Bitdefender 2020 Released

[blackice]

One thing I noticed about ESET and Bitdefender is that, ESET either requires a scan or to run an application at least once after the installation of ESET to make things fast. But BD on my machine is fast from get go. Doesn't require any scan or launching once to make things open faster.

I noticed this behavior as well. Could it be those signatures in that fast RAM that everybody complains about!?

 

[fabiobr]

One thing I noticed about ESET and Bitdefender is that, ESET either requires a scan or to run an application at least once after the installation of ESET to make things fast. But BD on my machine is fast from get go. Doesn't require any scan or launching once to make things open faster.

It doesn't require, but Bitdefender says it's better running for caching, overall system performance and reduce next scan times. At least on their Reddit.

 

[SeriousHoax]

I noticed this behavior as well. Could it be those signatures in that fast RAM that everybody complains about!?

It doesn't require, but Bitdefender says it's better running for caching, overall system performance and reduce next scan times. At least on their Reddit.

Whatever it is, whether the ram or some other technology, Bitdefender definitely doesn't slow down system performance. Encrypted web scan slow down some page loading slightly but it skips most trusted sites by default so that's good. I'm eager to check out the 2021 version when it comes out.

 

[blackice]

Whatever it is, whether the ram or some other technology, Bitdefender definitely doesn't slow down system performance. Encrypted web scan slow down some page loading slightly but it skips most trusted sites by default so that's good. I'm eager to check out the 2021 version when it comes out.

Unfortunately last I heard the beta was delayed by Covid...but hopefully no too long.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Unfortunately last I heard the beta was delayed by Covid...but hopefully no too long.

Ah this covid! Put everything on hold.

 

[fabiobr]

I noticed that after an update Bitdefender starts a process called "Bitdefender test engine init", maybe is that test we talk here at MT to check if the update files are ok and not have been hijacked.

 

[Nightwalker]

Thank God that someone from Bitdefender noticed how bad the auto-pilot notifications are and promissed a fix:

 

[SeriousHoax]

Thank God that someone from Bitdefender noticed how bad the auto-pilot notifications are and promissed a fix:

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Btw, wasn't Bitdefender's Auto-pilot supposed to be notification free? Back when they had the dark UI, auto-pilot was off by default if I remember correctly and when enabled, it would never show any notification, not even detection of threats so that the user can carry on using the PC without any interruptions. What happened to that?

 

[Nightwalker]

Btw, wasn't Bitdefender's Auto-pilot supposed to be notification free? Back when they had the dark UI, auto-pilot was off by default if I remember correctly and when enabled, it would never show any notification, not even detection of threats so that the user can carry on using the PC without any interruptions. What happened to that?

Until the last software update It was notification free and it worked perfectly fine in that way, but someone at the marketing team thought that was a good idea to annoy the user about "how awesome" Auto-pilot is everytime it is activated or the profile is changed.

 

[mlnevese]

Next someone in marketing will add notifications for successful boot or every time a page is considered clean...

 

[Nightwalker]

Except for the auto-pilot thing (that will be solved), Bitdefender 2020 is running flawless here, I highly recommend it for people that had issues in the past, 2020 left the "Bugdefender" meme in the past.

Bitdefender added support for TLS 1.3 around April and made the web scanner one of the fastest (and safest) for me, it is really good now and everything just works.

Edit: My mistake, TLS 1.3 isnt fully working at the moment.

 

[blackice]

Except for the auto-pilot thing (that will be solved), Bitdefender 2020 is running flawless here, I highly recommend it for people that had issues in the past, 2020 left the "Bugdefender" meme in the past.

Bitdefender added support for TLS 1.3 around April and made the web scanner one of the fastest (and safest) for me, it is really good now and everything just works.

They added TLS 1.3 support? I only see TLS 1.2 connections when HTTPS scanning is on.

 

[Paul.R]

I tested here , no TLS 1.3 , from what I know even Business version doesn't have it.

Cloudflare Browser Check

Secure DNS Transport using DoH (DNS over HTTPS) or DoT (DNS over TLS) and SNI with ECH

www.cloudflare.com

 

[blackice]

I tested here , no TLS 1.3 , from what I know even Business version doesn't have it.

Cloudflare Browser Check

Secure DNS Transport using DoH (DNS over HTTPS) or DoT (DNS over TLS) and SNI with ECH

www.cloudflare.com

That's been the result I get whenever I test at badssl or ssl checker.

 

[blackice]

Except for the auto-pilot thing (that will be solved), Bitdefender 2020 is running flawless here, I highly recommend it for people that had issues in the past, 2020 left the "Bugdefender" meme in the past.

Bitdefender added support for TLS 1.3 around April and made the web scanner one of the fastest (and safest) for me, it is really good now and everything just works.

Edit: My mistake, TLS 1.3 isnt fully working at the moment.

I think having excluded trusted certificates like ESET does helps a lot. But as far as I know ESET was the fastest to implement TLS 1.3 fully. And it works great. If BD implements TLS 1.3 I'll probably stick with it for quite a while. They are really upping their game...other than the notifications/marketing.

 

[Nightwalker]

@Paul.R @blackice You guys are right, TLS 1.3 isnt working at all with the latest version, I was almost sure that after April it got supported.

Pardon me for my mistake, I dont know why I got the TLS 1.3 support when I was testing it last month.

 

[blackice]

@Paul.R @blackice You guys are right, TLS 1.3 isnt working at all with the latest version, I was almost sure that after April it got supported.

Pardon me for my mistake, I dont know why I got the TLS 1.3 support when I was testing it last month.

No worries, maybe they were rolling it out and it had issues? Hopefully they get it going soon. I was secretly hoping I just missed an update and could get it working somehow.

 

[mlnevese]

@Nightwalker Bitdefender is quick to roll back any updates that cause problems. If you tested it and it showed support and now it doesn't then they probably detected a serious problem and rolled it back. It also means they are working on it and it may be released at any time.

 

[Chipicao]

Like I said in previous comments. Nothing is better than report bugs, annoying features, vulnerabilities or undetected malware to them. Use the proper channels to do it, I mean use Reddit if they are on Reddit, Go to Forum of BD and report, send a Ticket / Contact support.

This is the best way to have an update or fix. Complain in Blogs or Forums they don't see or don't visit, won't help nothing. That is the truth.
If you can do it, join more people with the same problem and complain in these proper channels.

And if you have suggestions about new features you want to be implemented you should give it on Reddit, Forums and Support Tickets.

I just would like to see a better feature against desinfection, like Kaspersky a Rollback should be very nice in BitDefender. I mean I would like to see improvement in these feature, even if they have. It needs to be improved a little more.

BitDefender is not buggy, is doing it great. At least their Web Protection is one of the best IMO.

 

[fabiobr]

No worries, maybe they were rolling it out and it had issues? Hopefully they get it going soon. I was secretly hoping I just missed an update and could get it working somehow.

Sorry my ignorance, but what is the difference between TLS 1.2 and 1.3?