

The Bitdefender suite comes with Bitdefender Antivirus Plus - also available separately - which works great and throws up next to no false positives, according to standardised industry tests.

With a huge number of options which promise varying degrees of protection, we dug deep to narrow down the best "antivirus" packages for your consideration.
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More importantly, antivirus/ security software must accomplish everything without impacting your system performance, getting in the way with an endless number of popup notifications, and being unreasonably expensive. From compromised software that covertly hijacks your system to be part of a botnet, to apps that siphon off your personal information, today's antivirus software must be built to roll with the punches.Ī great security package needs to deal not only with viruses and malware as before, but also provide a tough yet user-friendly firewall, useful and intelligent parental control options, excellent phishing protection, heuristic analysis to identify new zero-day threats, post-apocalyptic rescue tools to bring your devices back from the (figurative) dead. Although OS manufacturers have begun to provide basic security tools, these are paper-thin defences against the sharp and very real threats lurking out there. Antivirus tools have had to evolve into much more comprehensive security software that can take on half a dozen new types of threats. Over the last decade with Internet pervading every part of our lives, the amount of time we spend on our devices and the extent of our dependence on them have skyrocketed.
