Reviews of BitDefender Internet Security

1. 
   followthewabbitT

   Reviewing 10.2 (Sep 16, 2009)

   I agree with all those critcicising Bitdefender. It wouldn't be worth the 20 euro to do everything they ask me to do to help fix their horrible software. Never again. It slows stuff down, it gives you messages about updating stuff you don't want. It fails to update. Customer support is awful It is truly abysmal. it didn't used to be bad a few years ago - but it is now. Do not purchase.
2. 
   ricksquires

   Reviewing 10.2 (Jul 4, 2009)

   bitdefender is crap. The worst product i have ever purchased and the worst customer service ever. You have been warned, stay away!!!! Don't buy it!!!
3. 
   why hello there

   Reviewing 10.2 (Feb 4, 2008)

   I just got done becoming disgusted with BitDefender Internet Security 2008. I don't know why this posting hasn't been updated, but I did try the latest version.
   
   The AV has good detection, yes. But there were so many serious bugs I just couldn't stand to keep using it. For one thing, each time an application needed to connect out, the firewall would alert to the DNS attempt (a good thing), but would not put up an alert on the connection attempt itself. Invariably, the application would time out, and the connection would fail--except for the rare application that offered to retry the connection. Serious firewall flaws. I've never seen such an issue in any other.
   
   The firewall alerts have "A" and "B" as accelerator keys. This means that if you happen to be typing when an alert appears, you can very easily accidentally (and unknowingly) Allow or Block a program's connection attempt. This is not far-fetched; it actually happened to me within a half hour of running BitDefender Internet Security 2008 (fortunately, it wasn't malware that was accidentally allowed).
   
   The anti-spam component didn't work at all with Thunderbird on my system. Oh, the toolbar was there in the message windows, but none of the emails I received were scanned, the email/spam counts remained at 0 the entire time, and the spam test string (from the BitDefender readme) wasn't detected. Serious anti-spam flaws.
   
   I noticed huge, random slowdowns. Sometimes, running Thunderbird took eons. Sometimes, merely deleting a message in Thunderbird took eons. Not always. Fun stuff, this randomness.
   
   By default, BitDefender doesn't update if a scan is running. The problem is that if you start a scan, then stop it and close the scan window, it thinks the scan is still taking place--until you restart BitDefender or reboot. This means if you start a scan and then cancel it, BitDefender won't update itself until you restart. Serious updater flaws.
4. 
   CyberDoc999

   Reviewing 10.2 (Jan 9, 2008)

   This is the worst program I have ever used!
   I gave me dozens of false positives that kaspersky and NOD32 never found.... I rate it zero.
5. 
   tspcar12

   Reviewing 10.2 (Nov 10, 2007)

   I currently use Kaspersky but it doesn't play nice with other security programs like outpost, Spyware doctor or Spybot. Bit defenders gets good reviews in independent testing and leak tests and I find no driver conflicts with this program as opposed to Paspersky or Outpost. As far as Nod32 is concern, it is a good free program but when compared to the ones you have to buy it doesn't fare as well.

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