[dba-Tech] BitDefender

Hi John

I do. We installed the free version on our XP Mode VMs when MSE support stopped. It worked quite well because it was as silent as MSE and didn't bother the user with big prompts for upgrading to the paid version. It reported a false positive from time to time but that was it.

Recently, however, I noticed that CPU usage was quite high on these machines resulting in a slowdown of applications, mostly old Access versions. Also, Acrobat Reader was a dog.
As these VMs are not used for browsing the Internet neither reading e-mail, thus the risk for catching malware is extremely small, we uninstalled "everything" not mandatory, and Acrobot Reader was replaced with Nitro Reader. Now they run with reasonable speed.

As a side note, the XP Mode and the old Hyper-V shows its age; I use Windows 8.1 and its newer Hyper-V, and it runs much better. Of course, you need a separate Windows XP Pro license but we have dozens of those.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af John R Bartow
Sendt: 27. januar 2015 06:33
Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Emne: [dba-Tech] BitDefender
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Hi List,

Does anyone have firsthand, recent experience with Bit Defender Security?
If so I'd appreciate a run down.

TIA,
John B