Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2016 Review
Over the past few years, Bitdefender security products are topping most of the individual rankings. Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2016 is paid antivirus module with protection against other malwares. As mentioned in the feature lists, Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2016 is supposed to be preventing viruses, malwares, Trojan horses, Rootkits and any other types of malwares as that’s what the software is made for. Pricing for Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2016 is very reasonable; single product license comes for $39.95 per year and up to three PC license comes for $59.95 per year when you use bitdefender code promo from the website. Overall output in preventing malicious attacks to a computer system has been very satisfactory so far.
Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2016 Interface
On the very first interface that pops up when the software is launched, user gets to notice the well-managed modules and widgets. Also, a quick malware scan would be done after the first installation to check whether the system is under an imminent threat. Under the Modules link, there are several more security features and options to optimize the antivirus software itself. Other features are sorted into three different tabs - Privacy, Protection and Tools.
Safego Facebook feature from Bitdefender’s last year version had to go because the latest Facebook API offers enough privacy for its job. Also, user’s personal data would now be supervised by Data Protection feature, which is always active in the background as a prying eye on the malicious programs. Tools that had been used for tuning up the machine and the antivirus software itself are now distributed along several modules of Bitdefender, more simplified than before.
Anti-Malware Scan
Like most other security programs, Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2016 also offers different modes of system scan, e.g. – quick scan, thorough system scan etc. A quick scan only puts its focus on potential malware attacks and may ignore in-depth sightings to reduce the scan time, very useful for quickly scanning removable media like a flash drive or memory card.
The full system scan could take from an hour to two or three depending on how fast the computer is, and how big of a storage drive it has not to mention the read/write speed of the very same. However, Bitdefender will optimize the system for further full system scans during its first scan, hence it won’t take so long like the first time.
If you ever run into a situation where Bitdefender can’t get rid of the malware infection within a Windows environment, the Rescue Mode could very effectively safe the hassle of a rescue bootup disk. From the modules select Rescue Mode, turn it on and the computer would reboot into Rescue Mode. From this window, users get to run a full system scan to get rid of threats like virus attack in system drive or ransomware.
Performance Report
The effectiveness of this program has been tested with 20,094 samples of available malwares on a Windows 7 environment computer. 100 percent of the malware attacks had been detected by the software, resulting in a very successful AV Test result during the July 2015 session.
Conclusion
Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2016 is totally worth money and check review of it on antivirusinsider.com. For SMEs, the 3-license version would be highly useful and home users could stick to the regular 1 license version.