Bitdefender Photon™ Technology

Bitdefender Scan Technology Now Powered by Photon

Many ingredients are needed to make an antivirus solution stand out from the crowd: the number of detected threats, the update frequency, speed and impact on your system’s performance are among most important differentiators from an end user’s perspective.

Introducing Photon, a new scanning technology that revolutionizes the way your computer gets scanned and monitored without bogging it down. Built on top of the SmartDB technology we introduced in 2012, Photon adds a critical component in the application reputation system of SmartDB: the Cloud.

In the IT security world, applications can be broken down in two main categories: those we trust and the ones we know nothing about. Photon offloads the antivirus scanner the task of processing known files that have not been altered from their original form by malware.

The Photon technology gradually “discovers” the currently installed applications on the user’s computer and molds on every PC configuration individually by learning which processes need monitoring and which ones do not. The result is a lower number of files that need constant supervision and less system resource spent on watching perfectly safe applications, which allows the scanner to fully concentrate resources on potentially malicious files.

The independent series of tests, carried out in May by AV-Comparatives, reveals Bitdefender performance is “Very Fast” regardless of the operations performed on the system, while still not missing a single infection.

They say that the little details are vital. Little things make big things happen. Photon is that improvement that gives a whole new perspective on scanning and resources. The technology will ship with the New Bitdefender launching today June 26th 2013.

Photon was actually introduced earlier in Bitdefender 2013, but since then the company has made major improvements while minimally impacting performance. Now, Photon officially becomes its own product component.

1. My main thought is that you are so incredibly talented in your understanding of malware and exploits. Your web page, videos and understanding testify to your knowledge and competency. Yet...I think the questions are to hard, deep in "why this exploit..." or "I found this", compared to "normal" uses who ask "how do I" or "what is Auto Scan" you're asking "why does this.." which can be harder for Bitdefender to answer or acknowledge (for whatever reason). Yet, I know they read your posts, and maybe consider what your asking "in house".

I agree with your former statement about Rampant, he is really very talented and experienced user than us. I have a great regard for his knowledge. But I dis-agree with your later statement about the replying to our queries. Rather you didn't check the forum since 2008 or you have some favored and biased thinking for the BD support which I can't understand. In the past there were many brilliant representatives from the support, I will mention the name of only two Cris and Carmen Carnev, who really have the knowledge about their product and well versed with the technological aspects and have excellent way to verbalize the knowledge to make the user understand what is asked. And by the way the how it is possible that the persons who developed the esteemed product (and are engaged in this development since long) are not able to answer at all and even don't bother to give some satisfactory response.

[*]The threads you linked to, are all in the 2013 forum. You did receive some answers from Christian, and some of the threads are newer, yet, they're all in the 2013 forum, in which case the forum support has fallen off a bit cp. to 2011-12 forum. You can look at many unanswered posts especially in the Firewall, Antivirus sub forums compared to the 2011-2012 forum that was better maintained. We had many people give up, voice exasperation etc. for unanswered threads/posts. I'm hoping Bitdefender will turn that around in this New forum, with this nice new release. I also have faith in Georgia, that she is trying and will be a great Tech Support Mod, she has posted some very informative posts to questions asked.

I start using Bitdefender since 2010 version, and also posting since then and got proper, prompt and satisfactory replies till the release of the silent version of Bitdefender, 2012. Since then they introduced the silence in the product 2012, that silence is also induced by unknown means in to their support as well. And the response is either absent or not satisfactory and not in detail. Since the release of that silent product, they are not willing to share the knowledge of their product and are not willing to give some control over their product. There are many issues/bugs/features posted by me which are un-answered and no one bother to reply in a timely fashion or give some satisfactory response and they go un-noticed for ever whether they are posted in 2012 forum or in 2013 forum. Actually you mostly don't posted the issues/bugs etc rather you only help the users on the forum to fix their problems like Moderators do, so you may can't understand or feel if the user's issues/concerns get un-responded since long.

it seems that the forum have "Simplex Communication" type...means the users keep posting their issues/features/concerns etc and most of them don't get replies.

You can check the other sub-forums too e.g Rescue CD forum, Malware Area etc. Now there are responded by no one.

1. Why would you stay...maybe to just give up on the idea of having your questions answered by BD, but maybe change your focus if your going to stay here to answer posts. With your incredible insights and experience, you could help many. YET, I know you have a web page to run, research to do, and clients to maintain, so I'm sure that idea would be pretty low on your list.

We were here just for the positive hope that the time come in future when we got prompt and satisfactory replies. But this time we may end up our hopes and quit. If I still here in future, then my aim is to seek knowledge from here but without interest in the product.

I know that we are off-topic here, may get warned or suspend as usual