Bitdefender Total Security – 5 Devices | 1 year Subscription | PC/Mac | Activation Code by email

Best on the market
I renew this subscription every year. Love that I get 5 device coverage. Have used this for years and they keep.me safe

Price keeps going up!
I originally bought Bitdefender in 2020 for 42.40, 2021 -27.29, 2022 – 21.76, 2023 -$20.69 – this time it was 48.98, although I tried to get it through their purveyor, 2checkout for a few bucks more, my bank rejected the charge and I just bought it from Amazon.In any case, perhaps because of the times, or because my computers are old; I find the program very intrusive. I’m not saying that they are not fighting many attacks. Also, I do have Express VPN and the Bitdefender program seems to have a real issue with it on one of my computers. It seems to only work well when Express VPN is off. I know that Bitdefender comes with a VPN but I have not turned it on because I had Express. To get the equivalent of Express VPN through Bitdefender, I think you have to pay more per month or get a special subscription.There are times when my computer just gets foggy – as if they are installing a program and sometimes a pop up says they are. Often, there is a msg. telling me I must turn off and restart my computer for a new protection being installed and if I can’t do it now, it asks in how many hours.These issues are mostly with my latest purchase. I understand that Bitdefender gets great reviews. I also understand that Amazon no longer seems to be underpricing the market for most items. I feel confident though that I have purchased a serious virus protection program for my computers. Unfortunately, now I must turn my computer off – restart needed.

Don’t trust this garbage solution!
I’ve used McAfee, Symantec and Kaspersky, all for years and I’ve even installed these suites for customers as well. This, by far, is the worst of all antivirus suites I have ever used. Never have I ever been able to so easily bypass security software. Then there’s the scam that they are selling called “parental control.” It doesn’t control anything. It doesn’t report half of what the kids are doing on their computers. Sometimes it doesn’t detect anything at all! The online dashboard doesn’t allow you to drill into their web activity–you only get specific categories and a top few list of web sites visited. If the kid visited an adult site once in the last seven days and then went to their various school sites 1000 times that week–you’d never see the adult site they visited because there is no way to drill into the details of what is presented on the dashboard. The number of false positives is irritating and BitDefender assumes every raw IP you’re visiting is a bad actor. So when I visit a customer site with my laptop and type in an IP address, I need to enter the antivirus password to bypass that warning every single time I do that. The lack of configurability is also irritating. BD only allows you to enable or disable whole categories of functionality. Then there’s adding web site exceptions to the control: you can only add one at a time, instead of cutting and pasting a LIST of sites in. Our school system publishes a list of sites to white list that is more than 300 entries long (we are the 4th largest district in the country) and I have to type them in one at a time for EVERY user? Is BD kidding me!?! Parental Control is the same thing, except it is all or nothing: either block ALL the kid’s activity or don’t block at all. The category controls in parental control are also garbage. This software feels like someone is at some startup selling incomplete garbage to us, while we experience the irritations while paying them to build their software. Then they pay good lip service on their support boards and here with the standard “Oh hey, we’d like to talk about your difficulties please contact us here.” But when you contact them “there,” you just end up getting told by them that nothing else can be done because that is all they CAN do. So, yeah, I’m done. Going back to one of the more mature offerings when this subscription expires.