Bitdefender Antivirus Free Final released for Windows

[Lord Ami]

The biggest concern for me is updating. I noticed lots of disk activity during update. Seemed like it scanned the whole database to determine what to update. And it did this every single time?!

I have ssd and it did not cause slowdown but still...

 

[Lord Ami]

So I had database 29. December 2016

Started VM and after some minutes, BD began updating.
At first, the disk usage was quite high for ~20 seconds (Samsung 850 Evo, 250GB)


Then it started downloading and remained ~1MB/sec write/read


Finally, while installing? it juped back to 10's of MB/s (for around 15 seconds again)


Conclusion: They surely should improve it in some way. CPU usage during all that time was around 50% too (2 core). I wonder what a normal HDD would do in such case...
Of course this is huge database update (12+ days), but I see it more or less with every update.

 

[Pat MacKnife]

Today auto update to version 1.0.5.14

 

[Pat MacKnife]

Today BD free auto update to version 1.0.6.9

 

[Piteko21]

New - Bitdefender free auto-update to version 1.0.6.12

 

[blueblackwow65]

Many updates the past few days

 

[Piteko21]

Many updates the past few days

yeahp, they are very commitment to the free product

 

[anonymous1xx1]

New - Bitdefender free auto-update to version 1.0.6.12


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sorry may i ask when this version 1.0.6.12 released ? today or few days ago?

 

[Piteko21]

sorry may i ask when this version 1.0.6.12 released ? today or few days ago?

my bitdefender auto update today

 

[Pat MacKnife]

Any visible changes ?

 

[anonymous1xx1]

my bitdefender auto update today

ok thank you

 

[Piteko21]

Any visible changes ?

I think not, remains the same GUI, the same in resources, RAM usage...
they are polishing the product and fix some bugs I supose

 

[Kuttz]

Truly best in class protection one can get for free that too absolutely ads free!

 

[blueblackwow65]

How is the ram usage?

 

[brod56]

How is the ram usage?

Very low as you can see.

 

[blueblackwow65]

Thks i find it high, but my pc is a bit old

 

[brod56]

Thks i find it high, but my pc is a bit old

I think it is below average, probably you wont find as strong protection using lower system recourses.

 

[blueblackwow65]

Wonder how this does compared to Avast free

 

[brod56]

Wonder how this does compared to Avast free

I dont remember exact RAM usage, but I noticed my system was a bit slower when I had Avast Free installed some time ago.
I had Behaviour Shield activated though, which Bitdefender doesnt have.

 

[Janl1992l]

I had Behaviour Shield activated though, which Bitdefender doesnt have.

Bitdefender has some sort of behavourshield called ActiveVirusControl (AVC)