I have seen some older posts here where members have successfully used previous versions of BD A/V scanner with Avast, but haven’t seen anything current. Is anyone using the latest v10? Any problems?
For the current version there isn’t a free one. You need to pay.
For the on-demand scanning only, and free, you need to use older version.
This is BitDefender policy.
Thanks Tech. So, is v10 the older version? ??? That’s the one I DL from the Free Products section on their site.
It’s new to me… I’ll take a look. I thought the version 10 will only be available if the new 11 (payed) is released.
Here’s where I got it from:
http://www.bitdefender.com/site/view/Download-Free-Products.html
Thanks. It’s like I’ve thought.
They released the BitDefender 2008 Suite and the version 10 became free 8)
I’ll test it.
Great! The problem I’ve encountered is two BD services (BDRsDrv and BDFsDrv) are not starting because the files are missing. I think this is just a clean-up problem from when they changed the program from paid to free. It appears there are still registry entries calling for these services (probably some real-time protection) but the files themselves were deleted from the free version. This hasn’t seemed to compromise the program, though, and you won’t get any pop-up messages. I first found out about it when I noticed two error messages in Event Viewer, always corresponding to a boot/ reboot. Others have noticed this, too, and I added to their thread on the BD Forum. No definitive answer yet.
Let me know how you make out, Tech.
Hello Jahn
I’ve been using BitDefender 10 on demand with Avast 4.7 with no problems, just remember to pause provider Avast Standard Shield while scanning with BitDefender and then resume provider when you are done. Only issue I had with BitDefender was 2 false positives terminator.exe (part of HP/bin supposed to be there) and wildtangent part of the games update program. It moved both to the virus vault which I restored with no problem.
Working here as it should.
I’ve updated, booted and now scanning…
Just notice a new registration policy… one year…
I couldn’t find the ‘actions’ settings when a virus is found.
On older versions you could choose two actions (repair > report only, for instance).
It’s dangerous not having this possibility and having to follow repair > move to quarantine automatically because of false positives.
Take care!
Thank you John and Tech. No errors in Event Viewer>System?
Tech, if you haven’t found it yet, those settings are at Anti-virus tab> Quarantine tab> Settings.
Where?
Sorry Tech :-[, what you’re looking for is at: Anti-virus tab> Scan tab> Click the Properties icon to the left of each task> Overview tab> Click Custom> scroll to Action to take…
Do you have any errors in Event Viewer> System? I’m getting two 7000 errors since I installed BD. ???
I’m not on that computer now… I’ll take a look later.
Which are they? Can you post an error message sample?
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 9/12/2007
Time: 11:08:38 AM
User: N/A
Computer: YES
Description:
The BDFsDrv service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 9/12/2007
Time: 11:08:38 AM
User: N/A
Computer: YES
Description:
The BDRsDrv service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
The missing files are bdfsdrv.sys and bdrsdrv.sys, and are not in the C:\ProgramFiles\Softwin\BitDefender10 folder. As I mentioned before, others are having this same issue, but the BD forum hasn’t provided any answers yet. I DL BD twice to make sure I didn’t have a bad DL.
Jahn,
found another bitdefender forum while looking for help for your problem http://bitdforum.com/ that seems to be more active then the official site, you do need to register to access this forum.
hope this helps
Indeed it’s there. Thanks. They kept the configurability level. That’s good.
Hmmm… some errors, not that many, related to missing files that prevent sevices: BDFsDrv and BDRsDrv.
I don’t like that it installs four services… two much for on-demand only… I’ll set them to manual start and make a bat (script) file.
Thanks John, I signed up and looked around. I found one post (9/7/07) related to my issue , but no replies on the thread.
Hmmm... some errors, not that many, related to missing files that prevent sevices: BDFsDrv and BDRsDrv. I don't like that it installs four services... two much for on-demand only... I'll set them to manual start and make a bat (script) file.So you ARE getting the same two errors? On XP or Vista? I'm using XP.
After I’ve set all services to manual, both XP and Vista logs are clean from these errors.