I installed Bitdefender Internet Security 2012 two days ago, after running 2011 without problems (and I have lost count of how many previous versions of Bitdefender I have had). I let the installer for 2012 uninstall 2011 and reboot before installing itself, as recommended on the Bitdefendeer website. My system has now become unbearably slow. Internet browsing is almost painful, especially Google searches, whatever browser I use. Even typing in a search box is difficult. But also, applications are slow to load and opening multiple applications at once causes some of them to hang for a period. I'm running 64 bit Windows 7 Professional on an i7-2600 CPU with 8 GB of RAM. It is, or was, a very fast system.
Any ideas would be welcome, before I give up on this and go back to Bitdefender 2011.
I'm quite worried now because I have always enthusiastically recommended Bitdefender to anyone looking for a new AV. I know two of my friends started using it fairly recently on my recommendation and I hope they aren't having similar problems or they will hate me!
