BitDefender vs. Steam

[Thyrus]

Hey guys. As you might know I bought a new laptop. I downloaded steam and a trial version of Bitdefender. But it seems that BD causes all the hl2.exe games to crash after a short time playing and sometimes those games don`t even start. The only thing I get is the preparing to start yxz and after a short while this screen disapears and nothng happens. Taskmanager says that the game is running but it isn`t

I`m now thinking about changing to another internet security programm but I don`t want to use Kaspersky since I had a lot of problems with it in the past and also the latest one seems to be crap (from the things I read on different forums)

can anyone help me there?

[cephalopod]

Definitely a problem with BitDefender, as I see there's issues between it an Steam with people over the net. Only even relatively useful advice I can think of is get a better/different AV... Avast, anyone? XD

[Enigm@]

Disregard BD, use Steam and acquire TF2 for free.

[Sparkey98]

Acquire new PC







Destroy it instantly

[freeziez]

Steam.

[Thyrus]

So nobody has a good answer to this?

[Jack Daniels]

Steam is still twitchy after all these years? Damn, Steam used to piss me off back in the day when I played CS.  I am baffled they haven't made it more stable.

I'm still a Kaspersky fan myself.  But Norton 360 has come a long way and runs pretty decent.  If you strive for free software... Avast isn't too bad (like Craaig suggested)  I had it on one of my computers for about 2 years, but then a virus squeaked by and I wasn't too impressed.  But, can't really beat it when it is free.

[Thyrus]

well I guess it`s more a problem with Bitdefender I guess. I`m now using Avira and Steam works without problems. Havn`t tried  Avast yet. But I have a grudge against Kaspersky. it used to block everything on my old laptop. I wasn`t even able to watch videos on youtube.

[123savethewhales]

I don't use internet security.  I turn off all my firewalls and only have avast for weekly scans.  I think router/script block is enough to block off most things that I didn't stupidly download/install myself, and I don't expect a program to save me from those.

But then again, I don't use Steam either.  The concept of automated downloads bothers me to no end.