Kathie's posted a review of her experiences with BitDefender 10 (this isn't a single PC review - it's based on her experience running BitDefender 10 on to separate PCs):

My first impressions were very positive. I liked the small memory footprint, meaning that the program's processes don't take up too much of my RAM.  I also liked that the dialog boxes seemed to be less worrisome than Zone Alarm or Norton Antivirus, and it seems to update itself without troubling me or asking for me to do anything.  Nice.

But, and this is a BIG but, I started to notice a lot of problems with my systems.  Having bought a license for 2 PCs I installed it onto two systems running Windows XP.  Little things started to take forever for no apparent reason. 

I'm pretty disappointed with BitDefender's tech support over this issue - at best it consisted of turning off features of the program and uninstalling applications - not really the kind of fix that I was looking for.  Also, their tech support is pretty unresponsive with days going by between sending in information and getting a response.  Not good.

Kathie concludes with this:

So my conclusions.  While Bitdefender 9 is good and I've used it for over a year, Bitdefender 10 seems to me to have some serious problems which the company just don't want to address. Steer clear!  Or at very least make sure you try out their free trial version before parting with any cash.

I agree.  I think that it's a very good idea to take a trial version for a spin before you spend money on a BitDefender product - I've seen too many problems with this version to be able to recommend it.

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