BitDefender Virus Prevention Software

I have been using computers for the best part of 15 years, I have been online for at least 10 of those and during that time have tried many weird and wonderful virus scanners and virus prevention applications. I used to just use the free ones that you could download here and there but always found that the virus definition library was always a couple of years out of date. Pretty useless if you’re using the Internet and putting yourself at risk from viruses that were coded and released just yesterday. I have also tried some of the high end releases from Sophos and Norton and whilst they appeared to do a great job (touch wood), I don’t think they were worth the cost. However, one paid virus scanning application I can recommend is BitDefender.

I have been a user of this application for around 4 years now, mainly because it is very competitively priced admittedly but as well as that, it has all the features you would ever need in an anti virus application. The thing I like the most about BitDefender is that it just sits there running, in the background without taking up too much memory and I know it’s working for me. I feel safe. Almost every week it alerts me of threats when I visit certain websites and open certain files. I am just looking at the amount of viruses it has “caught” over the past month and it’s quite significant. I can only imagine what would have happened to my data and computer if I hadn’t had it running!

It also has a great anti phishing filter to protect me from malicious websites trying to coax me into entering my data - not that I’d fall for that anymore. I just think it’s a good all round application that does everything, stays updated and is priced very very competitively.