Product: Developed by SOFTWIN, BitDefender offers integrated firewall features, P2P protection, and registry modification monitoring along with its traditional antivirus components. Choose from one of the categories below to learn more about this product.
Reviews:
- BitDefender: Top Pick for 2003 and 2004
Certification: It is important to note that certification testing is paid for by the vendor. For various reasons, a vendor may choose to submit to only one or two of the certifying agencies. Thus, the absence of certification may not mean the product failed - it may simply have never been submitted. However, if a product has received no certification, or relatively few in comparison to its peers, this fact should not be taken lightly.
The majority of certification tests are performed using Wildlist (ItW) testing. Wildlist (ItW) testing only determines a given product's ability to detect a relatively small number of viruses for which samples have been provided and the virus has been known for some time - generally at least a month or more.
Check the following websites for up-to-date certification results for this product:
Independent testing: Independent tests are just that - independent. No money exchanges hands between vendor and tester, products are not re-tested multiple times in order to achieve a pass, and testing is extended beyond the mere Wildlist.
Two independent testing agencies distinguish themselves by offering extensive Zoo and ItW testing, as well as specific examination of a product's ability to detect certain classes or types of threats.
- AV-Test.org - led by Andreas Marx, AV-Test.org is the agency relied upon by this site for its Top Picks and by notable German magazines PC-Welt and ComputerBild for their antivirus reviews.
- University of Hamburg - the VTC Test Team is headed by Klaus Brunnstein and, as is the case with AV-Test.org, incorporates both viral and non-viral malware samples in the tests to more closely approximate threats a user might typically encounter.
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Platforms supported: SOFTWIN's BitDefender provides desktop virus protection for MS-DOS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows (95/98, NT, 2000, ME, XP), Groupware solutions for Exchange, SMTP, SendMail, QMail, and Postfix servers, as well as ISA, SharePoint, and NT/2000 servers.
For additional product information, to download a trial version, or to purchase BitDefender, visit the company website at www.bitdefender.com.
