Question for Bitdefender Users

Kevin Spicer kevins at BMRB.CO.UK
Thu Sep 18 21:05:42 IST 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 21:00, Steffan Henke wrote:

>You should be able to find several emails about bitdefender in the
>archives.
>A while ago, I downloaded a trial version and was shocked it would not
>even detect the Eicar string, that's why I am a bit surprised to hear
>the
>latest results, eg. that it did detect several virii other scanners did
>not detect.
>Maybe they have improved the product or at least the signatures...

Of course eicar is not a virus, so its probably unfair to judge any
virus scanner on the basis of whether it detects eicar.  Maybe the
developers had their own test signature - it is essentially just one
long random number.




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