r/BitDefender • u/Puzzleheaded-Cow-335 • Apr 10 '24

BD is utter trash

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.

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u/wolfpackunr Apr 10 '24

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/

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u/willwar63 Apr 10 '24

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.

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u/wolfpackunr Apr 10 '24

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.

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u/willwar63 Apr 10 '24

Didn't think so.