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Cris.

If you hate BD so much why do you persist in posting here? Go get another AV solution and whine somewhere else.

BD fared well in those test results. Now, if they could only iron out the annonying little things that detract from the overall user experience, BD would be a world-beating product.

Its been almost 3 months for me now, and yes, I have had a few irritating things happen, but overal the product works well.

Better than many others.

that is Not the real/official test, the official proactive test will be out/released the 1 December.

Let's wait and see for it then.

On the contrary. The test is VERY real and VERY official. But it's not a detection test, it's a Performance Test, to reveal the overall performance decrease in a system's speed after installing a specific product.

It has nothing to do with "what it catches", but only with "how much realtime scanning will affect the performance".

And BitDefender scored very well in this test.

Under extremely controlled conditions (even temperature and humidity were controlled), on identical computers (Intel Core2Duo 8400, 2GB ram, WinXP SP3), the tests involved day-to-day operations like:

• file copy
• file archiving
• audio/video encoding and transcoding
• boot-up times

• File Copy:
  • +39% (default settings)
  • +61% (High settings)
• Archiving and Unarchiving
  • +10% (default)
  • +65% (high)
• Encoding/transcoding
  • +7% (default)
  • +15% (high)
• Boot time
  • +32% (default)
  • +46% (high)
• 
  Overall
  • 
    +22% (very fast) (default settings)
  • 
    +47% (fast) (high settings)

These times are well over other some competitor's times with supposedly have a higher detection rate.

And, as AV-Comparatives showed, for the end-user, we're not only talking about detection rates, because a product with 100% detection rate, and 100% resource usage is completely useless.

For the end-user the performance decrease after installing a product is very important, and BitDefender achieved to be a very light-weight antivirus, with less than 1/4 performance loss after installation, with default settings.

Yes, the performance loss with high settings is almost 1/2, but default settings offers all the protection one needs most of the times. Aggressive settings are meant to be used in extreme situations.

So Good work, BitDefender! And keep it up!

Cris.

I don't wonder why BD didn't want 2009 tested, I know.

http://www.chip.de/artikel/Vergleichstest-...4_33275548.html

http://www.chip.de/artikel/Bitdefender-Int...t_33075378.html

BD2009:

- Malware detection 97,6 %

- Ad- & Spyware detection 88,0 % (place 7 from 7)

- New updates: after 4 hours (place 7 from 7)

- Memory: 82 MB (place 7 from 7)

- GUI : Too many text

Winners: [removed] & [removed]

- New updates: after 4 hours (place 7 from 7)

On the site, this is the response to new threats, and it's MAX 4h (which means it can be lower). Updates are made once every hour (and this is said right on the site).

- Memory: 82 MB (place 7 from 7)

The memory consumption is relative. BitDefender uses memory between 10MB, and 60-70, depending on what it does. When it scans files, the consumption grows, when in idle, it's very low.

And extreme situations (like 60-70MB usage) appear only in extreme situation (like a lot of scanning in realtime, which happens rather rarely). Most of the times, BitDefender stays below 20MB (I often check the resource consumption of it's processes, and rarely see it go over this value).

- GUI : Too many text

What kind of argument is this?

Also, you "forgot" to say these:

Protection against unknown malware = very good

False Positives = max 2 cases

Internet download time (370 MB) = 32 seconds

So basically, ance, you are just trying to cause flames in this topic, by posting off-topic (this topic is about a specific test, and you post other things), quoting only the things that make BitDefender look bad (and just ignoring the rest) and post two winners that only God knows how they won, because the two links that you posted are in German.

So please, to everyone, keep it on-topic, and don't flame over this. If you want to comment, take into consideration all aspects (not only the ones that suit you).

Cris.

This is no surprise, i expected bitdefender to get good results