Share cost of anti-virus with friends

free avast and don't do weird shit

http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/01/disable-your-antivirus-software-except.html

For a second I thought you want to share a virus with your friends o.O

I can't answer your question so have a free bump. I hope someone clears this up for you. :)

I can't comment on this particular case, all I can do is recommend that you don't buy Bitdefender. While it scores well on antivirus tests, there are free alternatives that score equally well. In the latest AV-comparitives test Avira fared exactly as well as Bitdefender.

If it is anything like Webroot, i believe that you will have 1 account but either 5 product codes or one code that can be used 5 times.

I'm using Avast right now. It's free and I like it..

That's what I'm doing right now. Works perfectly fine, so don't worry! ^^ 😄

Unless you hate your friends, don't infect them with Bitdefender

This is a question better asked of the company. Assuming you are asking whether the license permits such sharing, I believe it is referring to the same location/family, so sharing it with friends would be a violation. If you are only asking about the logistics, it is probably easy to share with friends.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor am I advocating any course of action. :)

I use comodo internet security firewall and antivirus its free works well never had an issue in years works well so id suggest you try it

Funny how hardly anyone is actually answering your question but felt like they needed to weigh in with their wisdom anyway. (Actually it's not funny, but I digress).

Now I don't have Bitdefender Total Security, but I do have Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2017, and I am reasonably certain the account and the 5 device activation thing works the same way, so the answer is yes, you can "share" the license by activating on another device, however you will also have to share your account credentials to do this. One single account gets to manage all of the devices via a web interface, where local device activations can also be revoked remotely. Full granular control is retained on the respective local device, but it is even possible to override the "Autopilot" setting for local machines via web, for example. If you're comfortable with sharing this account with others, or they don't mind not having access and letting you manage for them, then there's nothing stopping you from doing it.

As for my impressions of Bitdefender Antivirus itself, I've found that I get almost zero false positives after adjusting the "Active Threat Control" setting to "permissive", anything higher will result in more false positives - but to be fair, the program warns of you this. It also currently has an issue with the Origin overlay, in that input will be locked in text fields if you bring it up in-game, but this may not be an issue for you. Either way, it can be avoided by temporarily deactivating "Active Threat Control". The UI, however, is a convoluted mess with settings all over the place and grouped illogically and often well hidden. It's a pain to navigate. The virus scanner seems to be resource efficient though and offers some additional features that may be of interest like a file shredder, file encryption and a password manager. I haven't used those though, so I can't say. I don't regret getting Bitdefender (I got it in the $15 tier in a Humble Bundle a few months ago), it's a pain to adjust but once you've got it set up it's smooth sailing for the most part. That said, it's also probably fair to say that you likely won't fare much worse with some other (free) alternative.

1. Yes, possible.
2. Use free antivirus better, it'll work just fine. Since you also have MBAM you shouldn't pay for AV. MSE/Defender would do just fine.

I'm doing that with a friend for over 10 years and we never had any problem with Kaspersky so far.