Softwin Bit Defender

MAM is excellent free anti spyware with good detection rates whilst being easy on the system rescourses.

Get it as it makes a great security backup to any main anti-virus program.

It can take it`s time when scanning single folders/items but it`s great detection rates and fast download time make it a serious must for everyone.

Before anyone wastes their money on bitdefender visit their own forum and see how many probles it generates for its users. Problems that support cant find solutions for. http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=14764

Brillant Antivirus ever seen

the latest Softwin bitdefender product range 2010 is unfinished and should still be a beta being tested, many parts of it simply do not work properly including the automatic update, i upgraded from the 2008 product and may go back to it as at least it did work, if you are thinking of buying it check out the bit defender forums and see for yourself how many things are wrong with it

The Softwin Bit Defender works well for me, like all the extras supplied with the program

Softwin Bit Defender started to play up after a short period of time, contacted suprt services several times but never received a reply to any emails sent

I have used Softwin Bitdefender for over 2 years now and in general, once setup, it works quite well. However I am less enamoured of the more recent 2009 version. It is much more intrusive - with no real extra benefit. It also adds about 3 minutes to my boot time. Most important of all, it doesn ' t seem to protect my system very well.

Just 2 days after Christmas, my work laptop became infected by a series of Trojans and worms. I immediately did a scan but Bitdefender didn't find or remove anything (?) " even though it was now totally controlled by several Trojans.. I then tried to send an email to their support and this is where I got problems.

Bitdefender has now instituted a very poor 'help yourself' support facility. I am sure this is in order to save costs (by preventing access to their support). Regardless of this, it is ineffective, difficult to use and ultimately useless. I finally managed to navigate my way past this and sent an email documenting the problem to Bitdefender. I duly received an auto response telling me they would get back to me within 48 hours.

Well despite setting their level of service very low, they still haven't managed to meet this. In fact it is now 12 days later and they still haven't contacted me, In the meantime, the Trojans totally took over the pc and I was forced to reinstall it from scratch.

So, all in all, I was wondering, if I was protected by Bitdefender, how did I get infected in the first place? Looking at their site there is no mention of this type of Trojan (or any others actually), but I did find out about it from all of the other vendor ' s sites. Anyway, once I was infected, I expected Bitdefender support to help me fix things and instead I was simply ignored.

I would recommend checking out other products (and their service) before buying.

Antivirus: good results compare with Zone Alarm

Firewall: after training is non-intrusive and has Game mode

Antispan: works really well and uses "white" / "black" lists

2 licence: one price.. for both computers I have...

Updates are easy to apply (auto or manual)

Good detection and protection for the money... It needs average resorces & space for installation and running...

Strangled my pc in my opinion, also did not detect viruses that a FREE av installed to replace this product found. I have had this IS2008 installed for about a month, having nearly a year left on my subscription I have now un-installed. I do not recommend this product.

After enduring other products that made my PC run like porridge for years and being completely baffled by their mysterious command modules - Bit Defender is a breath of fresh air to me (the average home PC user) who hasn't time for anything that does not do a reasonable job - Now! ... and ...Every time I or soemone else switches on our home PC!