BitDefender 9 Professional Plus Review
BitDefender 9 Professional Plus
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You can buy it at RegNow for that price.
Fast, very stable, competent antivirus solution, offering anti-spyware, anti-dialer, low memory footprint, scheduler and real-time protection.
Consumes too much processing power
Quick introduction: As you might know, BitDefender is suite of higly optimized tools, developed by the romanian antivirus vendor Softwin. The product was classed as best-buy for many months, because of the excellent quality-price ratio. The product price is small compared to its rivals and it surpasses many of them in malware detection techniques. BitDefender 9 offers real-time spyware and virus protection, anti-dialer module and fast updates. In a recent study, Softwin was the fastest vendor to distribute engine and virus database updates: Your copy of BitDefender will be updated 24 times a day over the Internet, directly or through a Proxy Server. The product is accompanied by 24/7 online support by qualified representatives so all your questions regarding this product will be answered quickly. Also, Softwin was the first to release antidotes against viruses such as Bagle, Netsky, or My Doom in the shortest time.
The engine: The engine has heuristic detection capabilities, protecting you against 0-day attacks (Softwin was awarded for its innovative technologies like B-HAVE and HiVE in the past) and offers has a huge virus database (more than 250000 viral paterns contained). The engine is stable and fast, being built on a multithreaded architecture, offerring support for archive unpacking prior to scanning (more than 35 archive types supported). Also, the engine has highly optimized malware detection algorithms and auto-update features.
Proactive protection: The shield protects your PC by monitoring the file operations, the downloads and the installed programs and offers program control through an application-level firewall capable of protecting peer to peer network applications, instant messengers and e-mail clients. In addition, the antivirus suite offers parental control and a bayesian anti-spam filter ready to block threats. Regular scans for viruses and spyware can be added with an easy-to use scheduler interface, making BitDefender an install-and-forget product.
Awards: BitDefender has gained many awards over time, being certified by ICSA, Check Mark and CheckVir, as well as many VirusBulletin awards.
This is my top recomandation for antivirus software, be it for home or corporate use, offering all the features needed to prevent and clean computers from viruses and spyware infections.