Review by Ms. T

Bitdefender works really well on both vista and xp machines, and I really like the clean interface and the fact that it runs pretty low key in the background without excessive popups requiring user responses and it doesn’t drag down system resources. It installs flawlessly, and even will uninstall other antivirus software in case you forgot to do this yourself, which I thought was a really nice touch. My main criteria for security software is that it needs to run quietly in the background and not hog resources or cause other system issues - which McAfee Antivirus and Norton Internet Security can’t seem to figure out how to do. Before this I used to use Trend Micro PC-Cillen exclusively because it used very little system resource compared to the others, until their latest version which suddenly ballooned into huge resource hog - I don’t know if they’ve fixed that yet or not, I haven’t gone back to it since.n Bitdefender seems to have none of the problems that plague other security software, and I would switch to it exclusively, except on my main PC’s I am sticking with Windows Live Onecare, which does the best job of integrating seemlessly into the OS (naturally, since it is Microsoft).n As far as which is better at stopping viruses and malware, I can’t really say, since I am a low risk user and rarely am threatened with viruses and have never accidentally downloaded malware. I suspect Bitdefender would out perform Windows Live Onecare on this score, which is why I would definitely recommend it to any who doesn’t practice safe surfing.n All in all, it’s a very comprehensive security package at a great price and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to friends and family.