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Bit Defender Antivirus Review


Bit Defender Antivirus Review
In this article we would review one of the best and most comprehensive antivirus solution available in the market. Bit defender has a reputation of giving its users the rock solid and most trustable protection. We would see how valid this claim is, we would also take a look at the innovative features of bit defender antivirus and see what is the reason behind the success story of bit defender antivirus.
Bit defender antivirus was developed by SOFTWIN, which is a software company based in Bucharest, Romania. First version of Bit defender was released in 2001 and currently 13 versions have been developed and released. The latest version of Bit defender antivirus is Bit Defender 2011. Bit defender is one of the most reliable and efficient antivirus software. It can protect you from viruses, Trojans, worms, malicious programs, spyware, rootkit, adware, keyloggers, or any other kind of harmful program. The latest version of Bit defender antivirus is bit defender 2011. If you are looking for trustable and concrete protection in an affordable price, bit defender can be your best choice. It not only protects your computer from all the known and unknown viruses, it also tunes up your computer’s performance and keeps it secure, safe and updated. With its multi tier protection mechanism it can protect you from all sides while you are online. Bit defender is also a lot flexible than other traditional antivirus solutions. Whether you are a professional having comprehensive knowledge about computers and want to control and set everything manually or you are an average users who wants a set-and-forget security solution, bit defender serves you in the best and safest possible ways. The protection arsenal and technologies of Bit defender antivirus are always updates to protect you against the changing and dynamic threats that you face on the internet. Most antivirus users complain about the slowing down of their computer after they install an antivirus program, Bit defender has absolutely no effect on the performance of your computer, actually its tune up feature makes your computer work in a much better and synchronized way.
To install bit defender antivirus you can go to bit defender website, from there you have to launch the bit defender download manager. The download manager downloads an installation file to your computer and initiates the installation process. It takes only three clicks to complete that process, about 3 minutes on an average computer( Dual core processor with 2 GB RAM). After the completion of this process a reboot is needed. After the reboot another process is automatically initiated. Here bit defender antivirus gives you three configuration options that are:
·        Typical
·        Gamer
·        Custom
The typical configuration is for average users and sets everything to default, the gamer mode is for persons who are using their computer for games and the last option, custom is for advance users, here you can select everything according to your needs. After that the setup asks you to specify whether you are about to use bit defender antivirus in a laptop or a PC. Bit defender has separate settings and configurations for a laptop and PC. Finally in the last step it asks you to select your type, three options are available:
·        Novice
·        Intermediate
·        Expert
This part helps bit defender antivirus to decide how the antivirus program will handle decisions and which user interface type would be shown to the user. In the Novice mode the antivirus program takes the control and makes most of the decision on its own. In the Expert mode the user has maximum control and he can control the way in which antivirus program would work. The intermediate mode is the combination of Novice and Expert, here the typical decision are forwarded to user while some complex and advance decision are made by the antivirus program itself.
After the installation process is completed the bit defender asks you if you need a guided tour of applications or not. This process is very helpful to users to understand the functionality of this advance and comprehensive antivirus program. It also lets you check the latest and innovative features of bit defender antivirus program and get the most of this hugely popular and user friendly software.
Once installed, you can access the Bit defender antivirus dashboard. The dashboard is clean, easy to navigate and user friendly. On the upper left corner a conventional colored button shows you about the status of your computer. The green colored sign with a ‘your computer is protected’ shows that your computer is fully protected from all the threats and the antivirus software is updated and working. The yellow sign shows that there are some issues that need to be resolved like you need to scan your computer. The bit defender antivirus updates itself automatically after an hour or so and you do not need to accomplish this task manually. Three button on the top of dashboard are Security, Update now and My tools. They provide you easy and quick access to the best features of bit defender antivirus. Also in the My tools option there is a feature to customize bit defender antivirus according to your needs. You can select the gaming mode to suspend disk and processor intensive scan features or you can select the laptop mode to reduce power consumption.
Some of the best and most innovative features of bit defender antivirus are:
·        Search Advisor
·        Smart tips
·        Anti spyware
·        Anti rootkit
·        Bot protection
·        IM protection
·        Trojan Protection
·        Email Scanning
·        Anti phishing
·        Instant Message Encryption Service
 Bit defender antivirus is powered by SOFTWIN’s latest “B HAVE” technology which is based on behavioral analysis of programs in a virtual environment. It is also loaded with another latest and state of the art technology, the Active Virus Control. Active Virus Control continuously monitors the running processes in an operating system and allocates scores to them, upon reaching a specific threshold level the program is declared as harmful. It is different from heuristic technologies which monitor executable files when they are accessed or started. Active Virus control monitors everything that applications perform during their entire activity. This ability makes it a third level of defense.
The home version of bit defender was awarded PC Answers editor’s choice award in 2007. Bit defender also passed the Virus Bulletin’s test 14 times till June 2007. It also secured an advance certification from AV Comparatives. In another test conducted by AV Comparatives in 2009 bit defender received Advance+ certificate. PC MAG also conducted a test on Bit Defender 2010, it successfully detected 97 percent of all tests and completely blocked all of them. Bit defender is also the most economical of all the top antivirus which makes it one of the most trustable and efficient of all. Bit defender Antivirus costs you only 24.95 USD.




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