Is bitdefender internet security good?

[Yongtjunkit]

Hi  I was wondering if bitdefender internet security good 

[Guest]

The bitdefender engine consistently scores high in detection tests. However, I always recommend looking skeptically at any piece of software that claims to make you "safer" while also exposing the system to potentially exploitable privileged code.

 

Consider instead, Windows Defender, Windows Firewall, NoScript, uBlock Origin/uMatrix, and responsible computer use.

[Yongtjunkit]

13 minutes ago, SSL said:

The bitdefender engine consistently scores high in detection tests. However, I always recommend looking skeptically at any piece of software that claims to make you "safer" while also exposing the system to potentially exploitable privileged code.

 

Consider instead, Windows Defender, Windows Firewall, NoScript, uBlock Origin/uMatrix, and responsible computer use.

Do you have any idea about good anti-virus other than avg as avg bricked my pc at one point of time and I had to Reinstall windows as the recovery partition doesn't work(corrupted) and system restore on a usb failed to restore my pc 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Yongtjunkit said:

Do you have any idea about good anti-virus other than avg as avg bricked my pc at one point of time and I had to Reinstall windows as the recovery partition doesn't work(corrupted) and system restore on a usb failed to restore my pc 

 

Avast, Norton, or Kaspersky would be my picks if you are bent on running a 3rd party virus scanner. Note that Avast recently acquired AVG. For what it's worth, even if AVG was responsible for bricking your system, that could probably happen with any AV.

 

You should figure out your system backup situation separately; the best way would be to create a complete image of the system on an external drive, and keep as much data as you can on a secondary drive in the system, or even in the cloud.

[Yongtjunkit]

6 minutes ago, SSL said:

 

Avast, Norton, or Kaspersky would be my picks if you are bent on running a 3rd party virus scanner. Note that Avast recently acquired AVG. For what it's worth, even if AVG was responsible for bricking your system, that could probably happen with any AV.

 

You should figure out your system backup situation separately; the best way would be to create a complete image of the system on an external drive, and keep as much data as you can on a secondary drive in the system, or even in the cloud.

Currently using kapesky trial doesn't seems to cause any issues so far but on the 2014 edition it causes my pc to bsod and have no space in the os(c:) drive, but for the past 60 days I have no problem so far with it as if it was fixed