Additionally, the state-of-the-art antispam technology blocks all unwanted e-mails, and keeps your children safe by helping you monitor their activities with the complete yet subtle Parental Control. Besides unrivaled antimalware protection, Bitdefender Internet Security offers network protection by preventing unauthorized access to your private data with a two-way firewall. OneClick Optimizer frees up hard disk space.

It detects when you are working, playing, or watching movies, and prevents apps from slowing down your system. The software also puts only a light load on a PC with our 1GB test file taking only 23 percent longer when a scan was running in the background, than without.Bitdefender Internet Security builds on technology awarded by AV-TEST Best Windows Protection for three years straight, and Best Performance for system speed. BitDefender Antivirus Free Edition 2016: performanceĪ scan of our 50GB file basket completed in 1 hour 18 minutes and evaluated 286,373 files, giving it a scan rate of 61 files per second, but a second scan took just 11s and scanned 10,183 files, so after the initial checks, Bitdefender looks very efficient at subsequent scans. There’s a fair degree of justification for this trust, as it scores remarkably well when tested.

The flipside of this lack of control over settings is that it’s very easy just to load up and forget the software and trust that it will do its work and protect your PC. You can start a scan of specific files or folders from the BitDefender option in file menus, but again the progress of such a scan is shown only by the slowly changing border colour for the On Demand Scanner sub-panel which pops up. As far as we can see, there’s no way to instigate a full or quick scan you have to leave it to the automated protection features of the product to scan what it needs when it needs to.

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