14 DAY TRIAL // With the release of Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition, the experts behind the project not only integrated new technologies, but they also considerably improved some existing ones.
In a recent interview I had with Alex Balan, senior product manager at Bitdefender, he revealed something interesting about the free product and how it scans a system without any impact on its resources.
“Normally, idle scanning means that when the application finds CPU resources, it steps in and scans the system. With Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition we not only took the concept to another level but we reinvented it all together,” he said.
This new concept begins at the point where the application is being installed and to make sure the regular operations performed by the user are not affected in any way, a calibration library steps in and measures the device's performance.
“Upon installation, a calibration library checks the CPU and hard disk performance in order to align the algorithms fine-tuning the impact in system performance with the overall system performance. Basically this ensures that whenever needed, Autoscan can run in background while heavy-duty tasks (gaming, for instance) are being performed in the foreground, without interfering with their performance,” Balan revealed.
He supplied a specific scenario where an application is started on two different computers that share the exact same resources.
By utilizing the time frames in which the application doesn't use up all the computational resources, a scanning thread manages to scan somewhere around two files, at the same time making sure that the program boots up just as fast as it would without the scan taking place.
This might not seem much, but the whole idea is that Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition goes into action only when it is completely certain that there is no impact on the user-performed tasks.
In other words, customers can rest assured that even if they don't feel that the antivirus is working, it actually is.