I just purchased a one year subscription to bitdefender total security 2024 version during the newegg website cyber monday sale for $15.99/year for five devices. Does anyone on this subreddit use bitdefender total security and if so how do you like it. Previously I was just utilizing the windows security that comes included with windows 11.
I used bitdefender total for the last 3 years. Never had any problems with it. I recently switched to eset bc it was really hard to know what bitdefender was doing. With eset i get more useful info to get a bigger picture of whats going on with my system. ( plus it has more advanced options bd doesn’t have available to the end user. )
Never had a major incident with using bd. It was incredibly “boring” to use. ( and I mean that in a good way) it’s a good upgrade from just using windows defender.
I’ve been using Bitdefender Total Security for years at home and Gravityzone even longer in a large enterprise environment and have always liked it. It been the best bang for the buck feature and protection wise for the price I’ve found. Loaded up 5 years of Total Security last year during Black Friday, just added 5 years of their VPN on sale as well this year as my NordVPN was expiring and only need a VPN occasionally so couldn’t justify Nord’s high prices. The Bitdefender is “heavy” is blown way out of proportion, using 200MB more of RAM but the same amount of CPU as competitors does not equal a slow PC unless it’s absolutely starved for resources on a really old 4GB machine. u/r4ckless hit it on the head in my opinion, it’s boring in a good way because it’s so set it and forget it.
I bought a 3 device license of Eset Internet Security during the Newegg sale to play around with since they are mentioned a lot on this subreddit. I just find it way more clunky to use in the settings and configuration, the MacOS Cyber Security 7.X is a bit of a dumpster fire in comparison to Bitdefender for Mac, their new Browser Security Add-On doesn’t even support Safari. The Windows version is fine and works as advertised. I think “power users” are drawn to Eset because it has a bunch of check boxes and radial buttons to adjust protection in settings but feels like security theatre more than anything. Their enterprise product protection settings are the same GUI and everything as their home version, looking at the testing companies if you read the fine print they have to crank everything to the aggressive non-standard defaults in those tests. They are still beat by Bitdefender who leaves everything at normal levels (which the consumer versions are locked at) actually disables some of their advanced modules (HyperDetect). Even on sale they are also one of the most expensive, unless you desperately need the lowest RAM usage possible I don’t see how the cost is justified from a protection stand point.
I use BitDefender Free and it has not failed me yet.
Detection levels good, amount of system resources and ram it takes up makes it closer to glorified bloatware though.
Thanks so much for all of your replies, I thought I’d receive a variety of answers which I did.
Thanks so much for your response, I actually thought about using eset but since the bitdefender total security product was on sale at what I feel like a good price I went with it. Just for your information, I just left the Newegg.com website and they still have a variety of security software on sale.
Just a heads up I work as computer technician and we had laptops with Eset blocking camera access and only way to fix it was to remove Eset. Which is bummer because I love Eset and use their online scanner all the time
Thanks for your informative reply, I really wish now that I would have done a bit more digging around on the newegg website and I probably would have discovered that a two year subscription for bitdefender total security for just a little bit more money than I paid for the one year subscription I purchased.
Thanks for your response, I know in the latest AVLabs tests it’s not showing that fact, and of course I’m NOT insinuating you are giving out false information. I’m still liking bitdefender total security software better than windows security that comes with windows 11.
According to the major av testing sites it’s still rated very well overall, and of course I’m not any kind of a security expert but I think it performs as good as if not better than windows security that comes built-in with windows 11.
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It comes around every year for Black Friday and Cyber Monday for Bitdefender and many of the other antiviruses so your license should expire just in time for the deals. In Bitdefender Central (your account portal) you can stack up to 5 years of a given license at a time but they must be 1 for 1. Meaning you can’t buy a 15 device 2 year Family Pack and add it onto your existing 5 device Total Security plan even though both are technically Total Security, if you already have a 15 device plan then it simply extends the validly by 365 days or whatever you bought. Last year I went from a 5 device to Family Pack and support was kind enough to convert the remain time I had on Total Security to a proportionate Family Pack license.
Not sure how Eset or Norton accounts for example handle it, I heard it requires contacting their support to combine multiple licenses but I don’t have first hand experience with them besides my single play license that I won’t be renewing.
It’s not worth the fight, this guy is a infamous troll on this subreddit that it doesn’t matter how many independent labs or verifiable information you show otherwise disproving him, your still always wrong and only he is right… because reasons but then never backs it up with anything. Look at his post history across this subreddit and all the other PC and gaming subreddits on his profile, everyone else is always wrong and is just toxic in general.
So what you are trying to explain to me is that I might be able to add some additional time to the subscription plan that I’ve already purchased, that’s very interesting.