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Posted by Mike Gasson on February 21, 2006, 3:57 am
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>I normally run Symantec Antivirus 10 without e-mail protection on my
>home computer -- 2.0 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 with 1 GB RAM. Typically
>there are only three applications running, IE, OE, newsreader and
>several background processes. Sometimes there are a few more
>applications but there has never been any system degradation, mostly
>because of the large amount of RAM.
>
>I downloaded and installed Bitdefender Standard 8 since it gets such
>great reviews in this group. I was able to get a one year free license
>so this was the perfect opportunity. After disabling Symantec services
>and rebooting, I installed Bitdefender. Its installation time was
>rather lengthy, but eventually everything was fine. It never asked to
>update the definition files so I did that manually. Then I disabled
>e-mail scanning and played around with the options a bit.
>
>I ran my first manual scan of just the C: drive and it took 2 hours to
>complete. It's a good thing I didn't let it do the other drives. Over
>the next couple of days the Sygate firewall asked numerous times for
>permission to allow Bitdefender access to various sites. Each time I
>allowed it and told it not to ask anymore. This behavior was endless
>and become very annoying. I also noticed system degradation occurring
>rather severely; it would take nearly 20 seconds for an application to
>open compared to the normal 5 seconds. What was the worst was the
>length of time my newsreader took to download headers, expand the
>server tree, or download message bodies.
>
>After two days of this mess I uninstalled the program and started
>Symantec right back up again. The computer is back to normal
>immediately afterwards and there is no slowdown whatsoever. I was very
>dissapointed with Bitdefender and wanted to make it my default realtime
>scanner. I did notice it had some sort of service that watched for
>registry changes in the Startup section and that was somewhat
>impressive. However the drag it put on my computer was intolerable and
>I can't justify its total performance over Symantec Antivirus version
>10 or any other anti-virus product I've ever used for that matter.
Any reason for running Sygate at the same time? Is your Bit Defender A/V
only or is it the Internet Security version with firewall etc?
--
Mike Gasson
(from the Isle of Purbeck)
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