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Last updated: Friday, June 26, 2009

In a recent lab test, we decided to see what software is better at finding Malware.  On a machine running Bitdefender we decided to install and run Malwarebytes to see if it would pick up anything.  And it did.  Bitdefender has been sitting on:

Trojan.Downloader

Trojan.FakeAlert

Disable.SecurityCenter

Malwarebytes picked up this malware and removed them.  What is so amazing is that, this sofware is FREE compared to the Internet Security Suite of Bitdefender that we purchased.  These days, it’s coming to our attention that these free software are really not that bad.  Even AVG Free edition is now very competitve compared to Bitdefender.

It is sad to say that Bitdefender’s standards have drastically dropped since the last six months.  There WERE ranked high in our book as a highly recommend antivirus software, but now we take it back.

Read our next article and we will tell you why.

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