BitDefender 2014

[Tuanie]

Anyone using this? how reliable is it? Just install windows and in need of AV program. 
Any other AV out there that you would recommend ?

[Theo]

before people saying common sense blablabla good luck stopping an infected USB drive

Bitdefender is good but i prefer kaspersky internet security, they both saved my ass a few times but i do double check with malwarebytes just to be sure

[Nineshadow]

I use it and it's great.

I'm Romanian,so ofc this was my choice.

[CyberneticTitan]

I just use the trail version of ESET NOD32.

 

There are tons of trial accounts on the interwebs so I'm basically getting a free product.

 

I wouldn't go with Bitdefender personally.

[Altecice]

I use it at the moment. its the best one out there

[Akolyte]

I wouldn't pay for an antivirus, if you wanted the extra firewall protection I guess you could.  Bitdefender offers a free antivirus that has all the virus shields of the paid version, but no behaviour blocker and its got no real settings.  Its also much lighter on the system than the paid versions.  You can use something like Sandboxie or Comodo Firewall as a firewall and sandbox.  Just my opinion. 

[Tuanie]

I wouldn't pay for an antivirus, if you wanted the extra firewall protection I guess you could.  Bitdefender offers a free antivirus that has all the virus shields of the paid version, but no behaviour blocker and its got no real settings.  Its also much lighter on the system than the paid versions.  You can use something like Sandboxie or Comodo Firewall as a firewall and sandbox.  Just my opinion. 

 

i'll try the free version since is lighter. hope it goes well! 

any other protection I should get for my new PC? 

[Akolyte]

i'll try the free version since is lighter. hope it goes well! 

any other protection I should get for my new PC? 

I would advise AVG over all other antivirus software, just because its got amazing technologies built into the Identity protection such as an emulator, behaviour blocker and Host Intrusion Prevention System.  But I would advise getting the free version of Malwarebytes on your PC as a second opinion which will allow you to scan in your own time, as having two real time protection running at the same time can cause issues.  Good luck mate

[Hawx]

I would advise AVG over all other antivirus software, just because its got amazing technologies built into the Identity protection such as an emulator, behaviour blocker and Host Intrusion Prevention System.  But I would advise getting the free version of Malwarebytes on your PC as a second opinion which will allow you to scan in your own time, as having two real time protection running at the same time can cause issues.  Good luck mate

HAHAHAHAHA.

AVG is absolute rubbish by todays standards.

Kaspersky Internet Security and Bitdefender Internet Security are currently the two best on the market (KIS almost consistently takes top spots on every biyearly/yearly test)

KIS is at the top of both AV-TEST and AV-Comparatives, with Bitdefender equal or not far behind:

 

(Yeah, see your AVG down there)

[ultimatemythbuster]

HAHAHAHAHA.

AVG is absolute rubbish by todays standards.

Kaspersky Internet Security and Bitdefender Internet Security are currently the two best on the market (KIS almost consistently takes top spots on every biyearly/yearly test)

KIS is at the top of both AV-TEST and AV-Comparatives, with Bitdefender equal or not far behind:

 

(Yeah, see your AVG down there)

Sources??

[Hawx]

Sources??

http://www.av-test.org/en/news/news-single-view/artikel/25-internet-security-suites-are-put-to-the-test-using-windows-81/

http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/avc_sum_201312_en.pdf

[ultimatemythbuster]

http://www.av-test.org/en/news/news-single-view/artikel/25-internet-security-suites-are-put-to-the-test-using-windows-81/

http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/avc_sum_201312_en.pdf

I may have to change my AV/malware protection after I get a chance to read that.

[Tuanie]

i'll stick with bitD then  

[Hawx]

i'll stick with bitD then

Just a note that these tests are for the paid version. The free versions aren't all that useful in the long term.

[Jeffee]

I use bitdefender and happy but the one downside it has is you cant install bluestacks to play android games on PC. If you do get it installed removing the checks it then will just not run.