Please issue Bitdefender for Linux home users

Techguy5

Please Bitdefender Home User team, please re-issue a Bitdefender AV for Linux home users.

I have been working with several people this past year (12/2023), installing and fine tuning Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin). (These are folks who previously used Windows and/or Macs.) And the only AV product for home user, which I've found and is still alive, and is NOT a Command line terminal scanner product, is ClamAV & Clam-TK. (TK being the UI 'version').

Other products are either on-demand CLI scanners or are for business enterprise corporate 'Endpoint' situations. (As ESET, Kaspersky, Sophos, Mcafee, Avast, AVG, TrendMicro, etc.)

I would love to have a Bitdefender for Linux home users. I've used and trusted Bitdefender for Windows PCs for years (decades). It would not even have to be free AV, just reasonably priced for the home user (& not a business end-point product).

Thank you.

Flexx

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/98362/please-issue-bitdefender-for-linux-home-users

The new update to this post: I got in touch with the Bitdefender support, who further got in touch with Bitdefender developers, and below is what they currently think about Linux antimalware for home users.

Regards

Petersl

Hi,

I second this request.

I would defiantly like to see bitdefender being supported on Linux, I'm planning to eventually switch to Linux because of Microsoft recall in windows 11 and Microsoft insisting that you use a Microsoft account instead of a local account. At the moment this can still be bypassed but for how long until Microsoft closes all the workarounds.

Having bitdefender antivirus with firewall or at least the bitdefender firewall be able to be installed on Linux would defiantly make me switch to Linux now.

Nunzio77

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/comment/344595#Comment_344595

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Flexx

The feedback has already been conveyed to the Bitdefender developers. While they have received multiple inputs via the Bitdefender Community Forum, they are also conducting an internal assessment of global market demand. Since the development of any product requires extensive research and development, they want to ensure that resources for the Linux product are allocated strategically and in alignment with market needs.

User feedback, particularly from the Bitdefender Community Forum, is being taken into consideration. However, the product will only move forward in development once the Bitdefender developers are confident in its market viability.

The Bitdefender staff and moderators on the Bitdefender Community Forum sincerely appreciate your feedback regarding the potential development of a Bitdefender Linux product for home users. The Bitdefender Community Forum will be updated as soon as there are any official developments on this matter. At this time, however, no specific timeline has been established.

Once again, thank you for your valuable feedback.

This post has been closed to further comments.

Regards