Bitdefender Free Antivirus (NEW)

Bitdefender Free Antivirus 2022 (new version) tested against malware and ransomware. Is this the best free antivirus for Windows?

[theirisheditor]

If you use any paid cloud drives that map as a drive letter (e.g. pCloud), be sure to disable flash drive scanning in this new BitDefender Free version. Otherwise it may choke the Internet connection scanning everything on the Cloud drive after every Windows start-up, particularly if there's several hundred GB of files on the cloud drive. This caught me be by surprise as I'm on a rural LTE based Internet connection.

[OscarZheng]

i like how bitdefender said "you are safe" the whole way through the test

[bananaproductions-ix]

"bitdefender can be overly aggresive-"
SHUT! THATS AN ANTIVIRUS I NEED.

[geraldread]

Great video, Leo look forward to more testing of the bitdefender product range ( Total Security) keep up the good work thanks.

[desmond]

It's nice to see we got more free alternatives to Kaspersky. Thanks for the test!

[maxlin]

Good video, looking forward to see the comparison between BitDefender Free (new ver.) VS Kaspersky Free.

[Tomb_Raider]

Great content as always, Please test Trend Micro with an automated script. I am curious to know how it performs when malwares are executed. Its been a while since you uploaded Trend micro test video. Looking forward to that.

[BeastK]

Leo, Thanks for testing detection rate of this antivirus.
I'm curious about the detection rate of Kaspersky Free Antivirus.

[petrgrebenicek]

Thank you for testing it.
If you are thinking about more content, I would definetly watch firewall tests.

[Tomb_Raider]

Im curious for Bitdefender vs F Secure in terms of malware detection and blocking at execution level.

[hassanfazeel]

You forgot to check the text files, pictures and documents whether its infected or not

[Ranger]

Can you do a test of Comodo again? I’d love to see their “container” stress tested against threats.

[ajanthony]

One more thing, make sure everyday, you go into your browsers and check for updates to both the browser and the extensions. Things can get out of date really quickly.

[kamaltakhssit]

There a tierlist of Free versions of anti virus and firewalls?

[Daxter]

bitdefender really needs a lot of babysitting. it can even block savefiles of some games. having to whitelist specific files all the time is indeed quite annoying, but seeing the reason for it (as shown here - killing the whole process in powershell) at least gives me a good feeling that my pc is protected even if i do something stupid. and that's why a good AV is so important.

[joshpark]

I love your videos. So interesting to put these AVs to an actual test

[gsuper]

Omg!! I am so excited to see Bitdefender free, but I will install it on one of my old laptop coz I have been using Windows defender with hardened tweaked settings. It's working superb at the moment!! Thanks leo!!

[SchinTeth]

Thanks, I didnt know they relaunched their free version. Thanks

[ChargePositive]

This new version forces me to uninstall malwarebytes, whereas the previous version worked well alongside it

[vhalko]

Kaspersky has a new free version of their AV .. It would be very interesting to see how it fairs against your tests, if you have the time to test it of course ... thnx for the great content