Key Features:

  • Blocks viruses, spyware & spam
  • Halts ID theft attempts
  • Filters the links you receive from your Facebook and Twitter friends
  • Keeps kids safe with cutting-edge parental controls
  • Protects your data with Online Backup
  • Tunes up your PC for optimal speed & performance
  • 24/7 credit monitoring with real-time alerts (U.S. only)


Unparalleled Security
Bitdefender capitalizes on live and virtualized behavior-based detection, in addition to cloud-based services, to stop emerging e-threats that other products miss.

Active Virus Control
Monitors processes’ behavior while they are running to detect new & unknown viruses.

Rescue Mode
Reboots your computer in a trusted environment, which is used for cleanup and restoration.

Virtualized Browser
Isolates the browser from the operating system in a Bitdefender-provided environment to block web-based threats.

Vulnerability Scanner
Checks for missing or outdated security software as well as potentially unsafe system settings.

Antispam
Stops unwanted email from reaching your Inbox

Two-way Firewall
Monitors your Internet connections and keeps strangers from accessing your Wi-Fi connection

Parental Control
Blocks inappropriate content, restricts Web access between certain hours, and helps parents remotely monitor their children’s online activity.

Autopilot
Provides a hassle-free experience by making optimal security-related decisions without input from you.

Worry-free Socializing
Protect yourself, and your friends, from e-threats that attempt to exploit the trust you’ve built with them.

Social Network Protection
Filters the links you receive from your Facebook and Twitter friends and monitors your privacy settings.

Search Advisor
Gives advance warning of risky websites right in your Google and Bing search results.

Total Privacy
Bitdefender protects your privacy and personal data with a range of specialized modules and functions.

Personal Data Filter
Prevents critical data, such as your social security number, from ever leaving your computer.

Antiphising
Blocks websites supporting various scams or credit card phishing attempts.

Chat Encryption
Keeps your conversations private on Yahoo! Messenger.
File Shredder – Ensures that no traces of your deleted sensitive files remain on your PC

File Encryption
Locks up confidential files in an encrypted vault.

Full Speed
Bitdefender 2012 takes “scheduled scanning” to a whole new level, as the scanning only takes place when your system is idle.

Scan Dispatcher
Triggers system scans when resource usage falls below a certain threshold to avoid any impact on your system’s performance.

Tune-Up
Removes unnecessary files and registry entries, for optimized performance

Secure Backup
Bitdefender Total Security comes with 2 GB of free, secure online space to back up your critical files.

Safebox
Automatically backs up files and folders to a secure remote server and allows file sync between your computers.

System Requirements:

Minimal system requirements:

  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 (32 bit) , Vista (SP2), Microsoft Windows 7 (SP1)
  • CPU: 800MHz processor
  • Memory (RAM):
  • 1 GB
  • Available free hard disk space: 1.8 GB free space (at least 800 MB on the system drive)

Recommended system requirements:

  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 (32 bit), Vista (SP2), Microsoft Windows 7 (SP1)
  • CPU: Intel CORE Duo (1.66 GHz) or equivalent processor
  • Memory (RAM):
  • 1 GB (Microsoft Windows XP)
  • 1.5 GB (Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7)
  • Available free hard disk space: 2.8 GB free space (at least 800 MB on system drive)

 

 
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Bitdefender Total Security 2012

Pros
Bitdefender deploys innovative ways to fight zero-day threats. They are the best at detecting and repairing malware.

Cons
Their mobile security is for Android devices. They do not provide security for iPhones or Windows phones.

The Verdict

Malware creators are prolific and relentless. To combat emerging threats you need security software that fights like a heavyweight yet operates stealthily in the background. Bitdefender does both.