Sound as though your in the % of Murphy's Law. "If you have a 100 PC's all the same OS's with the same Security Suite installed on them, Murphy's Law would have it that on some % of them what can go wrong, will go wrong, and will apply to any other combination thereof." Interpreted for this topic, it would read something like this. In reply to your last post here - Have you heard of "Murphy's Law" ? Nope, I was only referring to detection rates the stability in that department, what I meant to say is that BD is not like some who appear to be getting 99% on one test and 90% on the other Sorry if I offend anyone, I'm just getting pretty tired of this BitDefender circus. What is it worth having an effective antivirus and firewall installed if you stops trusting it? It's supposed to run silently in the background only with the occational alert when a new program tries to go online or when a reboot is needed. If you don't believe me, try read the forums. I find I have plenty to do allready manually deleting the outdated folders with definition files, now I also have to try twice to start my computer as BDIS 2009 hangs the first time, and then there're the different errors it throws like tmp files it can't read, dll files that doesn't work and services that don't start or suddenly stops responding. Can you repeat that? My personal experience is BDIS2009 is getting more and more unstable. “If you look long enough, you will find any publisher on the top of one of the review lists or the Top 10 list! - Think about it." I could raise more matters regarding these type of test, however close with waht I said on another post, The inclutions in a Security suite must be the same in every program that is tested to be of comparative value! If they have they should be grouped in accord with their inclusions. Each group should be tested on its own and not combined when they have differing sub components. We need a test result of the performance of the top 100 in Security Suits like the BDIS 2009 and differentiated from single Application Anti-Virus ONLY types, and others. I agree with you HG_PCDania that the sample of Programs is too small to be of significant value. The difference you noticed with removed is related to the Definitions loaded at the time of the test, which they did not report and could have been tested with different sets of definitions. A few years back I did see them on the top of the list. It ain't going to happen ! However others have, according tho these tests, gotten a higher detection rate result than BD did, and "Yes" BD could aim a little higher. The 100% protection is a pipe dream I think, but is on my wish list and sent it to both Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. However this is not good when the documentation is poorly set out and on some foreign paper size needing 20 pages to be printed which could have been simplified by taking out the commercials (Publishers propaganda) formating it correctly and reducing it to 6 A4 pages. Obviously, having a hard copy (which we now need to print) is better. On the Download installation files you don't even get a text file with instructions which should have been included. Try reading the CD on your PC screen while your setting the options and going backward and forwards reading and setting, reading and setting, etc. Initially they are to blame for users not understanding the functions and the options parameters due to the poor or lack of explanatory documentation that they supply, saying that its on the Retail Pack CD, or some other minuscule printed A6 sized piece of paper. I have seen (needing to repair and or restore) to many of the crashes these automations can cause, to use them when they think the users are ****** and assume to take over the performance of these and other functions without correctly setting an interval to ensure that they do not conflict and perform these tasks at the same time. This was important so that Scans could be set to particular time rather than some others which perform these automatically when the system is idle or when they think it is necessary and also perform other automated tasks like disk de-fragmentation at the same time, which is not a good idea at all ! The other aspects that are of importance to me, are the User Options that the Security Suite allows the user to be in control of ! The stability (in general terms) and the performance with regard to protecting my LAN System and the PC Workstations on it, is of primary concern to me.
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