Bitdefender 2013 Antivirus Plus............FREE
Saturday, February 9, 2013 by Leo the Lion | Discussion: Personal Computing
Just seen this on Neowin............Legit...........and free............servers are being hammered so you might have to be patient.
Thank you Leo...........You're welcome............
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Reply #22 Friday, March 8, 2013 11:27 AM
MSE does have bad detection, and this is coming from a fan of it. But it also has a fantastic lack of false positives.
BitDefender goes a little overboard with the network scanning...it affects legit programs (The Secret World launcher for one example) pretty obnoxiously and I couldn't find a way to fix it without disabling features. The free version no longer silently and unrecoverably deletes, and unlike MSE it supports my WHS2011 box so I stuck it on there. No intention of using it on normal OSes though.
I like Panda Cloud.
Reply #23 Friday, March 8, 2013 2:51 PM
Because on my old system I did not have the resources to let any program use the ability to automatically update itself. System would freeze. Besides, in every test I have seen, MSE rates very low. AVG and Avast get higher marks.
Reply #24 Friday, March 8, 2013 4:06 PM
I'll stick with Vipre. If I had more control with MSE in windows 8 I would still be using it instead of Vipre. 
Reply #25 Friday, March 8, 2013 4:13 PM
Just a word of caution to those with older hardware and XP - Bitdefender active (on-use) scanning can really slow XP down, particularly with older CPU's &/or 1Gb of RAM or less. It really needs newer hardware to be unobtrusive.
Works great if you turn it off. 
EDIT: We have recently installed BitDefender Small Business Security on all our workstations, most XP but on newer hardware with 2-4Gb RAM. It has no noticeable impact on performance on those* or our Win7 rigs and false positives have not been a problem. We happened to have 2 very old XP rigs which really took a performance hit with it, however, and have been special-purposed or ditched as a result. In addition, the firewall is very aggressive out of the box and requires some whitelisting for file transfers with remote sites; I consider that a good feature, but there was no forewarning about this behavior which caused some consternation until we figured it out.
*We also found that it really impacted Dragon Naturally Speaking on XP, making it so slow it was unusable; only involved 2 users, though, both of whom are planning to upgrade their rigs soon anyway and are using other free AV programs until then.
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Reply #21 Friday, March 8, 2013 10:38 AM
Quoting LightStar, reply 19I don't see why people don't like MSE
Can't turn off the auto updates
Bad detection rates
Uhmm, why would anyone want to turn off automatic updates of an anti-virus program Kona? That would defeat the purpose of even having it in the first place, and bad detection rates? According to who? Those companies that test and rate AV products? Well, lets just say that they are more than likely "influenced" by outside sources.
Like I said, I have maybe only had 5-6 times when something was detected and quarantined since MSE came out, but it has always done its job flawlessly.