BitDefender recently announced the release of the free BitDefender Security Scan. It is designed to provide information needed to keep Windows machines running safely and smoothly, in a convenient, speedy way, and includes a registry cleaner.
BitDefender Security Scanner and Registry Cleaner
The freeware gives you a detailed report on the status of any security threats and registry errors. It uses BitDefender Quickscan, which takes full advantage of “in-the-cloud” technology to detect active malware in less than a minute, taking just a fraction of the system resources needed by a regular virus scan.
Says Bogdan Dumitru, BitDefender Chief Technology Officer:
“We developed BitDefender Security Scan knowing that people want the minimum of hassle in staying safe online and keeping their PC running smoothly.
Features of QuickScan include:
- AV QuickScan – scans your PC for running viruses, spyware and other online threats – usually in less than a minute!
- Registry Tuning – scans your PC for invalid registry entries that can cause slow downs, freezes or crashes.
- Update watcher – checks for Windows updates which have not been applied yet.
- Security status – checks for the existence and status of security software on your system.
- Scheduled Scanning – sets up recurring scans to ensure your system is safe. QuickScan will automatically scan your PC on startup.
- Antivirus Spot Check – on demand, instantly scans a suspicious file (such as something you’ve just downloaded) for viruses.
I personally did run the tool on my Windows 7 with default firewall running and NOD 32 antivirus. I do not find the tool to be of much use as your Security Center already warns you about such things. It might however be good as a second malware scanner since it uses the latest AV definations from the cloud. Also good if you, need a basic and a safe registry cleaner.
UPDATE: 22nd May 2011. A word of caution before you download the tool. Please read the comments below first.
- Tags: Freeware
9 Comments
Another scareware. I’m so upset. Wasted my time.
Scareware? It is from BitDefender!
There are a lot of applications that just provide a UI for basic and advanced Windows 7 settings. People need to learn their operating system and not rely on third party software so much.
I agree with Fish. This app is NOT free, and is just a scareware. It should be BANNED from this site.
“Also good if you, need a basic and a safe registry cleaner.”
From what I’ve been learning in the past there isn’t any such thing as a safe registry cleaner.
Definitely ‘Scareware’. It didn’t acknowledge my firewall or anti-virus. If you don’t have Bitdefender installed, it tells you you’re unprotected. BS!
Hi, Sorry for the delay in replying – I was travelling.
I had checked the tool with my default Windows 7 firewall and NOD32 antivirus, and the results are what you see in the screen shot above in the post.
Anyway thanks to all your inputs, I am adding a word of caution in the post.
As has been previously said this is nothing but scare-ware.
After downloading and running I was told that my Comodo firewall was NOT running. IT IS!
I was told that there were two (2) dll errors related to Firefox and Thunderbird.Missing dll’s – —\plugins\NPSWF32.dll
No action taken regarding these “errors” as both programs are working perfectly without these dll’s
Click repair and taken to page on internet that offers bit-defender download\purchase.
Stay away from it as this is nothing but an underhand (sleekit – a good Scots word that describes underhand and devious actions). Bit defender must be getting desperate to resort to this type of action.
ErnieK
McAfee maded a similar tool named “McAfee Security Scan Plus” that is nothing more than a way to say “you need to buy our product tobe safe”. Bitdefender is following the same path, scare you to force a sell.