Even with active scanning and the firewall service turned off, it still identifies and quarantines the payload. And this is with Backtrack running in a virtual machine.

No matter how many times I encode or pack a malicious payload with Metasploit, Bitdefender catches and blocks it.

I have to uninstall (not turn off!) Bitdefender from these machines when I play with Backtrack 5 and the Metasploit Framework. I use Bitdefender on a couple dual purpose machines that are also used for security research. The drive was scanned with 2012 and the files were not detected.Īctually, Bitdefender anti-virus is the bane of my security research existence. In testing, 2013 correctly detected some compressed exploit files from a security conference that were in a huge zipped compilation. I will say though that the 2013 release seems just as robust against malware and phishing attempts, and better in some circumstances. This year I want to spend more time covering some of the new and updated features. Even PC Mag gave Bitdefender’s Antivirus Plus 2013 its Editor’s Choice Award. We covered the 2012 version and it received top marks.

Okay, I am not going to spend a lot of time covering the antivirus engine this year. Take one of the best anti-virus products out there and integrate a ton of client and online security add-ins and what do you have? Bitdefender Total Security 2013!Īgain this year, Bitdefender has provided Cyberarms a review copy of its latest Total Security product for us to put through the ringer, and again it did not disappoint.

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