Bitdefender Blends Heuristic Scan Engine and Cloud-Based Update - By: Vipin Madaan

Computer security has come over ages, and in the course of evolution the discipline has acquired much sophistication. The ideology which started with the sole concept of shielding viruses responsible for corrupting system and application software along with saved files has gone amendment as per the growing Internet threats. No doubt computer virus is still a major concern due to its fast replicating and spreading nature. Virus infected files often serve as the payload for other serious programs including Trojans, keyloggers, worm, rootkits and spyware that can wreck mayhem for the computer security. Viruses make use of the network files, e-mails and instant messenger or other mediums to alter programs on networked PCs. A new term i.e. Malware has been coined by the computer security experts to encompass all. A worm can exploit security vulnerabilities often loopholes in the software, while a Trojan horse is a program that appears harmless but hides malicious functions. Worms, Trojans and spyware can be more dangerous as these not only corrupt system data i.e. Windows Files, but can also relay your confidential information to a distant sitting person or server. At times, visible symptoms may let you know that something wrong has gone with your machine. Under symptoms you may experience slow performance, problems or errors while accessing programs and files, e-mail send/receive errors or more. However, situation becomes worse when you are unable to trace out their presence.

Bitdefender is a popular computer security brand and its royal presence can be felt in home and business segment both across the globe. It was launched in the year 2001, and since then the brand has achieved several milestone in terms of customer satisfaction. It has bagged award from AV Test.org, VB100, PCMag, AV-Comparatives and other reputed software testing organizations. Let’s go through Bitdefender Internet Security and Bitdefender Total Security features, which are compatible with the Windows 7 and Vista operating systems.

Both products are equipped with state-of-the-art antivirus and antispyware, personal firewall, privacy control, user control and backup features. AutoPilot is considered to be the most useful feature, and it will make sure that you go smooth with core-computing without the hassles or objections from security related alerts or pop-ups. Means, let everything on the security, it will decide which traffic to be blocked or which to be allowed depending upon respective behavior and credentials. The scanning is based on virtualized behavior-based detection and the duo software gets updated with the trusted cloud-based services, to stop emerging e-threats from breaching in. Bitdefender security goes well with social network and search engine like Google and Bing.

Bitdefender Total Security Suite assimilates PC Tuneup and Performance Optimizer tools as well. The “console settings” of the software gives you quick access to various components, and you can enable, disable or configure those as per requirement. Parental Control will restrict unsolicited web contents from your kids. You can set time for the Internet accessibility, and even monitor their activity remotely.

Bitdefender Rescue Mode is one-of-its-kind tool that can repair corrupted Windows Files and can remove culprit or malicious software including viruses, spyware and malware. You can easily burn the ISO image available on its site on a CD/DVD/USB, and can use to repair the booting issues with your machine.

Whether running Bitdefener for proactive protection or for recovery from worse situation, the best result depends upon how effectively you have updated or configured the software.

About the Author

The author is a technician at Techvedic technologies, a firm that delivers end to end Avast Support to clients. Online computer repair, Bitdefender Total Security, Hp support, Uninstall Avast are few services offered at this one platform along with many others.

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