Old free Bitdefender and hit rate

Greg Matthews gmatt at nerc.ac.uk
Mon Apr 7 14:01:39 IST 2008


Scott Silva wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, has anyone that is still running the old free 
> version of bitdefender (BDC/Linux-Console v7.1 (build 2559))still been 
> getting virus hits with it?

it still hits a handful for us - comparable with the hit rate for Sophos 
and both Sophos and Bitdefender often hit different positives. As 
someone else said - it is a resource hog...

> 
> I haven't seen anything hit with it for 6 months or so, even though it 
> still updates and shows current.
> 


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