Active Virus Control - Active Virus Control is an innovative proactive detection technology that is able to detect new potential threats for which default protection has not yet been released, very fast and accurately, thus providing an essential protection layer.For example, the files you just downloaded from the Internet are scanned immediately.

This means that files are scanned as they are accessed or copied. Real-time Shield - The real time shield is designed to protect access to the entire system.The software also puts only a light load on a PC with our 1GB test file taking only 23 percent longer when a scan was running in the background, than without. BitDefender Antivirus Free Edition 2016: performanceĪ scan of our 50GB file basket completed in 1 hour 18 minutes and evaluated 286,373 files, giving it a scan rate of 61 files per second, but a second scan took just 11s and scanned 10,183 files, so after the initial checks, Bitdefender looks very efficient at subsequent scans.

There’s a fair degree of justification for this trust, as it scores remarkably well when tested. The flipside of this lack of control over settings is that it’s very easy just to load up and forget the software and trust that it will do its work and protect your PC. You can start a scan of specific files or folders from the BitDefender option in file menus, but again the progress of such a scan is shown only by the slowly changing border colour for the On Demand Scanner sub-panel which pops up. As far as we can see, there’s no way to instigate a full or quick scan you have to leave it to the automated protection features of the product to scan what it needs when it needs to.

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