BitDefender Antivirus Free Edition (Windows): Review and download

BitDefender Free Antivirus offers optimal protection for your computer. Real-time protection and scanning is efficient, and it consumes few resources. It has a quite simple interface, and it’s easy to use because there is nothing to configure, so it’s ideal for less experienced users. BitDefender Antivirus Free combats malware such as viruses, worms, and spyware. This program features a game mode, which automatically disables real time analysis to ensure maximum performance when you are gaming. Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition shares some of the revolutionary technologies that allowed our main product line to outpass major competitors such as AVG, Avast or Avira.

Main features

Real-time Shield: The real time shield is designed to protect your entire system from infected files coming from the outside, before they have a chance to spread inside your PC.

Anti-phishing: How can you keep your passwords safe and still surf freely? It’s easy: Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition detects and blocks by default phishing websites that appear to be legitimate in order to steal your data.

Antifraud: If you ever end up on a fraudulent website, our advanced filtering system will detect the suspicious behavior of the web page and prevent your sensitive financial data from falling into the hands of hackers.

Active Virus Control: Proactive technology that quickly and accurately detects potential threats, even in cases of new viruses for which there is no default protection released yet.

Intrusion Detection System: Ensures that applications trying to access the Internet or the network are not masked malware. Intrusion Detection is automatically alerted when such apps behave in a suspect manner, and blocks them when they go over the limit.

B-Have: Proactively detects unknown threats that other products miss, by analyzing how apps behave in a safe environment. If no malicious actions are detected, B-Have starts the program normally. Otherwise, it will automatically quarantine or delete it.

HTTP Scanning: Protects you from scams such as credit card phishing attempts, Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition scans all the links you access from your browser and blocks them when they prove to be unsafe.

Anti-rootkit: Rootkits are a type of stealth software, often malicious, that can help hackers get control of your computer. Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition uses special technology that detects and blocks such malicious software.

Early Boot Scanning: This technology scans the system at boot time, as soon as all critical services are loaded. Early boot scanning ensures virus detection at system startup, while also improving boot time.

Auto Scan: A huge time and resource saver, Auto Scan is a Bitdefender proprietary technology that focuses virus detection efforts on risky areas.