Bitdefender Trafficlight Questions About Versions And Future

Hello,

Bitdefender TrafficLight Full seems to still be in permanent beta and seems to have stop/stopped being updated to new versions since/in at least 2011:

http://www.use.com/showoriginal.pl?set=d49...4e6d19a&p=1

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4a3dd137...sis/1363800784/

http://download.bitdefender.com/npd/traffi...ebInstaller.exe

Has Bitdefender TrafficLight Full been abandoned/cancelled/retired, if not, will it ever leave beta and/or will it ever get a new version?

Bitdefender TrafficLight Firefox (Version: 0.2.4 | October 30, 2012) is once again outdated compared to Bitdefender TrafficLight Chrome (Version: 0.2.10 | March 15, 2013):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/trafficlight/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/t...ednfoenal?hl=en

Last time it took months for the Firefox version to be updated, will this happen again & if so why (many other Firefox extensions do not take this long to have their updates approved by the Firefox Team, which was the excuse/reason mentioned last time for the several month delay)?

Or is the Firefox version going to stop being updated like the Full version?

Why is TrafficLight development so un-even/un-balanced/imbalanced (I can understand some imbalance between the versions but imbalance in months & years is too much imbalance in my opinion), to avoid this, why not just use/develop the Full version which has cross-browser support, to avoid this imbalance/splitting of resources/time?

Or is/are all version of TrafficLight going to be retired this year?

Thank you,

-John Jr

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goodjohnjr

How long you are using BD trafficlight? I use BD free and it doesn't stop the access to eicar test file.

I started using Bitdefender TrafficLight Full off & on when it first came out, it would cause my browser/website loading to slow down & it would cause some websites to fail to load sometimes forcing me to refresh pages sometimes & it probably used up more RAM/CPU than I liked, and I stopped using it in 2011 when I noticed that it was no longer being updated/it never left beta/these issues were not fixed/et cetera; and I started using the Firefox & Chrome versions off & on until I made this thread.

I have stopped using it/them again after seeing the Firefox version once again left out-dated for a while, the full version abandoned without warning/explanation, no replies to my thread & general lack of fixes/support/development, failure of it/them to block a lot of spam/scam/phishing/et cetera websites, and no clear/easy/efficient way to help them improve the database through reporting missed websites by email/web form/forum/et cetera since those methods do not seem to help so much, website lacking links to the forum or form to submit missed links/false positives even after recommending this a year or two ago, and a variety of other reasons.

I have also noticed strange things with Bitdefender Free Antivirus that bothered me enough to stop using it as well after seeing it miss certain websites/files, it failing to block certain things that Bitdefender blocks on VirusTotal, slow forum responses & sometimes no response even when the forum is not busy, reporting things do not seem to help improve the product much or at all, and a variety of other reasons.

Good luck having your questions answered Liubomirwm and maybe some of my questions will be answered as well, I think that Bitdefender TrafficLight and Bitdefender Free Antivirus have potential, I hope to see them reach that potential one day.

-John Jr

goodjohnjr

I will contact Bitdefender from here: http://www.bitdefender.com/support/contact-us.html and will give them a link to this thread( 8 days no reply?!?!?) because i also want to know what are they doing with Trafficlight.

Thank you Liubomirwm.

goodjohnjr

Quote from Bitdefender:

"The reference number assigned to your e-mail is 201303281004503. We strongly advise that you keep this number for future reference.

You can expect to receive a response from us within the next 48 hours.

We look forward to assisting you,

BitDefender Customer Care"

I hope we receive a reply soon. If they send me something on email i will post it immediately.

Okay, thank you Liubomirwm , but you might want to keep that reference number private & remove it from this thread.

goodjohnjr

Hi goodjohnjr,

This is what i got from Bitdefender

"Dear Liubomir,

Thank you for your interest in our security solution, Bitdefender.

I would like to take advantage of this opportunity to convey our apologies in regards to the situation created.

Regarding your concern, I kindly inform you that we are still updating the browser versions.

For more information I kindly suggest you to follow the link below:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/t...l/details?hl=en

Also, I would like to inform you that it has the same update as the paid products.

Liubomir, should there be any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by replying to this email."

Best regards,

Maja Ololovska

Bitdefender Technical Support Engineer

PS.: If you have any question(s) i will forward them to BD.

Thank you for sharing that Liubomirwm.

I see that none of my questions/concerns on this thread were answered there or here yet as expected but maybe they will answer some of them on this thread eventually, either way I am not worried about it too much.

-John Jr

goodjohnjr

Hi again Goodjohnjr,

I have something you might want to read:

"Dear Customer,

Thank you for your interest in our security solution, Bitdefender.

The Trafficlight extension is still an active one from a Development point of view and we haven't officially released it because there are still features to be implemented in it. We will take it out of Beta once we are confident it meets the Bitdefender criteria and standards.

Should you need any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,

Tudor Florescu

Bitdefender Technical Support Engineer

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"

Not a good answer,but...

Best wishes!

Thank you for the update Liubomirwm, I agree, that is definitely not a good answer; but at least they answered one of my questions, that is better than nothing, but I do wonder why the forums here seem to be abandoned mostly now in a way even worse than before.

Anyway(s), have a good day.

-John Jr