Bitdefender Antivirus 2009 2 Yr 3Pc

Manage the security of your home network from a single location. BitDefender software from other computers in the network can be remotely configured, while tasks such as scans, backups, tune-ups, and updates can be run on-demand or scheduled to run during off-hours. BitDefender Antivirus 2009 provides advanced proactive protection against viruses, spyware, phishing attacks and identity theft, without slowing down your PC. Confidently download, share and open files from friends, family, co-workers and even total strangers. Proactively protects against new virus outbreaks using advanced heuristics Protect your identity - shop, bank, listen, watch privately and securely Blocks attempted identity theft (phishing) Prevents personal information from leaking via e-mail, web or instant messaging Guard your conversations with top-of-the line encryption Get fine-tuned performance from your computer System Requirements - Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (32/64 bit) or higher, Windows Vista (32/64 bit) and Windows Vista SP1, and Windows Home Server

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars virus software
This is the 1st time I have ever used this product. I bought it because of the reviews in consumer report. It is working well for me I have had it in my computer for 1 month now.

4 Stars Minor problems with AV 2009; Uneven support experiences
I used BitDefender (BD) to replace Norton Antivirus (NAV) because NAV was consuming too much resource and NAV support wasn’t very responsive. I started out with BitDefender Antivirus 2008 on 2 computers: One was running Windows 2000 and the second Vista Ultimate. I bought the 2 year license for 3 computers.

Initial installation on both computers went smoothly. I was happy to find that BD did indeed use less of both computers’ memory and CPU. It’s easy to scan a file on demand because BD added a menu item to the menu that comes up when you right click on a file. Just right click and select “Scan with BitDefender”.

After a few months use, the BD installation on the Vista computer quit working. BD support’s solution was, as is mentioned in several of the other reviews, “uninstall and re-install” so that’s what I did and it fixed the problem.

BD 2009 came out several months after I initially installed BD 2008. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I could upgrade the Vista machine AT NO ADDITIONAL COST! (BD 2009 wasn’t supported on Win 2k so I couldn’t upgrade that machine.)

However, after upgrading, none of the stock trading software I use was able to access real time stock quotes. I started a chat with BD support and they quickly helped me uncheck a couple of default options to fix the problem.

After fixing the real time stock quote problem, the software ran for about 4 months without incident. Then I started using Microsoft Media Player (MMP) to listen to the BBC. Apparently, MMP uses a cookie to keep track of the stations. When the BD system scan ran, it considered these cookies to be dangerous and deleted them. This forces me to re-add the BBC so I tried to add the cookie files to the BD “Exclusion” list. But I wasn’t able to do so because nothing happened when I clicked the “Add” button on the BD Exclusion Wizard after typing in the full path to the cookie files. I reported this problem to BD support and they fixed the problem shortly thereafter. However, after about 2 weeks, a new maintenance release of BD came out and the fix disappeared. Once again, the cookie files are being deleted and I can’t update the exclusion list.

I looked on the BD web site forums and it’s easy to find lots of people with serious problems (I’ve had none) who are not getting any response from BD tech support. This leaves me with the feeling that, as long as the product continues to run, I’ll be ok but if I ever encounter a serious problem I’ll be out of luck. If that happens, I guess I’ll try another AV product.

2 Stars Too many glitches for established product
I purchased Bitdefender AV 2009 for 2yr/3 PC thinking I was doing a good thing. I’m glad my husband’s laptop still has Norton or I wouldn’t be writing this. A few of the problems are as follows: Delayed keystrokes while typing email, incorrect phishing alerts while visiting websites, extremely long deep scans (think 6-8 hours), delayed access to the internet, constant requests to reboot because product is not working, etc. If I could get my money back, I would. After all the great reviews (from my peers here at Amazon as well as CNET), I thought I was making a great choice. I’m wrong. The reason for two stars and not one? The support staff does respond, most of the time. They are responsive, just not always helpful.

3 Stars OK But Really Stupid Software
I have had Bit Defender Anti-Virus for three years. When I upgraded to version 10, the real time shield wouldn’t always load so I would be on the Internet unprotected until I realized the icon wasn’t in the system tray. Bit Defender support didn’t have a fix for that. Earlier this year, I got a really annoying malware that Bit Defender not only did not detect but couldn’t clear up. It slowed down my computer and kept making an irritating ticking noise. After two days of silence from the BD support team, I found a free anti-malware program on the Web that cleared it up in five minutes. I renewed it again for 2009 because I was too busy to evaluate other virus programs and felt I needed something. Other than the two previous mentioned problems, the software seemed to work ok. So now I downloaded the 2009 version and went to install it. Normally any upgrade will tell you that an older version was detected and it should be uninstalled or the upgrade offers to remove it. Nothing. I executed the install and without any messages it deleted three quarters of the old install but did not install the new version. But it gave me a message saying to restart to complete installation and when I booted up-no antivirus! I had to manually delete the old directory and re-initiate the installation.

I have a low threshold for poorly written software and this one is really really stupid! The BD support is lacking and good luck calling in. Next year I won’t be so lazy; I’ll do my homework and find a professional AV software.

1 Star Customer support is the pits - product won’t run
I’ve been a BitDefender customer for several years. I recently bought and installed this product and it ran fine on two of my PCs. On the other PC, antivirus scans hang up (forever) on a certain directory. Searches with Google indicate many others have this problem. BitDefender customer support insisted the problem was due to two other programs I have on the PC. I removed them per their request and still have the problem. They never responded to me after that. If you’re one who doesn’t have a problem, you’ll like the software. If you have a problem, it’s a throw-away. I’ve since installed a competitive product on the system and it has no problems with scans. There were other minor Bitdefender drawbacks that I learned to live with, but this one was a showstopper.

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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit English 1pk

1PK VISTA HOME PREM 64BIT DVD

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Amazingly slow
I have been using Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit version patiently for several months now. The “performance indicator” says my Windows Vista experience is a 5.6 out of a possible 5.9 — this is supposed to be some indication of how fast my hardware is. So, my hardware is top notch — brand new HP quad core Phenom 2.4 GHz processor with 8GB of RAM. As a matter of fact, all my hardware gets a 5.9/5.9 except my video card. But, as soon as I boot, I notice the OS is using 1.5GB of RAM, before I touch anything. If I leave Internet Explorer open, it has a memory leak that gets progressively worse and completely overtakes the system within a few hours. I tried to play a movie, and it struggled to decode it fast enough — playback suffered immensely.

My patience has run out. I’m reverting back to Windows XP, or at least installing a dual boot configuration, because this machine is just silly slow. I have brand new, top-of-the-line 64-bit hardware and a crazy amount of RAM; and this machine feels slow. I’m amazed at how inferior of a product this is.

2 Stars vista?
I got Vista which was supposed to be compatible. If you are using Visual Studio, creating ASP.Net applications and connecting to Oracle databases you are out-of-luck. No solutions to that one.

2 Stars Got a Palm? It won’t sync
I just got off the phone with Palm — they have absolutely no products that will be compatible with this Microsoft 64 bit technology. No patches at all, either. So if you have a Palm — watch out — it will NOT work with this. Palm says Microsoft issue. You will not be able to use any Palm software at all. That means if you have a palm PDA, it will forever be stuck in the PDA and not go onto your computer at all, if you get this software.

2 Stars “Such-and-Such Program Has Stopped Working”
…and that’s all she wrote, folks.

Vista is the worst investment I ever made. I would gladly switch back to Windows XP at any time, but then my 8GB of Ram won’t be detected and the computer definitely wouldn’t run to it’s full capacity. Perhaps that’s the only appeal of Vista at this point…being able to run so much Ram that no one is actually going to need for another 4 years (and yes I’m guilty of it too). I have had nothing but problems with this OS since the day it was installed.

If you’re looking to purchase the 64-bit Windows Vista package, make sure that you don’t need your computer for anything important. I can get nothing to work on this computer at all. Everything you have probably heard about Vista’s compatibility issues is true…virtually everything I’ve tried to use so far has not worked. This includes important peripherals and necessary programs. With my previous computer dying of old age and the tremendous deal on OEM parts on NewEgg, I figured Vista was definitely the way to go. I am so badly regretting that decision now. We use my wife’s 5 year old Dell laptop as the primary computer now since my Vista desktop is basically only good for gaming and nothing else.

Here’s a list of all the things that are thus far incompatible with Vista. This is all from first-hand experience:

- Dell Printers

- Limewire

- Olympus Digital Cameras

- Canon Digital Camera

- Various types of USB optical mouse

- Dell Jukebox MP3 Players

- I-Pods

- I-Tunes

- Digital Camcorders

- Roughly 80% of games created pre-2006 (that I’ve tried)

- Various Dell Scanners

- Various HP Printers and Scanners

- Various USB-related devices

- Various speaker systems

- And more every day

I had Vista professionally installed…I don’t know what I’m doing when it comes to installations like that so I wanted to have it done by someone who knows what they are doing. When I gave the person the parts and Vista, I thought he was joking when he said “I’ll see you again in about a month when you want to downgrade back to XP.” If I had only known then what I know now. In one month of owning Vista i’ve had nothing but frustration and anger. The only thing it does well is run World of Warcraft, and my wife is thrilled at the amount of space we have for her Real Arcade games.

I probably sound like I’m just whining…well, I’m one of the many who have had nothing but problems with Vista. As badly as my old computer was running before it just died, it still was compatible with everything I owned. Since I “upgraded” to Vista 64 with my new computer, I haven’t been able to print, scan, load pictures onto my computer, or do anything else that any home office NEEDS.

Don’t be an idiot like me and get Vista because you want 8 gigs of ram, which you DO NOT NEED for any logical reason. XP 64 works just as good, and you won’t have to deal with Vista’s rampant issues. Just think of Vista as the Next “Windows 2000″. Since the new Windows is launching in 2009, Vista is just another Microsoft stumbling block that’s costing us too much money and wasted time. I’m glad I bought this trash product OEM and didn’t pay full price. This is the worst OS I have ever used. Go with XP and stay away from Vista at all costs.

5 Stars Good but…
I would recommend this to any gamer BUT, it has problems running some older games. Also, the other big draw back I wish I would of known about, is you can not really play Game Tap anymore except for the 8-bit games…BIG turn off to me

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