BitDefender has been making false advertising, fake reviews and probably even paying off AV testing sites to get high scores for many years all starting off with TopTenReviews. All this work it still not helping them, if you visit third-party download sites you will find that BitDefender is one of the lowest downloaded security products. All paid products are at the bottom of the lists and most of the free security products are at the top of the most downloaded list.
Apparently BitDefender must be having problems making sales since all of the giveaways and still most users don't want it.
If you can't give it away for free then how do you suppose to sell it?
BitDefender is not the only security vendor to do this either, most paid vendors are starting to suffer sale losses because of the popularity of free security products and Windows 8 on default security features. Most advanced users already know if they don't download suspicious files and utilize UAC that they will have nothing to worry about. The novice users will always have infections until they learn no matter what security software they use because they will ignore UAC and download anything. Never believe security software vendors, testing sites or reviews their total goal to to sell a product not to be honest.
Thanks.