With Sophos also dropping its free Sophos Home, there's not a lot of incentive for the big antivirus vendors to give their product away. We don't like to see any free antivirus disappear, but Bitdefender's offering was basic in the extreme, and didn't really fit with the other products. The other big change this year is Bitdefender has dropped its free version. An iOS Security Assessment highlights risky security settings and suggests changes the Android app now detects and blocks more link-based mobile attacks there's 'deep level analysis' to figure out the cause of a Windows attack, M1 compatibility and faster scans on Mac, and - hooray - Dark and Light modes for Mac and Windows. It's smart enough to automatically connect when you need it (well, some of the time) split tunnelling enables choosing which apps use the VPN (opens in new tab), and which use your regular connection there's a new Android app, and ad and tracker blocking is built in.īitdefender's other new features are harder to spot, though still welcome. That's limited to a minimal 200MB traffic a day, but it could be worse - the unregistered version of Avira's Phantom VPN (opens in new tab) restricts you to 500MB a month.īitdefender VPN gains the most new functionality in the 2022 edition, too. As you might guess from the name, it goes way beyond regular malware hunting with a stack of useful security and privacy extras: an additional layer of ransomware protection, Wi-Fi security scanning to detect network problems, banking protection via a secure browser, secure file deletion, a vulnerability scanner and a password manager.Īntivirus Plus also gets you the free version of Bitdefender VPN (opens in new tab). The consumer range starts with Bitdefender Antivirus Plus (opens in new tab). You can jump to the reviews of those individual products by clicking on the links in the bar at the top of this page, but bear in mind that this article is really designed to be read all the way through, as the features of Antivirus Plus are also present in the higher-level security suites. (c) the top-end package Bitdefender Total Security.

(a) a full evaluation of the entry-level Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, along with our reviews of the additional features incorporated with the rest of the range: On this page, after our brief intro, you’ll find This is our all-in-one roundup reviewing every Bitdefender consumer security solution for 2022.

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