buridan

Because I'm not the only one effected by this. Bitdefender can help out numerous people by replying here instead. Also, by asking in the forums, and not in chat, potential customers can see how Bitdefender responds to our complaints that they install popups on our computers. Exactly! I WAS a Bitdefender user years ago. I…

It is strange however that all thsese problems happended to you, on Vista machines. Not at all strange. Vista has been giving AV developers fits from the very beginning and apparently continues to do so - particularly for BD developers. Again, there's a good reason why Microsoft doesn't advertise Vista as "BitDefender…

Chris, What part of my note to Pk77 didn't you understand? In plain English: That someone finds it necessary to reveal that their computer is working just fine (on a thread started by Orphan who's having problems with BD and not Povertee) is completely useless information for those of us unfortunate blokes whose computers…

I see no benefit in questioning the motives or loyalties of the moderators/evangelists. It's clear they're simply volunteers trying to help other BD users and I'm glad they're doing it. Nevertheless, the frustration that Orphan and others are expressing here concerns the unresponsiveness of a company that is more than…

By far the best thread on this or any forum in quite some time. I'm a former BD customer who would really like to renew my subscription but cannot because BD, as Orphan most elegantly points out, is INCOMPATABLE WITH VISTA. Third party software is supposed to work with an OS, not the other way around - hence, the "third…

dprozzo, If I'm not mistaken, Vista's service pack (sp1) is still in beta and only recently went public. BD v.10 was dreadful on Vista and I would suspect even worse with sp1 in beta. I doubt that even tech support would be able to help.

My WaitToKill... has been set to 1000 from the start, including other tweaks. I've been playing with BD for the past couple of days, without modifying the system, and the issues I've described only emerged after installing BD. As I noted, I think the same sort of results would have happened with any antivirus program, and…

Thanks Niels for the response. I actively monitor my startup items, always have, and have used that startup list for years, well before Castlecops took it over. The slowdown issues are not Vista but directly related to BD, as they have in the past. In fact, I've just had my first two 3 minute shutdowns ever with Vista. My…