumer Reviews
Before trying to install it myself, I thought the other reviews here must be the overly harsh comments of technophobes. Now though, having spent a frustrating and fruitless afternoon attempting to install it, I have to admit that BitDefender is blighted by a thoroughly unprofessional and probably unfinished installation process.
I have virtually given up on BitDefender. After being prompted to install an updated version of the product, the process fell over after two hours. I then tried reinstalling, but ignoring the updated version prompt. This time, it required me to restart my PC after removing my existing anti-virus software (McAfee), but utterly failed to continue with the installation following the restart. Thought I'd give it one final chance before hurling the package out the window. This time, it seemed to get stuck on the "updating BitDefender" stage even though the progress bar had reached 100%. I left it another hour with no apparent progress. When the software tells you "the installation process will finish shortly" do NOT believe it
The progress bars are obviously incorrectly implemented, giving you no true indication of the real status of installation. Unlike McAfee, the "updating" icon on the toolbar doesn't even give an approximate percentage to indicate progress.
Obviously an anti-virus package lives or dies on its ability to prevent viruses. Being unable to even install the damn thing, I cannot comment on BitDefender's effectiveness, but its thoroughly unprofessional installation and configuration process does not bode very well. Next year I'm almost certainly going with Microsoft Security.
At the time of writing, I've just sent an email to BitDefender's technical support team. Their claim that technical support is available "around the clock" is a bit of a fib, as I got an automated response saying I should be contacted within 48 hours. I'll keep you posted as to their reply and whether they can sort this mess out.
Update; finally got BitDefender installed last night after waiting a couple more hours. I guess that's BitDefender's strange new interpretation of the term "shortly". Oh and the tutorial doesn't work either. The installation process was a right pain and will probably put many users off. Budget half a day or so to accomplish this. I'll keep you posted regarding its effectiveness but, given its woefully unprofessional installation process, I'm not that optimistic and will have Microsoft Security waiting in the wings as backup.
Further update; the full system scan crashes after a couple of hours and has never managed to complete yet. You cannot stop and cancel a scan, as the dialog just keeps coming back. Attempting to update the virus definitions results in "an error occurred during the update (-1011)". Just check out the Bitdefender forum for the hundreds of serious problems users have experienced with this thoroughly unprofessional product. Avoid.
I used it on a fresh install on a medium spec'd laptop, running Vista Home Ed with 2G of memory. After the install and all it's updates were complete, I was left with a nicely operating machine. At this stage, I had to install the loathsome but unfortunately essential anti-virus pack. It was Bitdefender's turn this time. The installation went smoothly - I didn't bother with all the fancy new video's that they've included as a help file it seems and chose to simple rely on good old gut instinct. A quick bit of whipping through the setting under the advanced mode and we're ready to go. I must point out that it does set itself up a bit too securely in my opinion with the scan setup being too frequent.
The way I judge the effect of an AV is it's effect on start-up time. I refer to the amount of time it takes for the PC to bootup and the HD light to stop flickering. Before Bitdefender, the machine was reasonable fully booting up in 2 minutes (nothing fantastic but this is Vista on 2Gb). Post Bitdefender, this went up to 8 minutes+! The machine becomes available to work after a few minutes but since it's so busy with Bitdefender, don't even bother trying.
It is true that you could say that I'm not comparing it to another AV on that machine, but 8 minutes is a bit extreme. A bit of investigation showed that VSSERV.exe with choking the machine. It all seemed to be tied in with updating itself. It also seems to be an issue that is inherent thoughout the Bitdefender series. In my case, I disabled the automatic update and told the user how to do it manually periodically. Give it 12 months and then it's coming out.
BitDefender Anti-Virus 2011, 3 Users, 1 Year Subscription (PC)
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