[Cosmin_C]

A while ago I caved in and purchased and installed Bitdefender, which I knew was all right.

It wasn't. I didn't renew the license and uninstalled it.

FFWD a couple years and my best friend upgrades his PC. Threadripper Zen 2, 128GB RAM, 2x NVME RAID 0 for the system, another NVME for stuff and HDDs for backups. System was incredibly sluggish and unresponsive and his extra NVME was sometimes dropping from the list of drives shown by explorer. Uninstalled his Bitdefender and all the issues disappeared.

It's just complete robbery at this point. Malwarebytes is a good product for example and Windows Defender is enough. But the best stuff is disabling all of these and just use script blockers and safe browsing practices and you get to keep all the processing power you paid for.

[meibo]

BitDefender is one of the bigger scams out there. I wholly believe that they operate based on a "blacklist everything first" policy, because that lets them tout their 99,99% detection rate.

I run a big open source project and the amount of people that complain to us about BitDefender deleting our software is staggering.

[schleck8]

Bitdefender has a good false positive rate though according to av comparatives, in contrast to norton which has the most

https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/real-world-protection-...

[mrjin]

Well, let's take it from a different angle: We don't need malwares but AV vendors do. If there were no malwares, there would be no AV vendors too.

[wiseleo]

Ransomware is a real problem. I despise malware disguised as mainstream antivirus solutions, but we need to protect users from ransomware and that’s a tough problem. I am working in that space.

[lordnacho]

Not sure this is true. Just the fear should be enough to get people to buy. Look at organised religion.

[ejanus]

Please link to 'script blockers'.