I post this at the forum now, as i haven't heard from support, although i've sent two enquiries.
When the time came to renew my license for BitDefender Internet Security 2010, i then decided to upgrade to the 2011 version instead.
First of all, i have had a good experience with the 2010 version, which i haven't had any problems with, but since installing the 2011 version, i've experienced a lot of annoying issues with this product.
First there was the issue with the notification of the renewal of the license, which was then corrected. Then something weird happens, as during startup, just before entering the desktop, there comes a black screen with the message that: "The antivirus installed are cleaning your system" -and i must say it have cleaned my system well, because now i don't have the ATI Control Center and the PowerIso symbols in the tray area anymore. Furthermore the SoundMax driver is apparently erased as well, as the icon in the tray area now have a red line over it and it says that no SoundMax driver is installed. My homepage in Internet Explorer is set to Google, but after this cleaning of my system, it keeps on changing it back to the empty page: about:blank. Then another peculiar thing is, that all the files now has there filename visible, as an ex. if you make a new text file, it now shows ".TXT".
I had to make a whole new fresh reinstall of my system, only to learn as soon as i installed BitDefender, it all happened again. So i can for sure say that it's an issue with BitDefender. I've runned different antivrus and spyware scans on a new clean system without finding anything.
I'm runing BitDefender in "Expert Mode", but BitDefender don't ask me of which programs i will allow through the firewall anymore or in fact since installing the 2011 version.
Now i've reinstalled Windows for the second time and i'm now running without any protection, as i don't want to install BitDefender before i can be assured these problems wont accour again. I'm sure i can have my money refunded, but i really want to continue using BitDefender, so i hope you can help me out with these problems.
System:
Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800
Harddisk: 2 x 1TB Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD103SJ in RAID 0 + 1TB in Non RAID mode
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q Deluxe Motherboard
Graphic card: ASUS EAH5770 CuCore
RAM: 8GB in Dual Channel mode
Hope to hear from you soon...