-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Bit Defender

Part of the problem with running more than one AV on the same system at the 
same time is that each AV will often find the other's definition files to be 
greatly offensive.  This specific BitDefender install doesn't use definition 
files.

Another issue is with competing AV scanning engines.  Simply put, they don't 
normally play well together, causing systems to hang, crash or worse.


The passage below is from their online FAQ.

In a nutshell, Quickscan makes an inventory of the programs that are 
running, then tells the server what it found.
If the server doesn't recognize a file, it requests the file to be uploaded. 
Once the server sees a file, it will recognize it by its hash (a sort of 
digital fingerprint) and never request it again.
Now, the first time you run Quickscan on your system no programs are 
'already known' and the server might not know about many of the things 
Quickscan finds. The best way to make Quickscan quicker is for as many 
people as possible to run Quickscan as often as possible for a while.
In an ideal scenario, enough people would have already run quickscan to 
enrich our collection of hashes to the extent that you won't need to upload 
anything. As this is a BETA, that is probably not the case, yet.
Bottom line: the first time (or first few times) you run it it's normal for 
the scan to take longer because of hashing and uploading. Once you get a 
scan to take under 10 seconds, it should stay there unless something big & 
new pops up.


Peace,
Gman

http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php

"The entire future of humankind is yet to be written"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 11:59 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Bit Defender


> G, I know traditional wisdom is to run only one anti-virus program.  Can 
> you
> explain why Bit Defender is the exception?  Does it not run in the
> background?  Does it scan and fix problems upon demand?  I don't think I
> used it but once and I did not think to shut down AVG while I ran it.
> Sandi 

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