#BITDEFENDER TOTAL SECURITY 2019 REVIEW FULL#
#BITDEFENDER TOTAL SECURITY 2019 REVIEW ANDROID#
#BITDEFENDER TOTAL SECURITY 2019 REVIEW SOFTWARE#
#BITDEFENDER TOTAL SECURITY 2019 REVIEW PC#
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The benchmark completion time during a quick scan was 13.6 seconds, indicating a 10% performance drop from the post-installation score and a 31% drop from the baseline.

#BITDEFENDER TOTAL SECURITY 2019 REVIEW FULL#

The completion time increased to 12.4 seconds after Total Security was loaded but before any active scanning took place, indicating a a rather heavy 19% decline in performance.īy comparison, Kaspersky Total Security's post-installation performance decline was only 12%, and other brands had even less.ĭuring a full scan of the entire computer, it took our benchmark test 13.8 seconds to finish - an 11% percent decline in performance compared to the post-installation score, and a 33% decline from the pre-installation baseline. The Lenovo ThinkPad T470 laptop we used had a 2.5GHz Core i5-7200U processor, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of solid-state storage with 61.2GB of files.īefore we installed Bitdefender, the T470 took an average of 10.4 seconds to complete the benchmark, a result we used as a baseline.

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To measure the performance impact, we used our custom benchmark test, which clocks how long a PC takes to match 20,000 names and addresses on an Excel spreadsheet. Bitdefender: Security and privacy featuresĮach Bitdefender paid program blocks web-tracking in the Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome browsers, but not in Edge.

We also use results from London-based SE Labs, in which Kaspersky usually comes out on top, but Bitdefender is no longer tested by that lab. Its malware scanner may be a little too sensitive. Trend Micro had a perfect 100% score, and Kaspersky 99.7%.īitdefender had four false positives over the entire period and Kaspersky had two, but Trend Micro had an astounding 63 false positives. It caught 99.6% of the 'real-world' online threats in cumulative tests from July through October 2020.

In tests conducted by the AV-Comparatives lab in Austria, Bitdefender's defenses let a few threats through. Those other brands - ESET, Kaspersky, McAfee, Norton, Sophos and Trend Micro - also all got 100% scores across the board.īitdefender has done very well in most of AV-Test's 30 monthly evaluations since January 2017, failing to detect 100% of zero-day malware only three times and failing to detect 100% of widespread malware only once with a 99.9% score.

#BITDEFENDER TOTAL SECURITY 2019 REVIEW SOFTWARE#

In November-December 2020 testing by the Germany-based AV-Test lab, Bitdefender's malware-scanning engine detected 100% of both brand-new 'zero-day' malware and known 'widespread' malware.īut it picked up 12 false positives, a rather high number and by far the most of all seven brands of paid antivirus software we review. Latest test results as of January 2021 Malware detection rates (You'll still get the malware-signature updates.) If you'd rather Bitdefender not know that, you can opt out of this data collection. These uploads will include some information about your system and what it was doing when a new threat was detected. New malware signatures are distributed several times daily to the 500 million systems protected by Bitdefender products. Whenever Bitdefender's malware-scanning engine encounters what may be a new piece of malware, it uploads the suspicious item to Bitdefender's online testing lab for analysis. Like most antivirus makers, Bitdefender doesn't offer a consumer Linux program.

#BITDEFENDER TOTAL SECURITY 2019 REVIEW ANDROID#

Mobile devices require a minimum of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or iOS 11.2. The Mac software requires macOS 10.10 Yosemite or later. Subscription is free for the first year and costs $99 a year after that.īitdefender's Windows antivirus software works with Windows 7 (with Service Pack 1), Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10. Like Netgear Armor, the Box protects smart-home devices. You can also get Bitdefender Total Security for unlimited devices with the Bitdefender Box network-security appliance, which retails for $200. (Netgear has a full list of routers that support Netgear Armor here.)

That's quite a bargain considering you're getting the same coverage as the $120 Bitdefender Family Pack. You can also add it to routers that have already been purchased. Some new Netgear routers come with one to three free years of Armor protection.

#BITDEFENDER TOTAL SECURITY 2019 REVIEW LICENSE#

Netgear's newer routers, including the Orbi mesh systems and the Nighthawk line, have optional protection called Netgear Armor that protects smart-home devices and also includes an unlimited-device license for Bitdefender Total Security. There are also two ways to get Bitdefender antivirus protection with home networking hardware.

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