Bullguard Internet Security Suite

[kendall]

Observations continued:

1. A full scan of 2 hard drives (137 GB, 37 GB) took 2 hours and 7 minutes. Not a real speed demon....

2. Even though I've never downloaded it before and even though I got it during the correct period of time, my status still shows it as 60 day trial period.

3. I still like the interface. It's easy to navigate and very straight-forward.

[renzo54]

Originally Posted by renzo54

installed BD have run through the teaching process but run into a snag.

I run Remote desktop over Cisco VPN on XP, gave allow to BG for both apps but remote desktop hangs and can't connect.

Had no problems with the apps while running Avira AntiVir Personal

any ideas?

the long and the short of the answer is to start Cisco VPN, stop BG's firewall then run remote desktop

[WES]

Originally Posted by kendall

Observations continued:

1. A full scan of 2 hard drives (137 GB, 37 GB) took 2 hours and 7 minutes. Not a real speed demon....

2. Even though I've never downloaded it before and even though I got it during the correct period of time, my status still shows it as 60 day trial period.

3. I still like the interface. It's easy to navigate and very straight-forward.

I personally find Vipre an excellent security solution, I am unimpressed with BullGuard and the way they are handling their relations with their potential customers. Very superficial and untrustworthy from the start.

[JonathanT]

Originally Posted by WES

I personally find Vipre an excellent security solution

Personally, I don't see why you would pay for an unknown AV when there are plenty of others which have proven to be good.

Originally Posted by WES

I am unimpressed with BullGuard and the way they are handling their relations with their potential customers. Very superficial and untrustworthy from the start.

Could you explain further?
Thanks

[WES]

Originally Posted by JonathanT

Personally, I don't see why you would pay for an unknown AV when there are plenty of others which have proven to be good.


Could you explain further?
Thanks

In short, a golden ***. That's what they are.
Unknown you say? Because I have tested it, has small memory footprint, does not give headaches to the user and it stops most nowadays malwares.
For safe surfing more than enough. For those of us not always practicing safe surfing adding the free sandboxie makes sense, and I feel a lot safer than anyone of U running BullGuard.

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[MidnightCowboy]

Originally Posted by kendall

Observations continued:

2. Even though I've never downloaded it before and even though I got it during the correct period of time, my status still shows it as 60 day trial period.

Thanks for your observations Kendall. Please contact Bullguard using the support link provided in the program interface and they will then adjust your account to show 365 days instead of 60.

[MidnightCowboy]

Originally Posted by WES

I personally find Vipre an excellent security solution, I am unimpressed with BullGuard and the way they are handling their relations with their potential customers. Very superficial and untrustworthy from the start.

Not sure how these from our comments section fit in with your analysis of Bullguard's support?

"Had the same license problem as many others, contacted Bullguard in a civilized manner via live chat, a minute later it was fixed by reentering user name and password! Great support, great software works like a dream!"

"Greetings from downunder, have installed the software as per above instructions on two PC's using the same downloaded file.
Father-in-laws shows 365 days lic,
Mine 60 days.
Used online chat contained within BullGuard and Tech - updated my lic and sent my copy a updated ticket, I then selected "check status" - i now have 365 days.
Brilliant support, dare I say best I've received for software support - took 3 minutes all up
NB Before installation I removed all other malware and virus protections programs and rebooted."




Vipre has always suffered from a range of issues including including poor rootkit detection. This extract from AV_Comparatives forum.

"We were testing an up-to-date Vipre with a clean system scanning an infected drive. It did not detect or block the W32.Downadup!autorun or the Downadup/Conficker worm. No detection and no results on a scan. It let the virus migrated to a flash drive as well.

We had to use Avira to clean it up. In the case of the autorun, we fixed manually. "

Recently though the product has improved and finally their CEO is reacting to pressure for verifiable testing and (so we are told) soon Vipre is to be featured by AV_Comparatives. Their previous response to this pressure was to invite Remove-Malware.com to run a test which later backfired when McAfee SiteAdvisor published reports about browser exploits on the Remove-Malware webpage and abusive spamming by mods from their forum.

As it stands at the moment Vipre is no better or worse than several alternatives but in my opinion Prevx would be a better option for anyone unwilling to use a freeware alternative.

[WES]

Vipre is really light on system resources. As for the civilized manners thing this is an insult like many recently. Because it means we are all *****s and we are not. And as for the rootkit detection thing, no security solution is good at detecting or removing rootkits, don't be naive. There are only three logical alernatives that can make sense 1.) Virtualizing your windows environment with sandboxie, returnil, shadow defender and using a good scanner along the way, like Dr.Web or Malwarebytes'. 2.) Using an antimalware solution that will not give you headaches and is still reasonably good at stopping malwares and light on system resources.
3.) Running something else other than Windows.

[WES]

By the way, I was curious because some people started to complain. I was very civilized and it did not help. I personally don't care if they have changed now their attitude, nor the people contacting me about the whole issue before I have had the time to investigate myself.

[WES]

Talking of rootkits, take a look at the results of bitdefender vs bullguard.

Yes that was back in 2008, but they were using bitdefender back then as well.
Although it is lighter than bitdefender, that's for sure, despite outpost (not sure about HIPS though)

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