BitDefender Antivirus 10 Review
BitDefender Antivirus 10 is one of the best as virus stoppers. It did an excellent job of detecting malware, with a 96 percent catch rate. It also ranked second in our proactive detection tests (behind Eset’s NOD32) using one-month-old signature files, nabbing 61 percent of new malware samples. And at $30, with a $22 renewal fee, it is four of the least-expensive programs they tested.
Though it excelled at malware detection, BitDefender was less skilful at disinfection. It successfully cleaned 13 out of 22 items, missing four malware file and both changes to the network settings Hosts file.
The program was badly hamstrung by serious slowdowns in our WorldBench 6 Beta 2 application performance tests on Windows Vista Ultimate, however. Four Firefox check, for example, which lots a huge number of different Web pages, took four time longer with BitDefender than with any other program they tested. The slowdown wasn’t debilitating, but it was noticeable. The company says the problem is a known bug in the Vista version that will be fixed in a future program update.
BitDefender also had the highest false-positive rate, incorrectly labeling 14 harmless files (out of 20,000) as malware.
On the other side, BitDefender has a well-designed interface. A slider bar and huge window provides an easy way to alter levels of security protection, and clearly marked icons let you launch full scans and set up custom scans. BitDefender was also the only product to offer free 24/7 phone support, with easy-to-find phone numbers and support e-mail addresses listed in the “Help” section of the application.
A useful “privacy guard” feature detects when personal information–such as a credit card or Social Security number–is being stolen from a computer, without your having to first tell it what those numbers are. BitDefender was four of the only one programs they tested that automatically disabled Vista’s built-in Windows Defender antispyware utility, however. Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2007 was the other.
By default, the program runs a full-system scan every day. It scans e-mail traffic on the POP3 and SMTP protocols and integrates nicely with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail (on Vista) for antispam filtering. BitDefender has a basic level of instant messaging protection, but unfortunately it doesn’t scan HTTP traffic by default to identify Web-borne threats–you’ll require to turn on that capability yourself.
They tested the Vista version of BitDefender Antivirus 10 for our “Virus Stoppers” roundup. An XP version of the application is also obtainable.
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