These people are stupid-greedy. I filled out the online order form and got to the bottom where they ask permission to store my credit card information and charge automatic renewal in a year. Amazon is the only place I trust to keep my credit card info on file so I unchecked the box. The website refused to continue unless I gave permission. I called Digital River (order processing for Bitdefender) and wasted 20 minutes on the phone with some english-as-a-second-language sales rep just to order a one year subscription. Update: the invoice came with automatic renewal written on it - now I use Kaspersky - on all 8 machines I buy for. If you have to have this program give them a temporary credit card # or one that is about to expire. Or -you could buy it here, but watch out during registration.

I have been using Bitdefender AV for several years, and am satisfied overall. I have also been using the Comodo firewall with Defense+ for several years without conflict with BD AV.

I have seen web forum complaints of Comodo firewall incompatibility with recent AV programs from various manufacturers, including BD. Much of the web badmouthing of software products is marginally coherent to say the least, and so I decided to take a chance.

Well, Bitdefender AV 2012 and the latest Comodo firewall will totally mess up Windows Vista. The combo shuts down MANY services and your screen becomes animated with many popups announcing that lots of services, from Windows Explorer to your bluetooth mouse/keyboard drivers have been closed. Not good. Time to press the reset button if you have one (I do).

I like both products, so I investigated. I uninstalled both, and installed each with ALL unnecessary services disabled. First Comodo followed by BD; that was a... Read more

I have been in the computer industry as a Support Engineer for Over 30 for E.D.S. (E.C.N.E, CCIE, & Etc.), and this software is just plain buggy, just like Kaspersky Pure Total Security. Both program bog down and crash Windows 7 without much of a problem. I have new build of Windows 7 Professional(about a month old) with all the MS patches and either program is a resource hog and sometimes requires a reboot to clear up the issue. I run out of memory just using a full Virus Scan with a fast quad processor and 8GB of RAM-go figure?

I am going back to either Norton's NIS 2012 or Norton's 360 V5.0, which catch like 98% of the viruses, but at least I can run Word without the computer bogging down. Do yourself a favour, don't be a BETA tester for buggy software.

Dr. (c) James B. Kirk, CW5((r)CA ARNG)