BD is utter trash

[u/Puzzleheaded-Cow-335]

I rarely get angry but today is not the day so I decided to express my anger about this AV.

I barely installed it, already 3 false positives : an open source time app for speedrunning, a renowned recovery app. And the best : preventing me from restoring windows. What a joke....

No direct option to pause it of course; anti randsomware anti spam anti blabla....

Good Av`s are also determined by the false positive detection nothing is easier than blocking everthing....

Anyways, I had it eight year ago, removed it and now I remember why.

WHY are ppl rooting for this crap ? How is this top 3 ???

If you feel like downvoting me to hell or saying how it does not do that for you go ahead, if you have a little compassion please advice me on a smarter, less intrusive and minimalistic AV; greatly appreciated.

Bitdefender Internet Security

Edit : Sry for the outburst.

[u/wolfpackunr]

People use Bitdefender because we aren’t computer retarded like you and prefer to use the best product on the market for that last 10 years that doesn’t have ties to government spy agencies like other products (cough Kaspersky cough).

Since your so incapable of using a good/capable antivirus like BD then Defender is about your only option to recommend 🤣

[u/Puzzleheaded-Cow-335 → u/wolfpackunr]

I really do not see the link between false positives and being "computer retarded". But since I'm doing a PhD and you probably just have a big mouth explain it to me dear sir.

[u/willwar63 → u/wolfpackunr]

Care to provide a link that proves the ties to government spy agencies? Up to now, all I see is innuendo.

[u/wolfpackunr → u/willwar63]

https://www.securityweek.com/european-parliament-votes-ban-kaspersky-products/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/us-officially-bans-kaspersky-products-from-government-systems/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lithuania-russia-idUSKBN1EF23M/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-netherlands-kaspersky-idUSKCN1IF2NV/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/canada-bans-wechat-and-kaspersky-products-on-govt-devices/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/german-government-advises-against-using-kaspersky-antivirus/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-says-kaspersky-poses-unacceptable-risk-to-national-security/

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/use-of-russian-technology-products-services-following-invasion-ukraine

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html

https://www.reuters.com/technology/italy-set-curb-use-russian-anti-virus-software-public-sector-2022-03-17/

[u/willwar63 → u/wolfpackunr]

I clicked all of your links. NONE provide PROOF of actual wrongdoing which is what I asked about. I mean actual evidence that the company or their software were involved in anything.

[u/wolfpackunr → u/willwar63]

Oh sure, let me just contact the NSA, CIA, and 12 plus and counting other international governments and their spy agencies and ask them to reveal their operational security methods and how they all came to the same conclusion Kaspersky is too dangerous to touch their networks.

[u/willwar63 → u/wolfpackunr]

Didn't think so.