They just released a new version of there FREE great antivirus > v7.0
It’s a verry good tool to use as a back-up scanner.
It offers NO on-access provider (guard) and therefore its no good to use as your main AV. (it’s useless as premier protection as it has no real time protection)
But it offers daily updates, sheduler, quarantine, report files, support, etc…
And a really strong unpacking engine !
It works perfect beside AVAST 4.0 ! (no problems at all…:))
hey waldo,seen your thread on bit defender and downloaded it to use with the #1 resident protector and anti-virus program avast,they seem to work well together since as you said bit defender has no resident protection scanner,just wanted to say thanks for posting the thread about the program.
just seeing if anyone knows,i ran a scan with free bit defender and it scanned 130,000 files,now when i run a scan with avast home it only finds 30,000+ files.why is there so much of a difference,i have them both set to scan my whole computer + archives?am i doing something wrong with the avast scan because i would like avast to scan every file also,thanks brian
I have sent (e-mail) some ZIP files to Petr Kurtin describing some errors on handling these files. If it helps…
I´m not sure if they concern with this forum… 8)
The discrepancy is largely caused by the fact BitDefender decompresses and scans inside Help files (CHM) and counts every single help page of the Help as a tested file. So, e.g., the 49 MS Office Help files located in
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\1033
are presented as about 76,200 files by BitDefender, but only 49 by avast!!
i think the evaluation kit is bit defenders pro version(pay for)but you can try it 1st for a limited time,go to their site and click downloads and i think its under free products not evaluation
Thanks Vlk and Waldo. I confim this behavior on BitDefender and avast. I post to Peter (avast support team) some zip files that can be “false positives” of BitDefender (I hope, because avast does not warn them as virus files)