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Complaint: BitDefender Internet Security
Innuendo:
All the free solutions seem to have more false positives than the paid solutions even ones from the same company. I figure the fine-tuning of the detection engines is one of those value-added features you get with a paid subscription.
If you aren't dead-set on a security suite you might want to give MS's new Security Essentials a look. It's an AV that's very light on resources. Since it's so new, though, it's probably too early to tell how good its detection rates are.
SectorSeven:
So they finally moved to take some AV companies out of business?
Guess this was expected when they started their attempts with the malicious software removal.
I will definitely keep an eye on that one. Right now they are "not accepting new participants"
Innuendo:
Don't let them tell you what you can and cannot do.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Microsoft-Security-Essentials.shtml
You can download the file from Softpedia and it will auto-update to the latest version.
SectorSeven:
Heh :)
Thanks, downloading.
Stoic Joker:
I've been playing with MSE for a month or so & am quite happy with it ... Which considering my blanket hatred for most things AV (Magic Bullet Baby-sitters) says quite a bit.
It's light on resources to the point of being unnoticable with the exception of the startup scan in the last build. But the lagg was over before it had time to really annoy me (statistically these days thats under 4 seconds - I'm trying to quit smoking).
Definitions come via Windows update which is nice (kinda), but adds a step to my morning routine as I don't run WU on automatic.
It does have a habit of FP'ing on keygenerators, but regulating morality seems to be an Industry Standard (for AV) these days so I won't (can't) hold that against it.
How well it works - It works as well as anything else, everybody has slow/off days and misses something from time to time & AV software is no different. The main question (for me) is how (insanely) huge is the resource footprint. I did do some bad browsing habits testing & it caught everything that I normally would never have clicked on. So if nothing else it's at least as good as I am... :)
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