One last feature worth mentioning is the built-in rescue environment. It works with Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer, and will sync across multiple PCs – but again it requires the Bitdefender software to be installed, so it won’t mesh with Mac or mobile devices. Perhaps more problematic, they can only be opened from within the Bitdefender software, which could be a pain if you need to move sensitive data around between systems.Ī password manager is also included, but you may not immediately realise it, as Bitdefender counterintuitively refers to a password database as a “wallet”.
It’s not the most flexible system in the world, though: vaults are created at a fixed size, so if you outgrow one then you’ll have to create a new vault and move everything across. There’s an interesting file encryption feature too, which lets you create any number of password protected “file vaults”, which appear as virtual drives in Explorer for easy access. Overall, Bitdefender ties with Kaspersky for the title of fastest security suite overall. Only in the initial file-copy test did its performance drop down to merely “fast”, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. That’s a claim that no other security suite can make.īitdefender also scored very highly in the performance tests, attaining “very fast” ratings for both launching applications and web browsing. In AV-Comparatives’ latest malware protection test, it was one of only four antivirus packages to achieve a 100% score – and it did it without flagging a single false positive. Only the most major incidents (such as a suspected ransomware attack) trigger a user notification.Īnd if you’re dubious of trusting your day-to-day security to an automated system, be assured that Bitdefender’s pedigree is impeccable.
Bitdefender’s signature Autopilot mode makes the software perfectly unobtrusive: when it’s switched on, the software silently decides what to block and what to allow without involving you at all. Aside from that, it’s largely business as usual.
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