Thread: BitDefender - Total Security 2010 review

We've been overwhelmed in the long-ago by BitDefender as well as Total Security 2009was one of the most excellent substitute to more established names in this market. The latest version assures a likewise complete set of features plus had us wondering precisely what else the corporation can do to advance on its earlier period achievement.

Installation is fast as well as simple and setup engage registering an account, choosing a default settings profile for the application (select among ‘typical', ‘parent', ‘gamer' or else ‘custom'), the nature of your home setup with a level of knowledge from beginner to expert. This configures the application agreeably for first-time use as well as it's simple to adjust these modes later on if required.

We liked the interface of the earlier version, which controlled to gather a broad range of tools jointly in an accessible plus convenient way. There has been an artistic refresh here to create things a bit more colorful with streamlined but luckily the universal layout remains the identical, splitting tools into a general ‘dashboard' overview, security, tune-up, file-storage as well as network.

One more helpful characteristic that has been maintained is the software's capability to track as well as report possible system issues, varying from out of date virus definitions to backup plus tune-up suggestion, Windows update alerts with registry clean-up. Monitored areas can be configured physically with flagged issues can be approved by means of the ‘Fix all' method or else individually, as necessary.

The bright way of structuring the interface as well as alerts in the ‘basic' as well as ‘beginner' modes is essential to continue track of the broad range of utilities offered with Total Security. Aside from necessary firewall, anti-virus, anti-malware as well as anti-phishing, added security contains anti-spam, parental control, home network monitoring as well as system vulnerability test. There's also a series of tune-up tools that contain a defragmenter, disc with registry clean-up as well as a duplicate file finder. Files can be encrypted or else eternally wipe up, as well as local backups are set off by 2GB of online storage.