So I love Surfshark VPN and I’m looking at replacing Bitdefender with Surfshark One that includes the new antivirus (I’m on Mac). What do you guys think about it? It seems pretty new still and I don’t know if it’s ready to replace a full fledged antivirus like Bitdefender yet. I’ve seen some reviews suggesting to wait a bit but at the same time, they are a security company with a good track record and should update it pretty fast right?
Thoughts?
I would be inclined to stick with a tried and trusted AV product
Surfsharks anti virus is just Avira SDK.
you can read up on it.
I recommend stay with Bitdefender and personally I would not choose Surfshark as my trusted Antivirus.
Surfshark should focus on VPN side not on AV products, this is the main reason some people really did not like it and might not renew their subscriptions with Surfshark. TBH, it is very hard to compete with popular and well reputed AV products out there in the market when they have ton amount of resources and known for many years.
I am a happy customer of Bitdefender from past 8 years without any issues.
There’s no way I would trust my data to a new AV product that hasn’t been tested by av-test.org or av-comparatives.org.
I also wouldn’t trust their AV due to the problems I’ve had with their VPN.
i know im late but i got surfshark one a while ago and the antivirus hasnt worked until multiple months later… upon a new update where it started working it overtook windows antivirus and then flagged a bunch of random stuff in my computer as a virus (things like videogames, my other anitvirus) and auto quarantined them and made a lot of random softwares in my pc stop working. upon “restoring” the quarantined files it put them back in the wrong spot so they still wouldnt work and i had to uninstall and reinstall a bunch of things. i dont think i’ll be using it again
You don’t need any anti virus beyond windows defender
Question: Does the Surfshark Antivirus “real time protection” run in the background if Surfshark is closed. Thanks in advance.
Since I made this post, Surfshark has been tested by AV-Test Institute and got a pretty low score. It was also tested twice at different times by PCMag and showed it has improved a lot in a short time and is now good a certain things but still scored pretty low in some areas.
I trust them to get better but since I have quite a bit of time left on my Bitdefender sub because of a special offer I got, I decided to wait until my sub ends to decide if I want to switch. I’ll check out the most recent tests then!
What does that mean? It’s just using the same system as the Avira antivirus wrapped up in Surfshark UI?
Do you let BitDefender auto-renew you every year?
Surfsharks anti virus is just Avira SDK.
I didn’t have any problems with the VPN, what kind of problems did you have?
have you reached about it to the support? If you’re paying for it you should be able to demand having a working one
pretty much but i bet this comment gets removed for rule 1 , 9 , or 10 or something.
Pretty much , actually with less features.
I have killswitch enabled, but the VPN periodically drops and my IP gets exposed.