Does Anyone Else Here Have Bitdefender Antivirus? If So, Do You Use The VPN?

[aboutime]

Provided Free with my ISP, and updates almost daily as new threats appear.

Never had any problems. Top of the line protection. By the way. ENCRYPTION is the standard for all Virus protection. And it has been improved with the SECURE versions of HTML..."https://" instead of the old "http://". Banks and large corporations, like Insurance, and Even Medical facilities use it to protect their services.
They call it SSL Protection, or a Certificate.
http://info.ssl.com/article.aspx?id=10241
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral.
What is SSL? - SSL.com
Just a little helpful info to save you some bucks.

[NightTrain]

Provided Free with my ISP, and updates almost daily as new threats appear.

Never had any problems. Top of the line protection. By the way. ENCRYPTION is the standard for all Virus protection. And it has been improved with the SECURE versions of HTML..."https://" instead of the old "http://". Banks and large corporations, like Insurance, and Even Medical facilities use it to protect their services.
They call it SSL Protection, or a Certificate.
http://info.ssl.com/article.aspx?id=10241
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral.
What is SSL? - SSL.com
Just a little helpful info to save you some bucks.

Yikes, AT... I would strongly urge you to get something other than McAfee. IMHO, McAfee & Norton / Symantec are the worst AV out there.

Just my $0.02, buddy... you won't go wrong with either BitDefender or WebRoot.

[jimnyc]

Yikes, AT... I would strongly urge you to get something other than McAfee. IMHO, McAfee & Norton / Symantec are the worst AV out there.

Just my $0.02, buddy... you won't go wrong with either BitDefender or WebRoot.

I can say this about McAfee - as someone who installed it on about 2,000 machines and worked on all of those machines for years while at the law firm...

BLOATED and truly will slow down your computer, whether it works great or not.

I now use Kaspersky and you can't even feel it. I also use a 'few' programs in addition to clean and help my computer run smooth.

Avg FREE is even a good version. These days, honestly, they are all pretty good. I just like those that leave the smallest footprint!

[aboutime]

Yikes, AT... I would strongly urge you to get something other than McAfee. IMHO, McAfee & Norton / Symantec are the worst AV out there.

Just my $0.02, buddy... you won't go wrong with either BitDefender or WebRoot.

But, being on a limited, rigid income, I believe most of you would never survive on. I have to accept the Free services provided by the ISP.
In case anyone is wondering what I am talking about. We aren't middle-class here. Truth is. We live (according to the govt) at the recognized poverty level, less than 35K a year.

Sure, I get my navy pension, with a 20% disability, and we both collect S.S. But, out of that, we have to pay our Medicare to S.S. And only have TRICARE, from the Military that pays whatever Medicare doesn't. Having access to the Internet is one of the only joys we have, since we are unable to travel, play golf, go fishing, or eat out all the time.
As for travel, we have two vehicles...a 2000 Ford, and a 1996 Honda Accord.
That's high on the hog for us, since we don't have any car payments.

Anyone want to trade?

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Well, you only get 200MB of data daily for free, otherwise you have to PAY. I was under the impression it came with Bitdefender for free. I feel like a sap. NOTHING on the internet is FREE. I should KNOWN there'd be a catch, even though they do NOT tell you there's a cap or you PAY, $39.99 a year. I'll let them stew on the fact that I uninstalled it. They usually send you a "deal" a week or so later. Probably get the "unlimited data" for like $24.95 a year or something.

I uninstalled it.

[Drummond]

I recently tried purchasing the full (premium) version of Malwarebytes, having just used their trial version, which I was pleased with. The payment I attempted never reached them (I've no idea why). So ... I have been considering alternatives, and Bitdefender seemed the ideal one.

If my second attempt to pay for the premium Malwarebytes also fails, I'm going to go with Bitdefender.

Kaspersky looks good, and sells, apparently, at a cut price. HOWEVER ... the British Government was given advice, a warning, not to install Kaspersky on any of their computers.

See this:

https://news.sky.com/story/british-g...tware-11152445

The Government has been warned by Britain's main cyber security agency not to use Russian anti-virus software.

Moscow-based security software maker Kaspersky Lab is the largest Russian software agency operating in the UK.

Director of the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Ciaran Martin, said Russia has the intent "to target UK central Government and the UK's critical national infrastructure".

In a letter to Whitehall chiefs, he said Russian software should be avoided in systems containing information concerning national security.

Calling Russia a "highly capable cyber threat actor", he said the country uses cyberspace for "espionage, disruption and influence operations".

[No doubt some passing Russian contributor (Balu ?) will come on here to complain about supposed anti-Russian propaganda ... ?]

By the way, on VPN's .. I see no good reason to use them, not if anti-virus & anti-malware software is up to its promised spec. Except for one, that is. If you wanted to use a foreign media outlet's services, VPN's should be a good way of gaining access. For example - if (however improbably !) someone in the US wanted to open an access account to the BBC's 'iPlayer' video service, it locks out all attempts if they seemingly originate from beyond the UK. With a VPN set up to use a UK-based server ... 'iPlayer', so I've read, can be fooled into thinking that's where you're from. Therefore, you get access.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

So... after doing a lot of reading, today I signed up for the ExpressVPN. Seems to be the best one. Keeps popping up as the best one, even better than Nord. Didn't read a lot of good about the Bitdefender VPN, but I'm sick and tired of my IP and Google and everyone else snooping on my every keystroke. So far, so good with ExpressVPN. Has great speed, lots of choices of where to connect, great encryption, 15 months with 3 months free and a 30 day money back guarantee.

https://www.expressvpn.com/
@jimnyc

[High_Plains_Drifter]

I recently tried purchasing the full (premium) version of Malwarebytes, having just used their trial version, which I was pleased with. The payment I attempted never reached them (I've no idea why). So ... I have been considering alternatives, and Bitdefender seemed the ideal one.

If my second attempt to pay for the premium Malwarebytes also fails, I'm going to go with Bitdefender.

Kaspersky looks good, and sells, apparently, at a cut price. HOWEVER ... the British Government was given advice, a warning, not to install Kaspersky on any of their computers.

See this:

https://news.sky.com/story/british-g...tware-11152445



[No doubt some passing Russian contributor (Balu ?) will come on here to complain about supposed anti-Russian propaganda ... ?]

By the way, on VPN's .. I see no good reason to use them, not if anti-virus & anti-malware software is up to its promised spec. Except for one, that is. If you wanted to use a foreign media outlet's services, VPN's should be a good way of gaining access. For example - if (however improbably !) someone in the US wanted to open an access account to the BBC's 'iPlayer' video service, it locks out all attempts if they seemingly originate from beyond the UK. With a VPN set up to use a UK-based server ... 'iPlayer', so I've read, can be fooled into thinking that's where you're from. Therefore, you get access.

I have the Malware Bytes free version, and have CCleaner the free version also. Great stuff.

I'm really loving this Express VPN. I don't even know it's there, but I know that now ALL my internet activity is HIDDEN, not even my IP can see it.