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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Holly" data-source="post: 979806" data-attributes="member: 90494"><p>I had to test this new BD. I installed it on my old Lenovo laptop, it is about 5 years old and has 6gb RAM and a 1TB hard drive. BD Installation was very easy, I did sign into the same BD account I had a few years ago, first scan took only a few minutes, the widget is active and hanging out on my home screen and all seems well with BD. It picked up the eicar test file right away in Chrome, in Edge Smartscreen blocked Eicar first then BD also blocked it not even a second later. BD blocked the AMTSO phishing test page first on both Chrome and Edge. BD marked my search results in Bing but not in Google. I had to add the Trafficlight extension to get search results in Google for both browsers.</p><p></p><p>BD used 460 mb RAM when I first installed it, that was about 2 hours ago, it is now down to 197 mb for the main module. If I leave it alone it should learn my computer and drop further as time goes on. BD Free seems to be pretty easy to use, not very complicated and will likely get the job done. Web browsing is noticeably faster and smoother with BD than it was with MS Defender too. So far there have been no nagging upgrade offers either but I turned those off in Settings. So far so good. I may put BD on my main every day use laptop a little later today. It is very good to have the AV features and protection I need without the bloat and nags and useless cleaners/scans that I don't need.</p><p></p><p>C.H.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]265098[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Captain Holly, post: 979806, member: 90494"] I had to test this new BD. I installed it on my old Lenovo laptop, it is about 5 years old and has 6gb RAM and a 1TB hard drive. BD Installation was very easy, I did sign into the same BD account I had a few years ago, first scan took only a few minutes, the widget is active and hanging out on my home screen and all seems well with BD. It picked up the eicar test file right away in Chrome, in Edge Smartscreen blocked Eicar first then BD also blocked it not even a second later. BD blocked the AMTSO phishing test page first on both Chrome and Edge. BD marked my search results in Bing but not in Google. I had to add the Trafficlight extension to get search results in Google for both browsers. BD used 460 mb RAM when I first installed it, that was about 2 hours ago, it is now down to 197 mb for the main module. If I leave it alone it should learn my computer and drop further as time goes on. BD Free seems to be pretty easy to use, not very complicated and will likely get the job done. Web browsing is noticeably faster and smoother with BD than it was with MS Defender too. So far there have been no nagging upgrade offers either but I turned those off in Settings. So far so good. I may put BD on my main every day use laptop a little later today. It is very good to have the AV features and protection I need without the bloat and nags and useless cleaners/scans that I don't need. C.H. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1647641625453.png"]265098[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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