Battle BitDefender Free AV vs Avast Free

[MrExplorer]

Vote which one you like.
Can someone list feature of Avast Free & BDAV.

 

[tapoo]

i love to go with Avast Free, have every feature that anyone need in a basic antivirus

 

[Payback]

Edit : Sorry,removed my previous comment. I needed to post on-topic rather than talking about CIS.

My vote goes for Avast Free Antivirus.

Thank you

 

[gone]

my vote goes to avast
Avast! free basic yet can be customized.

 

[3link9]

i love to go with Avast Free, have every feature that anyone need in a basic antivirus

False,IMO. Comodo offers more features (HIPS,Firewall etc.),it have more features than paid AV solution offers (Weird ) like Eset nod32 (not sure about the Smart Security/Current version I am using),Kaspersky Anti-Virus etc.

He said a BASIC Anti-Virus, Not a full suite that can be complicated.

 

[Plexx]

i love to go with Avast Free, have every feature that anyone need in a basic antivirus

False,IMO. Comodo offers more features (HIPS,Firewall etc.),it have more features than paid AV solution offers (Weird ) like Eset nod32 (not sure about the Smart Security/Current version I am using),Kaspersky Anti-Virus etc.

He said a BASIC Anti-Virus, Not a full suite that can be complicated.

Not to mention Payback is going fully off topic.



Now on topic: Aint BD free AV an on demand scanner only (the one that was in Romanian only before)? if so, it cannot be compared to avast! free since it lacks nearly all tools for even a basic AV.

 

[ad18]

I tried Bitdefender Free AV but it took way too much RAM. It took about 120 MB of RAM. Avast uses about 9 MB. I would stick with Avast Free AV.

 

[tapoo]

@Payback.....
here question is between Avast Free and Bitdefender Free.....

 

[Deleted member 178]

Avast own BDAV Free 1 million times in everything.

 

[NathanF1]

Now on topic: Aint BD free AV an on demand scanner only (the one that was in Romanian only before)? if so, it cannot be compared to avast! free since it lacks nearly all tools for even a basic AV.

I'd say this is about the Bitdefender AntiVirus Free Edition discussed at length here

BDAV Free Edition Product Page


Edit: rephrased post to avoid confusion.

 

[Deleted member 178]

yes BD doesn't offer any other AV for free

 

[Plexx]

I'd say this is about the Bitdefender AntiVirus Free Edition discussed at length here

BDAV Free Edition Product Page

Somehow I must have gotten mixed up with this:

BitDefender 60 Second Virus Scanner.

My apologies to everyone.


Well, in that case, avast hands down for all features offered and decent protection (not the best, not the worst)

 

[Littlebits]

BitDefender Free Antivirus is very buggy, I took it for a test run and was very unimpressed by it. There is a major bug in the scanner which automatically deletes all detected files without any warnings (including false positives). Most other AV's put detected files in their quarantine by default, with BitDefender Free Antivirus there are no options to change its behavior.

I lost several good programs and files which were falsely detected and deleted without any warnings. I contacted support online chat and they didn't offer to help me because I didn't have a paid license. Their support forum is useless.

Other issues include uses more resources then Avast, slows down web browsing, has a lot more false positives compared to Avast and slows down opening Windows Explorer, applications (even media files).

Because it is no secret that Avast Free is much better and gives free users good support in their forums.

Enjoy!!

 

[Syntax]

For now, I will go with Avast. It's light and less buggy than BDAV free. but since BDAV free took a lot of customer feedbacks especially from Wilders then I can hope that the next new version will be light as a feather and less buggy.

I can't use BDAV free because of it's quarantine logic.

 

[Malware Man]

I'm going with avast!

Avast!:
I think avast! offers more features then any other free antivirus software out there. It is very light. I hate the ads on it now, but hey every company wants to now make money. I'm looking forward to the new version 8. I don't like how you have to register every year because if you install it on your grandparent's PC they won't remember to register it and they could become infected.

Bitdefender: It's nice to see another company making a free antivirus. It is a stripped done version of the paid products. They claim that it is light and that is true. It's web blocker is VERY strong. I don't like how there isn't any update button nor advanced options

 

[sa112]

:idea:
I tryed Bitdefender and Avast and i can say those two av's are using a low amount of resurces.Bit at the begining uses a lot, but uninstall any other av before install and let bit run on your pc a litle bit-2;3days until he gets used and you will see how smooth is it.
Bitdefender free has the same features as bitdefender av plus:antivirus and antispywere;antiphising;automatic scan;antirootkit.
All of them using bitdefender 2012 suites antimalwere signiatures.
I vote for Bitdefender, even avast is not far away but i m not sure about avast antiphising.

 

[Seany007]

I would go for Avast because I won't allow any AV to work in the auto-mode on my PC. Why? Risk of FP. With Avast you can change it. With Bitdefender free you can't shame.

 

[GA4E1]

Bitdefender is considered one of the best antivirus company with very good detection. I never try Bitdefender Free but have used avast before and is very good. For now I will say avast free!

 

[Manzai]

Hello,

Bitdefender

 

[Paul.R]

Hi!

I vot for Bitdefender, because Avast 8 is full of bugs and Bitdefender FREE have a great web protection, it's light on system resources, very good detection.

Have a nice day!