Battle Bitdefender Free vs Avast Free in 2025: Full Review, Pros & Cons, Which to Choose?

Which free antivirus would you choose in 2025?

  • Bitdefender Free

    Votes: 13 43.3%

  • Avast Free

    Votes: 9 30.0%

  • Other / None

    Votes: 8 26.7%
  • Total voters
    30
Sorrento said:
I have yet to have a conversation with a Bot that's of any use
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Try querying for things you aren't familiar with, the bot will return some subjects which you can investigate further. I find that bots are good at introducing things.
 
A very trivial aside regarding the comparisons, but I believe with the free version of of Avast are some of the advanced options that can be found in the geek:area. I hardly ever made any changes there when I tried it out.

Apologies if it was mentioned it in one of your posts Trident (I'm not up to talking with or mentioning it to a friggin bot), but I'm on my phones little screen :)
 
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Trident said:
Yeah... I am developing a platform for hospitality at the moment, it serves as shift management and data analytics. The entire automation and AI falls under SmartSense (branding), I may throw the Gemini API out... This is the Smart Sense that I need.
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Victor M said:
Try querying for things you aren't familiar with, the bot will return some subjects which you can investigate further. I find that bots are good at introducing things.
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On the last occasion I required specific information regarding a rather expensive streaming platform, the bot should have known about this as the platform BluOs is used by 1000's of people & many hi-fi companies with Qobuz, this was its only job it had! - I appreciate bots have their strengths but at this point at least with specific information to specific situations, the info can be found with a search - I still have reservations & are very surprised as to info people gladly give bots etc & the privacy implications & where the info ends up? It seems no guarantees are given how this often personal info with be used as has recently seen with Alexa for example, to much too quickly which I fear may bite people on their bum later?

History often repeats itself & might with so called bots?
 
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Sorrento said:
On the last occasion I required specific information regarding a rather expensive streaming platform, the bot should have known about this as it BluOs is used by 1000's of people & many companies with Qobuz, this was its only job it had! - I appreciate bots have their strengths but art this point at least with specific information to specific situations, the info can be found with a search - I still have reservations & am surprised as to info people gladly give bots etc & the privacy implications & it seems no guarantees are given how this often personal info with be used as has recently seen with Alexa for example, to much too quickly which I fear may bite people on their bum later?
History often repeats itself & might with so called bots?
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When a billing is linked to a Google Cloud project and Gemini Studio is used as part of that, Google doesn’t use the information uploaded to train machine learning models. Furthermore, it is carefully selected what exactly gets uploaded and there are pre-scrubbing scripts that also minimise the upload of personal information.

When free tiers are used with no billing, the payment is the data.
 
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Amazon said info as regards Alexa would not be used, if something can be exploited it will be & promises often mean nothing - I understand your point but it seems users on here are scared of info AV companies hold yet give out all very personal info gladly without prompting :eek: - If years ago it was insisted all homes have cameras there would have been huge resistance yet now we willing do this including me to usually USA companies who have been shown not to live up to promises - Ring for example? I still feel, tread carefully?
Sorry off topic I wont post again regarding this.
 
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