Great video and testing! I prefer Kaspersky because it seems a lot less intrusive throwing a lot less false positives which makes more of a pleasant user experience. Plus Kaspersky's pricing is simply unmatched for what it offers in my opinion.
@@rounakr94This site is so popular (so and TPSC recommended this site at his video. But idk, maybe they do maybe not. But if you look other tests at the site Kaspersky winned at all (even in ukraine war) but in last test Bitdefender winned.
I was a long time Norton customer and fan but abandoned it 3 years ago when they had stopped sales via 3rd party in my region and moved to Kaspersky. Never looked back.
This is a scam page directing folks to Russian malware. The notion a security tool out of Russia doesn't except Russian malware is insane. Any time FSB makes a call, they have to make exceptions or they get thrown out the window like everyone else. Also, why support Russia as it commits genocide??
Defender works perfectly fine. Combine with open dns, ublock origin and strong unique passwords and air gapped backups, you are good. Unless you store other peoples sensitive data, then you need proper advice.
@@nadie4221 "it was much cheaper to buy it new again" - this was exactly the same with my Bitdefender renewal last year where buying it new was much cheaper than their renewal price. Customer loyalty means nothing these days (as if we didn't know). Same with house/car insurance etc. Stay savvy, don't blindly auto-renew.
How could we have been waiting for this when he just did a kaspersky vs 2000 malware video 2 months ago. What we are waiting for is for people to quit testing kaspersky every other week and give other AV and malware tools a chance.
Kaspersky is a awesome low resource heavy antivirus which is very very good so why quit a antivirus that's reliable have very good protection and low impact on pc
@@billyguthrie3176 well he said we had been waiting for this, so maybe he meant we had been waiting, up until he did a kaspersky vs 2000 malware video 2 months ago
Thanks for doing the tests and the results. It increased my confidence in my choice of Bitdefender. Like you mentioned they are both good at their intended purpose.
Your work is exemplary, Leo. Your work is critically important to me; I can think about such testing but I could NEVER to it. Now, I feel informed; thanks!
Both Kaspersky and Bitdefender have strong anti-malware capabilities, but their methods are slightly different. Kaspersky provides a System Watcher component that monitors system activity and uses various databases and algorithms to detect and block suspicious activity, effectively protecting against zero-day threats and ransomware. On the other hand, Bitdefender excels at real-time protection and has a slightly better result in detecting and eliminating 2,000 types of malware during testing.
Big difference I see at first test is, that Bitdefender tells you afterwards "Everything is fine", while Kasperky tells you, that your system is at risk.
Great as usual. Surprised to see that both Kaspersky and BitDefender scores are almost matching which means BitDefender improved a lot. But again I would prefer Kaspersky anytime because its less costly and consumes much less resources than BitDefender. Also any type of scan can be customized in Kaspersky which seems to be somewhat restricted in BitDefender. Anyway, either of the two are great products.
As a American i feel more comfortable having a russian company monitor my internet than a American company. Going to go with no anti virus after kaspersky is banned.
@@pablovonduckbill7802 Sophos Security is from UK, if i’m not mistaken. Worked as an IT-assistant for a big private equity company in Düsseldorf (Germany) until 2022. They praised it. Would love to hear some expert view on Sophos. Edit: the Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf uses Sophos too (at least they did 2018, when i worked there last as IT assistent)
This is a scam page directing folks to Russian malware. The notion a security tool out of Russia doesn't except Russian malware is insane. Any time FSB makes a call, they have to make exceptions or they get thrown out the window like everyone else. Also, why support Russia as it commits genocide? ??
I don't know why. Bitdefender got the better protection in this year and also in this test. Kaspersky is just better configurable. But both are running well on Windows. I can't decide between Kaspersky & Bitdefender. I think I need two systems 😅
@@kennyzschinsch7120 Trying to whitelist apps and their dependencies in bitdefender is an absolute fucking nightmare!!. Its easy in kaspersky, generally kaspersky is much easier to use.
@hasanayham1063 BD is far from Finished. You're fanboying for fucking Anti-Virus software. I always recommended BD or Kaspersky. Both products are great.
I'm using Kaspersky, but just because it's very light on system resources .. there are only two background processes running in the background while Bitdefender has 8 or 9 of them, eating up your CPU and RAM.
It takes around 700-1GB with 0% CPU usage, I wouldn't call that intensive considering most new CPU's have many cores and notably weaker cores for this task
How did you activate the unlimited VPN in the Plus version of Kaspersky? I own it (Total Security to Kaspersky Plus) and I don't have the unlimited VPN
Never saw a comparison between the two. Was interesting to see because I use Kaspersky and have used Bitdefender a few years ago. All in all, I think you're safe with either program, thank you, for sharing!
Bitdefender and kaspersky both are great. But the problem with bitdefender is, they too much eating RAM or CPU and sometime, the web blocking dosen't always work. But to be honest, both product are great
I like your new software suggestions! Just wanted to share Immersive Translate with you. It’s been essential for accessing international software resources.
We've been using it since 2008, not a single infection since then... back then, I was also a not very vigilant child, known to download malware on a weekly basis 😂
This is nice! I've been a Bitdefender user for years with my family and PCs. I couldn't trust Kaspersky before as they had a lot of product upgrade spam. It just irritated me. Nice to know their performance is up!
both antivirus are too good around 2 year ago, i tried bitdefender ,but due to unavoidable notification by bitdefender i have to shift to Kaspersky, but just after few months later when people complaint about this, bitdefender allowed users to stop notifications
I'll always stick with Kaspersky. They're 1 of the best antivirus software. No doubt Bitdefender is great, but I still rate Kaspersky the best. They never miss anything, so you're completely safe
With today's technology, it doesn't matter much. Even the free AV programs are more or less at par with the expensive ones. To me, the issue is how quickly an AV company reacts to a new threat.
to many false positives with windows defender and they delete half of your programs on you..... keygens or what ever windows defender will delete off your system
Of the two, Kaspersky is lighter on resources. However, at least on my machine, it would cause Windows Updates to crash every once in a while. Although you can't go wrong with either product.
i still use Bitdefender but I run my browser in Sandboxie...at the end of the day I delete the sandbox. That way there is nothing left on my PC. Not even cookies.
As always, these videos are never disappointing. On another note, how do you collect these samples from the internet? Is there software, or is it manual work??
I love Kaspersky but boy it's expensive, the 3 year plan bitdefender is cheaper than 1 year plan Kaspersky. And the difference is really huge, for 3 years Kaspersky I need to pay for 5 times the price than bitdefender with the same period of time
Super comparison! Can we see a comparison between Sophos enterprise and Bit defender enterprise? I use for various companies the Sophos security suite and I must say it's rock solid, especially it's tamper protection! Happy to provide a license for a Sophos enterprise endpoint to test
Uh you don't want that, imagine having your child in a playground surrounded by predators, but telling nothing because they're all getting caught before entering it...
Adobe Reader is legitimate software by Adobe, why would anything detect it? It was likely bundled in some installer/adware, however Adobe Reader itself is not malicious and was allowed to install, and anything else that may have tried to be installed was blocked.
@@Hecklezz true it is legitimate software but then why did one antivirus allow it and the other one didn't? Kaspersky must have noticed something was wrong and prevented the install.
@@gremory0 Probably a fake Adobe Reader installer. It legitimately installs Reader but trojans another software inside. BitDefender probably blocked the Trojan payload but let Adobe Reader install just fine. I once got a virus because I stupidly downloaded a Firefox update from a non-firefox website without thinking over a decade ago. Took a few hours to clean up the damage caused by that.
It is a tough call, because they are both excellent programs. Personally, I don't mind false positives. Kaspersky has a great user interface that you can tweak quite a lot. If I have to have a Microsoft-based tool , and a anti-malware program starts "clutching at its pearls", I will just run it in a sandbox in a host M$ OS running under a Linux hypervisor, and see what goes on with it. Web apps are more dangerous generically because they can crack your browser on whatever the box is, and try to escalate control from there. So if you are going to sandbox anything, make it your browser, IMHO. I like the DOM idea in QUBES OS. The hypervisor OS has no internet connection, and you can create host OSes [of any flavour] from templates, and you interact with the world from the guest OS's. If you get into trouble with one, just delete it. It can always be respawned afresh from your templates. You update DOM from the most hardened guest OS, and never use that virtual machine for anything else. You can use a different secure OS for sensitive info [like internet banking or whatever], and another OS as your "daily driver". It is the best compromise I have seen that gives your hardened OS capability and yet the convenience of moderate security for normal tasks.
As a bitdefender user for multiple years and not any crudware that i know of in my pc they have a customer for life. Not that resource intensive either. Looking to add the VPN asap.
I run Bit Defender for the fam and have been very happy with them. I had a scare from a hacked NAS (not mine, I just had access to it) a few years ago that made me tighten down everything tighter than a bull's asshole. Sad that you need so much protection these days.
Bitdefender failed me with a very sneaky RAT that was a persistent threat. The malware was able to disable Bitdefender immediately (I'm assuming through remote commands) and then do whatever it needed to to Windows to shield it from view. Then the app started back up again and made no peep about the malware. I abandoned Bitdefender after that. I'm now using Kaspersky with VPN. Hoping this one does better but I'm not holding my breath.
🤔 You left me thinking the approach of the products... I have Kaspersky installed for my parents that are not very techie... I think they would scare if something sort of executes... I will reflect on that. Thank you!
Great video. But instead of only malware tests can you also look into the advanced threat defenses of these antivirus since they they pose quite a major issue. For malware tests antivirus are getting better at detecting them
Bitdefender looks pretty good here! Might use them to run my firewall for my Netgear home router. Does anyone think that will get in the way of running Sophos on my home systems though?
@@erikkonstas I meant it looked like he'd set up a snapshot ready to run the test, just without AV software which could be cloned to test free versions with minimal effort. Probably still can't be fagged though... YTers...
Bitdefender is the best free antivirus period. Plus now they have added a few new tools to the free version as well making it even better at protecting your system.
@@10percent4DaBigGuyI have an old laptop, Kaspersky runs just fine, Bitdefender made it unusable. I have 16GB of ram in it btw. it's way too resource intensive. whether it is good at doing it's job or not, its unusable.
@@kotykd6212 i think every computer needs at least 64GB of ram in 2024.... i personally have 128 in my system and in 2014 i made sure my PC had 32GB i will be upgrading my system next when i can build a PC with at least 1024GB - 2048GB of ram and a CPU with atleast 512-1024 cores around 6.5-9 Ghz and GPU at least 512-1024GB vram i believe this will be around 2035 specs i want everything to be in TB memory bus in my next build.... sadly the hardware is not there yet.... the advancements in tech are honetly slow.... back in around 1999 i thought we would have PB drives by now and not TB drives.... and clock speeds have never been able to keep up with advancements the day they reached the thermal wall around the year 2001... that is the day advancements in tech went to around 10% of what they previously were... but 16GB is honestly very little a single DIMM in my PC is double that....
Thanks for the video. I was just trying to figure out if I should get the Kaspersky premium since my license was coming to an end and was hoping that maybe there would be other security software that it was better but it looks like kaspersky still has it so I went ahead and renewed my license
Very interesting. Do you have the opportunity to test SentinelOne again? It's been 4 years since the last test. I would be interested to know how SentinelOne behaves against 2k viruses.
Looking for a replacement for the recently banned Kaspersky. The UltraAV handoff by Kaspersky was a disaster on my machine so I uninstalled it and everything is working fine again.
Bitdefender insists to show notifications even with gaming profile activated. If it disrupts me so much I won't use it no matter how accurate its detection is.
Windows Game Mode puts any notifications on hold for me, so no issue there. Big question though is why are you getting so many notifications from Bitdefender? Sounds like you have some shady stuff happening on your computer.
Hi. Do you recommend any windows debloaters and how do we use them without breaking windows when lowering the processes down to 50's or lower. example chris titus (advanced) or winpilot. Thanks in advance.
Always love to see Kaspersky vs Bitdefender
are you a jew?
why?
@@wisniewskijan9740 these are Top of market CyberSecurity solution
What kind of empty headed comment is this?
Great video and testing! I prefer Kaspersky because it seems a lot less intrusive throwing a lot less false positives which makes more of a pleasant user experience. Plus Kaspersky's pricing is simply unmatched for what it offers in my opinion.
You know how sometimes vendors tell you to "disable AV"? I don't recall ever having to do that with KAV...
In last tests. Bitdefender has better protection at all. Look at the av-comparatives
@@LexyyWhoMost comparatives are biased now against Russian Origin Products.
@@rounakr94This site is so popular (so and TPSC recommended this site at his video.
But idk, maybe they do maybe not.
But if you look other tests at the site Kaspersky winned at all (even in ukraine war) but in last test Bitdefender winned.
@@LexyyWho Kaspersky ''Product of the Year 2023'' (av-comparatives)
I was a long time Norton customer and fan but abandoned it 3 years ago when they had stopped sales via 3rd party in my region and moved to Kaspersky. Never looked back.
Norton has always felt like malware disguised as virus protection to me lol
@@squaidinkarts That's because it probably is
LOL I've known Norton everything to be bloatware for longer than that...
This is a scam page directing folks to Russian malware. The notion a security tool out of Russia doesn't except Russian malware is insane. Any time FSB makes a call, they have to make exceptions or they get thrown out the window like everyone else. Also, why support Russia as it commits genocide??
yes because a mascow anti virus is not dangerous...... pretty sure putin would never store info....@@squaidinkarts
Now we need the ultimate battle of the top 3 free software comparison side by side: ;)
Kaspersky Free
Bitdefender Free
Windows Defender
why windows Defender? can be Norton
@@yoshirocalizayaortega7312 It needs to be Windows Defender, so I can link the video again to people calling antivirus software snake oil.
@@yoshirocalizayaortega7312 Because @gamercontruct said free software comparison!
@@relegendize Try and read the post you are replying to, @gamercontruct said free software comparison!
Defender works perfectly fine. Combine with open dns, ublock origin and strong unique passwords and air gapped backups, you are good. Unless you store other peoples sensitive data, then you need proper advice.
My Kaspersky subscription is expiring soon. Still worthy, so Imma extend it for another 2 years. Thanks, Leo for the comparison.
I member when mine was gonna expire and for some reason, renewal was Kind of expensive but it was much cheaper to buy it new again 😂
@@nadie4221 "it was much cheaper to buy it new again" - this was exactly the same with my Bitdefender renewal last year where buying it new was much cheaper than their renewal price. Customer loyalty means nothing these days (as if we didn't know). Same with house/car insurance etc. Stay savvy, don't blindly auto-renew.
Yikes! Kerspesky is sitting down July 2024 in uSA. Unknown you can get your money bsck
@@DrTarrandProfessorFether im from mexico so that doesnt bother me
@@DrTarrandProfessorFether No you cannot get your money back. Because American government sucks
This is the bake off I have been waiting for. Thank you so much Leo for taking the time to put this together. We appreciate all that you do.
We had been waiting for this!
How could we have been waiting for this when he just did a kaspersky vs 2000 malware video 2 months ago. What we are waiting for is for people to quit testing kaspersky every other week and give other AV and malware tools a chance.
Kaspersky is a awesome low resource heavy antivirus which is very very good so why quit a antivirus that's reliable have very good protection and low impact on pc
We had been waiting for the final confrontation with Bitdefender. @@billyguthrie3176
Yes, you right, I was wating for this test. 👍
@@billyguthrie3176 well he said we had been waiting for this, so maybe he meant we had been waiting, up until he did a kaspersky vs 2000 malware video 2 months ago
Thank you so much, our honest support may walk side by side with you till you reach the first million subscribers
Yes! The ultimate championship
Good video, funny , informative and let's not forget the very clear explanation
about the detections and the differences between the two
Thanks for doing the tests and the results. It increased my confidence in my choice of Bitdefender. Like you mentioned they are both good at their intended purpose.
Your work is exemplary, Leo. Your work is critically important to me; I can think about such testing but I could NEVER to it. Now, I feel informed; thanks!
The hard part is collecting the samples (and maybe the payment too, if there are no free trials), the rest is... not so hard.
I subscribed to you a long time ago when you had only a few thousand subscribers. I'm glad that your hard work is paying off.
Both Kaspersky and Bitdefender have strong anti-malware capabilities, but their methods are slightly different. Kaspersky provides a System Watcher component that monitors system activity and uses various databases and algorithms to detect and block suspicious activity, effectively protecting against zero-day threats and ransomware. On the other hand, Bitdefender excels at real-time protection and has a slightly better result in detecting and eliminating 2,000 types of malware during testing.
Big difference I see at first test is, that Bitdefender tells you afterwards "Everything is fine", while Kasperky tells you, that your system is at risk.
Great as usual. Surprised to see that both Kaspersky and BitDefender scores are almost matching which means BitDefender improved a lot. But again I would prefer Kaspersky anytime because its less costly and consumes much less resources than BitDefender. Also any type of scan can be customized in Kaspersky which seems to be somewhat restricted in BitDefender. Anyway, either of the two are great products.
As a American i feel more comfortable having a russian company monitor my internet than a American company. Going to go with no anti virus after kaspersky is banned.
Remember that McAfee and Norton are from the U.S.A
@@VSN-wb2ly yeah i know im looking for a non us comapany. any suggestions?
You’re a nut bar.
@@pablovonduckbill7802 Sophos Security is from UK, if i’m not mistaken. Worked as an IT-assistant for a big private equity company in Düsseldorf (Germany) until 2022. They praised it.
Would love to hear some expert view on Sophos.
Edit: the Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf uses Sophos too (at least they did 2018, when i worked there last as IT assistent)
@@pablovonduckbill7802 ESET
Compare free versions of the antiviruses
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This is a scam page directing folks to Russian malware. The notion a security tool out of Russia doesn't except Russian malware is insane. Any time FSB makes a call, they have to make exceptions or they get thrown out the window like everyone else. Also, why support Russia as it commits genocide? ??
😂😂😂😂
Great testing.
I love this competition between kaspersky(my fav) and bitdefender
I love the classical music piece too! Great choice.
kaspersky won the AV of the year 23 🎉🎉
However bitdefender got as many points as kaspersky.
I don't know why. Bitdefender got the better protection in this year and also in this test. Kaspersky is just better configurable. But both are running well on Windows. I can't decide between Kaspersky & Bitdefender. I think I need two systems 😅
@@kennyzschinsch7120 Trying to whitelist apps and their dependencies in bitdefender is an absolute fucking nightmare!!. Its easy in kaspersky, generally kaspersky is much easier to use.
I got a potato running laptop tried both & it seems kaspersky is less heavy than bitdefender.
@hasanayham1063 BD is far from Finished. You're fanboying for fucking Anti-Virus software.
I always recommended BD or Kaspersky. Both products are great.
rip Kaspersky, you will be missed.
You one of the few knowing this. I liked it too but do not trust Russian companies.
I'm using Kaspersky, but just because it's very light on system resources .. there are only two background processes running in the background while Bitdefender has 8 or 9 of them, eating up your CPU and RAM.
it's better than bitdefender anyway
@@elduderino7767 - Fully agree!
@@elduderino7767 KASPERSKY OVERRATED PRODUCT
bitdefender really takes up no ram at all like 1GB max....
your PC have 4GB of ram?
It takes around 700-1GB with 0% CPU usage, I wouldn't call that intensive considering most new CPU's have many cores and notably weaker cores for this task
when both anti virus are alike it would be cool to monitor resource usage (ram,cpu,ssd,intenet) and compare it during idle and scan process
i've switched from kaspersky to bitdefender for 2 years...both works fine...both gives me vpn and password manager...
Used BD then switched to Kaspersky early last year due to price plus Kaspersky included VPN and password manager for free
How did you activate the unlimited VPN in the Plus version of Kaspersky? I own it (Total Security to Kaspersky Plus) and I don't have the unlimited VPN
why do you even pay for these AV softwares?
i just use the free ver of bitdefender....
Download it and log in with your ID. @@LovelyKittenMusic
Great content. To the point w/o wasting everyones time! TY keep up the great work
Really nice how you compare the two side by side.
These videos are so helpful! Thank you for sharing. Can you test Sophos too please?
Never saw a comparison between the two. Was interesting to see because I use Kaspersky and have used Bitdefender a few years ago. All in all, I think you're safe with either program, thank you, for sharing!
Thank you so much for the comparison.
That's what I was lookin' for!
Ty for the information
Bitdefender and kaspersky both are great. But the problem with bitdefender is, they too much eating RAM or CPU and sometime, the web blocking dosen't always work. But to be honest, both product are great
Used Kaspersky for many years. Can't take a chance that Russia will use Kaspersky for it's own ends.
Lol i use it for that reason, i trust the us government much less than Russia.
I agree, it's absolute shit now. Can't trust anything in the hands of a terrorist
I like your new software suggestions! Just wanted to share Immersive Translate with you. It’s been essential for accessing international software resources.
bitdefender still earning its place ; glad to see it
also glad to see kaspersky has gotten a lot better in recent years
great video dude =]
We've been using it since 2008, not a single infection since then... back then, I was also a not very vigilant child, known to download malware on a weekly basis 😂
Both are great, I have BD now and feel like it is more "clunky" and resource heavy. But can't go wrong either way
This sucks that Kaspersky is being banned in the US, I’ve used it for years and loved it. Now I’m thinking about switching to Bitdefender
How about cpu and memory usage? How about an active infection as opposed to just files materializing on the file system
This is nice! I've been a Bitdefender user for years with my family and PCs. I couldn't trust Kaspersky before as they had a lot of product upgrade spam. It just irritated me. Nice to know their performance is up!
both antivirus are too good
around 2 year ago, i tried bitdefender ,but due to unavoidable notification by bitdefender i have to shift to Kaspersky, but just after few months later when people complaint about this, bitdefender allowed users to stop notifications
I'll always stick with Kaspersky. They're 1 of the best antivirus software. No doubt Bitdefender is great, but I still rate Kaspersky the best. They never miss anything, so you're completely safe
With today's technology, it doesn't matter much. Even the free AV programs are more or less at par with the expensive ones. To me, the issue is how quickly an AV company reacts to a new threat.
Very very helpful vid. Thank you!
Finally, 2024 Kaspersky live test, thanks leo
FINALLY BITDEFENDER. DO MORE!!
There was a time when I was using Kaspersky. Great stuff. Never had a problem. But now I'm perfectly fine with Windows Defender.
to many false positives with windows defender and they delete half of your programs on you.....
keygens or what ever windows defender will delete off your system
No wonder KS often comes with fewer false positives. Its also impressive that KS uses less resources than BD and even WD itself.
I use Kaspersky and find it works very well. I would trust Russian Kaspersky more than U.S software.
Please review UltraAV and compare it to Kaspersky or Bitdefender.
Good test, thnx Leo!
Glad to see you here
@@Gateastrologykc Jip always watch his videos 🙂
@@jitechsolutions very close results like in your tests
@@Gateastrologykc Jip true as it always are with these 2 products
Oi hello JiTech,big fan of ya keep up the good work😊
Of the two, Kaspersky is lighter on resources. However, at least on my machine, it would cause Windows Updates to crash every once in a while. Although you can't go wrong with either product.
That's... never happened to me...? How would Kaspersky even be running if updates are being installed?
i still use Bitdefender but I run my browser in Sandboxie...at the end of the day I delete the sandbox. That way there is nothing left on my PC. Not even cookies.
As always, these videos are never disappointing.
On another note, how do you collect these samples from the internet? Is there software, or is it manual work??
Hey Leo thank you very much this is great comparison between two great security applications I hope you can make another antivirus tier list for 2024
Great test 👍. Thank you
I love Kaspersky but boy it's expensive, the 3 year plan bitdefender is cheaper than 1 year plan Kaspersky.
And the difference is really huge, for 3 years Kaspersky I need to pay for 5 times the price than bitdefender with the same period of time
Super comparison! Can we see a comparison between Sophos enterprise and Bit defender enterprise? I use for various companies the Sophos security suite and I must say it's rock solid, especially it's tamper protection! Happy to provide a license for a Sophos enterprise endpoint to test
If I can get a good renewal deal, I'll still with BD. Set & forget, no alerts except when a restart is needed.
Uh you don't want that, imagine having your child in a playground surrounded by predators, but telling nothing because they're all getting caught before entering it...
Avast vs 2000 malware
That would be 2001 malware vs your computer
Love your conent bro, really good information.
Why was the Adobe Reader shortcut on the desktop? Did something get through and nothing picked it up on a second scan?
Adobe Reader is legitimate software by Adobe, why would anything detect it?
It was likely bundled in some installer/adware, however Adobe Reader itself is not malicious and was allowed to install, and anything else that may have tried to be installed was blocked.
@@Hecklezz true it is legitimate software but then why did one antivirus allow it and the other one didn't? Kaspersky must have noticed something was wrong and prevented the install.
@@gremory0 Probably a fake Adobe Reader installer. It legitimately installs Reader but trojans another software inside. BitDefender probably blocked the Trojan payload but let Adobe Reader install just fine.
I once got a virus because I stupidly downloaded a Firefox update from a non-firefox website without thinking over a decade ago. Took a few hours to clean up the damage caused by that.
It is a tough call, because they are both excellent programs. Personally, I don't mind false positives. Kaspersky has a great user interface that you can tweak quite a lot. If I have to have a Microsoft-based tool , and a anti-malware program starts "clutching at its pearls", I will just run it in a sandbox in a host M$ OS running under a Linux hypervisor, and see what goes on with it.
Web apps are more dangerous generically because they can crack your browser on whatever the box is, and try to escalate control from there. So if you are going to sandbox anything, make it your browser, IMHO.
I like the DOM idea in QUBES OS. The hypervisor OS has no internet connection, and you can create host OSes [of any flavour] from templates, and you interact with the world from the guest OS's. If you get into trouble with one, just delete it. It can always be respawned afresh from your templates.
You update DOM from the most hardened guest OS, and never use that virtual machine for anything else. You can use a different secure OS for sensitive info [like internet banking or whatever], and another OS as your "daily driver". It is the best compromise I have seen that gives your hardened OS capability and yet the convenience of moderate security for normal tasks.
As a bitdefender user for multiple years and not any crudware that i know of in my pc they have a customer for life. Not that resource intensive either. Looking to add the VPN asap.
Thank you for your content.
Eu prefiro o Kaspersky porque é possível ajustar algumas configurações, Bitdefender é mais automático e usa mais memória RAM
I run Bit Defender for the fam and have been very happy with them. I had a scare from a hacked NAS (not mine, I just had access to it) a few years ago that made me tighten down everything tighter than a bull's asshole. Sad that you need so much protection these days.
Bitdefender failed me with a very sneaky RAT that was a persistent threat. The malware was able to disable Bitdefender immediately (I'm assuming through remote commands) and then do whatever it needed to to Windows to shield it from view. Then the app started back up again and made no peep about the malware. I abandoned Bitdefender after that. I'm now using Kaspersky with VPN. Hoping this one does better but I'm not holding my breath.
🤔 You left me thinking the approach of the products... I have Kaspersky installed for my parents that are not very techie... I think they would scare if something sort of executes... I will reflect on that. Thank you!
Great video. But instead of only malware tests can you also look into the advanced threat defenses of these antivirus since they they pose quite a major issue. For malware tests antivirus are getting better at detecting them
Bitdefender looks pretty good here! Might use them to run my firewall for my Netgear home router. Does anyone think that will get in the way of running Sophos on my home systems though?
Wouldn't you have to make your PC the router then...?
Kaspersky is the all time winner
stop fanboy
Now do this with free versions! (and include Win Defender) 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Why those are the only good ones AV having high detection rate? since years ago i mean....
love the channel. keep it up
Both are known for their behavioral engines . Can we test these two ?
Thank you
turn off signature detections. do advance threat defense test
I have better idea. Uninstall both AV and run the malwares and see which one is better
@@youravghuman5231 you should change your name to “yourbelowavghuman”
@@youravghuman5231Or instead of the malware just type the destruction command 😂
@@youravghuman5231 Below average human should be your new name. Completely missed the premise of what I was saying
was waiting for this one. thanks!
I'd love to see Microsoft Defender for endpoint (MDE) put through the test!
Wow can't believe enigma apps are malware thanks for showing that as a malware sample
I use ESET Essential and Kaspersky Premium (subscribed to both).
Do not run multiple AVs on one pc at the same time. Choose either since both are good.
I love Kaspersky
Thanks a lot for that awesome video
could you make a video about the top 3 or 5 free Antivirus ?
Could you please run this test with the free versions and just post a comment?
Looks like you have the blank VM set to go. I use free Kaspersky.
A "blank VM set to go" is really easy, just have a fresh install snapshot lying around and clone the VM.
@@erikkonstas I meant it looked like he'd set up a snapshot ready to run the test, just without AV software which could be cloned to test free versions with minimal effort.
Probably still can't be fagged though... YTers...
Bitdefender is the best free antivirus period. Plus now they have added a few new tools to the free version as well
making it even better at protecting your system.
Witch tools?
Nope it ruins game performance
@@portman8909 you must not have much ram in your PC....
@@10percent4DaBigGuyI have an old laptop, Kaspersky runs just fine, Bitdefender made it unusable. I have 16GB of ram in it btw. it's way too resource intensive. whether it is good at doing it's job or not, its unusable.
@@kotykd6212 i think every computer needs at least 64GB of ram in 2024....
i personally have 128 in my system and in 2014 i made sure my PC had 32GB
i will be upgrading my system next when i can build a PC with at least 1024GB - 2048GB of ram
and a CPU with atleast 512-1024 cores around 6.5-9 Ghz
and GPU at least 512-1024GB vram
i believe this will be around 2035 specs
i want everything to be in TB memory bus in my next build.... sadly the hardware is not there yet.... the advancements in tech are honetly slow.... back in around 1999 i thought we would have PB drives by now and not TB drives.... and clock speeds have never been able to keep up with advancements the day they reached the thermal wall around the year 2001... that is the day advancements in tech went to around 10% of what they previously were...
but 16GB is honestly very little a single DIMM in my PC is double that....
Thank you for comparing these industry standard security products. Can you please compare avast and avira free av simultaneously next time. Thank you
Thanks!
Do these both blow Norton out of the water? Excuse my ignorance.
Awesome❤❤❤❤
Thanks for the video. I was just trying to figure out if I should get the Kaspersky premium since my license was coming to an end and was hoping that maybe there would be other security software that it was better but it looks like kaspersky still has it so I went ahead and renewed my license
Very interesting.
Do you have the opportunity to test SentinelOne again?
It's been 4 years since the last test. I would be interested to know how SentinelOne behaves against 2k viruses.
Can I get your antivirus test tool? I want to test a antivirus called V3, but I can't find any tools that can test antiviruses.
Looking for a replacement for the recently banned Kaspersky. The UltraAV handoff by Kaspersky was a disaster on my machine so I uninstalled it and everything is working fine again.
fr im considering Bitdefender
Same@@sunwukong993
Who won the match? I still can't understand the enigma results 😂
Let's see average RAM utilization when running outside a testing scenario.
The Kaspersky Business Channel
Bitdefender insists to show notifications even with gaming profile activated. If it disrupts me so much I won't use it no matter how accurate its detection is.
Windows Game Mode puts any notifications on hold for me, so no issue there. Big question though is why are you getting so many notifications from Bitdefender? Sounds like you have some shady stuff happening on your computer.
Hi. Do you recommend any windows debloaters and how do we use them without breaking windows when lowering the processes down to 50's or lower. example chris titus (advanced) or winpilot. Thanks in advance.