Virii detection very low

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Oct 26 19:33:03 IST 2005


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>>What exactly is the licensing situation for Bitdefender?
>>Is it really free as in beer for all situations? Or when do you have to
>>pay for it?
>>How do Bitdefender make any profit? (assuming it's not free-as-in-speech)
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>From the BitDefender site (Linux Free - Console)
>http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-63-en--BitDefender-Linux-Edition.html
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>BitDefender Linux Edition is a freeware product, which doesn't require a
>license to be used.
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That's pretty clear. Thanks for the pointer. I will start recommending 
it in addition to ClamAV.
Apart from being free, how good is its reputation for high detection 
rate and fast updates compared to other products?

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