Real-time Protection(scan Accessed Files)

Hello,

As far as I remember, BD2008 didn't have any options to set realtime scanning to read-only/write-only/both.

However, BD2009 does have this option, and it's called Scan only new and changed files (Antivirus -> Custom level). Enable that option, disable the option Scan inside archives, check Do not scan network shares and see how it works. Basically, set BitDefender to Default (not to Aggressive), because it offers as much protection as you need.

Cris.

Cris,

I am having a bit defender antivirus 2009 on a Vista system. Installation and initial updation went smooth but just within 2 days i find that my real time scan is disabled. I tried checking out all possible ways but it just wont let me. I guess it has something to do with vsserv.exe, checked it out in the services console but i cant start., stop or do anything with it. Even that process is not running in task manager. Please help me out to get the RTS running again

All the problems can be solved. Just give it a bit of time, some of the users " /> don't care much for waiting for the devs to fix or point out the problem. So, hopefully soon there will be an answer to this. Also consider the fact that Vista is way to buggy at the moment, so this may not be BD's fault. I personally will not get Vista untill 2 years from now, when they end support for XP (hopefully by then 50% of the bugs would be worked out). I just went to 2009 from 2008, and believe me BD did a good job with their software, unfortunatly, it's MicroSoft that's causing the headache, you just need to tweak the OS... Unfortunately past Windows 3.1, MS has been putting out half-arsed products, making you pay to experience top of the line bugs... But everything is fixable, and doable even with their screw ups... Just unfortunate that a huge corp like MS makes everyone else do their work for them. Though there is no other way around it, if you want something done right you need to do it yourself... Fortunately some people are gracious enough to share their knowledge(as was in my case).

I can tell you how to get BD to work(as intended) in WinXP pro SP3. As far as Vista goes, albeit i cant help, but i don't think it would be much different from XP. So you may want to experiment. I can say this... BD setup is not user friendly, but once it IS set up, I doubt there is a better and more flexible AV out there, at least for more experienced user(those of us who do more than just check e-mail).

Hopefully in a couple of days, there will be something you can play with.

BD 2008 is still better than BD 2009 ,which is still buggy and in some configuration will generate lots of strange bugs.

BD 2009 works better on multiprocessor computers from what i observed .Disableing the vulnerability check (BD 2009-advanced settiongs) may speed up the boot up of your computer as well as the settings recommended by Cris.

Sm3K3R check your PM, there is a little explanation to this. I do have vuln check off, it just scans things and reminds you to update. And i have gotten no bugs, with the way I have it now, then again i don't use outlook, seems like that causes problems. I am not saying the software is perfect, but i find it to be way more stable than BD2008. I have WinXP Pro SP3, Intel P4 3Ghz(single processor), 2 GiGs of Ram. Yes, the boot up is about 3-5 seconds longer now, but as far as everything else, I dont even have to make the scan a background/low priority process. Compared to 2008, 2009 is a huge improvement with resource management. I can run bittorent, full screen game, and BD2009 at the same time without any slowdowns. The ONLY "configuration", that has to be worked out, is the OS configuration. And that's not too hard, just time consuming.