New Update Bitdefender Free Antivirus is back

[blackice]

Mine has not calmed down yet, but I only installed it late last night before turning my PC off. Will see if it calms down a bit throughout the day.

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350 isn’t so bad as long as you aren’t on an old system that’s short on RAM. Hopefully it will drop a bit more for you. Who knows why it’s so variable.

 

[Trooper]

350 isn’t so bad as long as you aren’t on an old system that’s short on RAM. Hopefully it will drop a bit more for you. Who knows why it’s so variable.

It has actually shot up to about 375 since I posted this. Crazy stuff.

 

[blackice]

It has actually shot up to about 375 since I posted this. Crazy stuff.

I don't know how photon works these days, but they used to recommend waiting 2-3 days to let it watch your system and reduce resource usage. Could also depend on what you have running and if it's monitoring/scanning things those programs are doing. Personally I have plenty of RAM so I don't even bother looking at that.

 

[Trooper]

I don't know how photon works these days, but they used to recommend waiting 2-3 days to let it watch your system and reduce resource usage. Could also depend on what you have running and if it's monitoring/scanning things those programs are doing. Personally I have plenty of RAM so I don't even bother looking at that.

I will definitely keep an eye on it. I am just a little surprised to see it using this much memory. Then again, BD always felt kind of heavy to me. As long as it does not interfere with what I am doing on my PC, it should be ok. Are you on the free version or paid by chance?

 

[Snue23]

I installed it on my pc , but found it interferes with adgaurd(Few sites break when using adgaurd desktop version with bitdefender , maybe it is just a certificate issue , as both are using root certificate issue ,I tried disabling https scanning it either of them , no help . Also this issue was not present before installing bitdefender free ) however its memory consumption was light this time . Actually is the first time I experienced Bitdefender being light on ram . Also , sorry for my bad english .

 

[blackice]

I will definitely keep an eye on it. I am just a little surprised to see it using this much memory. Then again, BD always felt kind of heavy to me. As long as it does not interfere with what I am doing on my PC, it should be ok. Are you on the free version or paid by chance?

I had BD Internet Security on my laptop until 2 weeks ago. Never felt heavy. With AdGuard you’re going to disable BD’s HTTPS scanning, not sure if you can in the free version.

 

[M4RT1NE2]

I will test it one day for sure. Because it might seem interesting.

 

[Captain Holly]

One problem I have run into with BD. When I go some financial websites, I get this pop-up with a BTS upgrade offer. It is not there on all financial or credit related sites that I use but it is on my bank's site and some credit card sites. Turning off the recommendations in BD settings does not stop the pop-up. The window disappears by itself after a few seconds, but I still don't know if I like this or not. One of the good things about the old BD Free was it stayed quiet and out of the way and did not show any kind of upgrade offers except for one blurb at the bottom of the GUI that just said "click here to upgrade" or something like that.

There are still some good points here though. BD RAM usage is still very low, right now the main module is at 109.0 MB. Browsing is still very snappy. The length of time for a cold boot this morning was about 30 seconds less than it was when I used WD and BD was active and turned on as soon as my desktop loaded.

C.H.

 

[Pat MacKnife]

Turn off the recommendations and Special offers in BD settings.

 

[Faybert]

Apparently some people still haven't learned that RAM consumption is not linked if the program is heavy, but in its CPU usage, RAM memory is to be used.

As soon as I have time I'll put this BitDefender Free on the front line of the HUB.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Apparently some people still haven't learned that RAM consumption is not linked if the program is heavy, but in its CPU usage, RAM memory is to be used.

As soon as I have time I'll put this BitDefender Free on the front line of the HUB.

Thanks for testing Bitdefender Free in the HUB

For others I will link the blogpost from Emsisoft again:

Why antivirus uses so much RAM - And why that is actually a good thing!

Learn why freeing RAM doesn't necessarily speed up your computer. In reality it's often quite the opposite.

blog.emsisoft.com

 

[Captain Holly]

Turn off the recommendations and Special offers in BD settings.

I did that but it did not change anything. Pop up was still there.

C.H.

 

[Pat MacKnife]

I did that but it did not change anything. Pop up was still there.

C.H.

I just try a banking site and indeed a little popup came up, but is was gone very fast, its just a warning that you enter a banking site... to me personaly its not that bad.

 

[SeriousHoax]

I installed it on my pc , but found it interferes with adgaurd(Few sites break when using adgaurd desktop version with bitdefender , maybe it is just a certificate issue , as both are using root certificate issue ,I tried disabling https scanning it either of them , no help . Also this issue was not present before installing bitdefender free ) however its memory consumption was light this time . Actually is the first time I experienced Bitdefender being light on ram . Also , sorry for my bad english .

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When using an AV with HTTPS scanning, it's recommended to disable the WFP driver option in the Network section of Adguard.
To my knowledge, Bitdefender and ESET at least these two AVs which does HTTPS scanning uses Windows Filtering Platform aka WFP to filter HTTPS traffic. So, when both Bitdefender and Adguard uses the same filter, it creates issues. So disable that from Adguard. After that, Adguard will automatically install a network adapter mini-port filter driver to filter HTTPS traffic. It'll ask for a system restart, and after that things should be normal.

 

[Nightwalker]

I installed it on my pc , but found it interferes with adgaurd(Few sites break when using adgaurd desktop version with bitdefender , maybe it is just a certificate issue , as both are using root certificate issue ,I tried disabling https scanning it either of them , no help . Also this issue was not present before installing bitdefender free ) however its memory consumption was light this time . Actually is the first time I experienced Bitdefender being light on ram . Also , sorry for my bad english .

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Are you using Firefox? If so try to disable DNS over HTTPS in Firefox network settings, it solved the problem for me.

 

[Snue23]

Are you using Firefox? If so try to disable DNS over HTTPS in Firefox network settings, it solved the problem for me.

It helps for firefox , but I enabled dns over https in edge too , doesn't works there . However I tried @SeriousHoax fix for disabling WFP in adguard . Seems working , Thanks for the fixes

 

[Moonhorse]

Search advisor is not working for me with firefox, with edge it does work though. Phishing/malware/pup filters block pages correctly though (amtso test) so im fine with that

 

[Trooper]

Memory use has risen throughout the day vs, getting lower. The app does not seem as light to me as others I have tested. Not sure if this will be a winner for my machine anyway.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Memory use has risen throughout the day vs, getting lower. The app does not seem as light to me as others I have tested. Not sure if this will be a winner for my machine anyway.

What's your system config?

 

[Local Host]

always thought bd was heavy, but I tried it yesterday, it's in fact very light consumes about 200 mb of ram and 0 cpu usage

If you want comparison, Kaspersky consumes 40MB with 0 CPU usage.

400 to 800 mb physical memory usage by bitdefender (or any other program for that matter) is no big deal except for older systems with 12 gb or less physical memory, in todays environment anythig less than 16 gb physical memory is obsolete, like this is an ad nauseum discuss about bitdefender products, if you know your system has limited physical memory why would you even try to use bitdefender ?

emsisoft gets the same criticisms people complain about its memory usage

the best thing bitdefender and others can do are hide memory usage as other avs do

8GB of RAM is still a standard today, 16GB is only for gaming PCs.