Bitedefender Total Security 2011 + Patch

 If you’re looking for a strong and easy security solution, Bitdefender Total Security 2011 is the TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award winner. It is a top-tier antivirus solution that offers superior protection and performance. Whether you’re an advanced user looking to control the whole process manually or an average user who simply wants a set-and-forget solution, this software can match your workflow. This antivirus software provides protection and peace of mind without taxing PC performance or paycheck.

Scope of Protection:

BitDefender Antivirus Plus protects you and your PC from a number of online threats, including social media threats, viruses, spyware and phishing scams. The software covers you from every angle, protecting you from threats on the internet, email and instant messaging. The program scans all web, IM and email traffic for malware. It can encrypt your IM chat conversations.

The product includes a cross-browser module that intercepts and scans web traffic before it can touch the browser. With SEO-poisoning and targeted attacks (particularly on popular search terms), even the top results in Google can be dangerous.

Effectiveness:

BitDefender Antivirus Plus is extremely effective, successfully blocking, removing, neutralizing and preventing malware infections. Third-party industry testers and reviewers (Virus Bulletin VB 100% Certification, ICSA Labs, Consumer Reports, West Coast Labs and AV-Comparatives) agree that BitDefender is one of the best.

Another benefit of the software is that you can ensure security without sacrificing speed. Smart Scan technology takes advantage of your PC processing power without being a burden. Depending on what other tasks you have running and what resources are available, BitDefender Antivirus Plus can adjust to optimize operations and maintain maximum speed.

Ease of Installation:

The software is available as boxed software or via online download. Both are easy to install and implement. Installation is quick and includes step-by-step instructions for initial setup. The process includes a pre-installation scan and doesn’t require a reboot before you’re up and running.

Ease of Use:

Ease of use begins with the streamlined installation process. The user interface is elegant and minimalistic. You can drag and drop modules to perform required actions directly from the main window.

The program uses a feature called Autopilot to make security-related decisions without prompting you for responses. There is nothing to configure, no alerts and no pop-ups. If you choose to make any manual changes to the security settings, Autopilot shuts itself off in the same way that your car's cruise control cancels itself if you tap the brakes.

In order to maintain the maximum performance that contributes to ease of use, a Scan Dispatcher feature discovers and takes advantage of any time slices available if system resource utilization drops below a certain threshold.

Features:

The best aspect of the software is its unmatched level of security. Active Virus Control is a feature that detects and demolishes stealth threats using proactive measures to monitor all application activity. It keeps an eye on file behaviors that look suspicious. One minor discrepancy won’t stop the file in question (thus avoiding false-positives), but if enough malware-like actions are detected, BitDefender Active Virus Control will lock it down. Malware has difficulty bypassing Active Virus Control because most of its functions work in kernel mode. The design of Active Virus Control ensures that it does not have an undue impact on system resources.

BitDefender also monitors privacy settings on Facebook and Twitter and blocks any threatening links that your friends send you from inside those social media networks. An Anti-fraud Filter detects fraudulent websites that are likely to scam and blocks you from fake banks, escrow scams and career/employment scams. Another way in which the product protects you from scammers is with a free credit monitoring service. The service is available within the United States and it will alert you if it discovers changes to your credit reports.

When, inevitably, threats such as rootkits breach all other defenses and burrow deeply into the operating system, you can reboot in Rescue mode, which places you into an environment where you can perform cleanup and restoration. If you pop in a CD or DVD or USB drive, the system detects the action and scans the media for threats.
One special tool worth mentioning is the secure gamer mode. Whether you’re playing a video game or in full-screen mode for a presentation or video, the gamer mode turns off any interruptions, but doesn’t sacrifice security. You can even set up a list of your games or other applications that will require gamer mode for a completely automatic solution. A similar feature is the laptop mode. This feature can also be set up to run automatically and will take special care to save resources when your laptop is unplugged.

Updates:

While the proactive heuristic detection and real-time prevention technology fight off new threats, timely virus definition updates are still an essential part of any antivirus software. BitDefender is set to perform updates automatically and run in the background without slowing down your computer. You don’t have to update manually (though you can if you want). And you don’t have to worry about updates slowing down your system. Furthermore, you don’t have to worry about updates causing problems or losing program files. If file damage occurs, BitDefender automatically repairs itself with the newest working update.

Help & Support:

This antivirus application is easy to use. But for those times when you need additional assistance or support with a specific problem, help is always close at hand. Live help is available 24/7 via phone, email or online live chat.

The dedicated help section includes articles, a knowledgebase, help files, troubleshooting and a variety of video tutorials. Best of all, the integrated help is completely searchable, helping you locate relevant answers and information.

Summary:

We’ve been impressed with BitDefender Antivirus for years. The publisher continues to innovate and improve year after year to maintain its premiere position. The product provides all the essential security without some of the gimmicky features we’ve seen elsewhere. It has a broad scope of protection.

New online threats continue to emerge and target different vulnerabilities. This antivirus software beats the threats from viruses, worms, Trojans and other malware. It protects you from the dangers that appear on social media networks. And it protects you from dangerous emails and malicious web sites. It is effective at what it does, as documented by the most prestigious third-party test labs. It is also easy to install and to use. The product contains thoughtful features that anticipate most of the situations in which you may find yourself. It behaves well if you are playing games or your laptop is unplugged. It pays attention to when you are using the computer heavily and doesn't allow consume system resources if they are already working hard. BitDefender will happily update itself without bothering you and it will perform its functions without bothering you, unless you want to be more involved in the security decisions. If something bad makes its way past BitDefender in such a way that the product can't clean it, a Rescue Mode reboot puts you in position to isolate and end the problem. You can always contact the publisher for help via online chat, telephone or email on any day and at any hour.

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