Sunday, November 27, 2011

Bit Defender Free Edition (version 2009) review

I downloaded this product Nov 2011, but apparently the latest version of the scanner was released in 2009. The virus signatures, however, are up to date. I wanted it as an on-demand anti-virus scanner, rather than a all-the-time background resource eating scanner. It advertises right-click to scan, which is exactly what I want, but at least out of the box it's not quite as resource friendly as I hoped, as it installs 2 services and one background process, which together consume about 60MB of RAM.

Then when I tried to run a 'deep scan' it crashes midway through. So I reboot and try to uninstall it, and it fails massivly: registry keys left all over the place, and none of it's files deleted. What a piece of junk.

AVOID!

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