I only saw the BD warning about a compromised site/data leak one time, that was when I went on Facebook the very first time after installing BD Free. I use Bitdefender Free with their Trafficlight browser extension in Firefox on a basic store-bought laptop with 8 GB RAM on Windows 11 22H2 and everything runs nice and smooth, fast and snappy. There is also a friendly online support forum community and tech support by email, chat or phone even for the free version. I think that is a very good user-friendly approach. It is also the only free or paid AV I have ever seen that includes a very complete and easy to understand online owner's manual and setup/troubleshooting guide. I think Bitdefender Antivirus Free is the best of all the free AV's. Avast sent out a cryptic email to its users just last week that said "something big is coming soon" but no one knows what that something is yet. Norton recently bought Avast/AVG and some people are kind of put off by that and worried the quality may go downhill but nothing has changed at Avast/AVG yet. The main problem with the free versions is they really push hard to get you to upgrade. Avast Free and AVG Free both use the same core AV components as the paid versions and you can select which modules you want to install. Their protection is very strong and they do include some modules and components you can actually use. The free Avast/AVG are not terrible AV's, at least for now anyway. Kaspersky still has offices in Moscow and some people have stopped using Kaspersky because of the Russia/Ukraine situation. Kaspersky Free Antivirus is also very good, it has some of the best malware protection you can get and also uses the same core components as the paid Kaspersky AV's and suites, and it has no upsell tactics that I know of. Bitdefender uses more memory when you first install it but during the first day or two of use it will adapt to your system and begin to use a lot less memory. It also alerts if I visit a site like Facebook that has had a recent data breach. Once in a while it will alert me with a message when I use a financial site that it would be more secure with a VPN and asks if I want more info. It stays out of the way and has no pushy upsell tactics. I would say try it and see how you like it.Ĭlick to expand.Bitdefender Antivirus Free has very strong protection and uses the same engine and core components as the paid Bitdefender AV's without the extra modules and components you may not need. It's very good in the anti-malware/antivirus department but it has aspects about the GUI and other components that I just did not need and could not get used to. The Essentials PC version is easy to use and has been tested to give really good malware protection. It sort of looks the same but it is the best Android AV I have found. That said, I do use the free Avast Essentials Android version on my phone. The security part of it works very well but I never could get used to the GUI or the upsell tactics. It's like it was designed as a set and forget AV but it still includes suite components. I never had any trouble with Essential but it is strange in how it is put together. The firewall is very basic and really does not do anything more than the built in Windows firewall.Įssential also still has upsell ads like Avast Free does but the ads are more subtle. Essential is really more like a suite with a lot more components and bloat you might not need like software updater and privacy cleaner. It works well and has the same engine as Avast Free but there are not many settings to tinker with. It looks strange, the GUI is full of cartoon characters, but that has nothing to do with how the AV works I guess.
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