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Recently noticed that uninstalling this software left behind a sizeable
grouping of "Common Files" of around 12Mb, which must be removed
manually. They are located in a subdirectory named "Softwin".
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Evaluated bitdefender 8 free as a possible candidate for addition to the
malware detection arsenal and this is what I found.
Watch out for the installation process, as you will see constant alerts
coming from your firewall and any other system intrusion detection items
that you run, not to mention the phoning home firestorm that follows.
The interface is sparse and options are few, when they finally work,
as it was necessary to unselect those not wanted twice, before they were
finally saved.
Updates do not register as being done, so you can instantly update again
and it appears as if the update was not previously done.
So, brought out the old 199x test trojan and a couple of other heuristic
type files that it should have found and it called them *OK*. All are
flagged by my other detectors.
You have to use the context menu to scan, there is no other way, which is
real nice when you have numerous drives and partitions.
It installs itself under "Softwin" and is around 13Mb, with 132 files.
Scans somewhat slowly, but has a useful red progress bar (best feature).
I actually hoped for this software to be reasonably usable.
Anyway, in short, I am dumping bitdefender 8 free, without delay!
Just hope it doesn't leave malware behind.
grouping of "Common Files" of around 12Mb, which must be removed
manually. They are located in a subdirectory named "Softwin".
=
Evaluated bitdefender 8 free as a possible candidate for addition to the
malware detection arsenal and this is what I found.
Watch out for the installation process, as you will see constant alerts
coming from your firewall and any other system intrusion detection items
that you run, not to mention the phoning home firestorm that follows.
The interface is sparse and options are few, when they finally work,
as it was necessary to unselect those not wanted twice, before they were
finally saved.
Updates do not register as being done, so you can instantly update again
and it appears as if the update was not previously done.
So, brought out the old 199x test trojan and a couple of other heuristic
type files that it should have found and it called them *OK*. All are
flagged by my other detectors.
You have to use the context menu to scan, there is no other way, which is
real nice when you have numerous drives and partitions.
It installs itself under "Softwin" and is around 13Mb, with 132 files.
Scans somewhat slowly, but has a useful red progress bar (best feature).
I actually hoped for this software to be reasonably usable.
Anyway, in short, I am dumping bitdefender 8 free, without delay!
Just hope it doesn't leave malware behind.