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Publisher's Description

From BitDefender:

Bitdefender Absolute Aegis 2012 offers ultimate bashful aegis for the net-centric lifestyle, angry every class of e-threats with best-of-breed technologies.

Bitdefender capitalizes on alive and virtualized behavior-based detection, in accession to cloud-based services, to stop arising e-threats that added articles miss.

What's fresh in this version:

* Autopilot: Autopilot provides a hassle-free acquaintance by authoritative optimal security-related decisions afterwards ascribe from you. This bureau no pop-ups, no alerts, annihilation to configure.

* Social Network Protection: Bitdefender filters/blocks social-networking specific e-threats by scanning the links you accept from your Facebook and Twitter friends, and monitors your aloofness settings.

The basal line: Bitdefender Absolute Aegis 2012 makes a acceptable angle as an accessible Windows aegis option. It's got an astronomic another of features, but the best one bureau you'll never see addition aegis notification afresh unless you get infected. However, the actuality that you can get the aforementioned affection alike in Bitdefender's basal antivirus apartment bureau you care to anticipate alert afore accepting this superhigh-end version.

Bitdefender Total Internet Security 2012

Review:

Bitdefender Absolute Aegis 2012 presents a acceptable another to its better-known competitors. It's a able program, with all the above accoutrement that users expect, and some added advantageous tricks in its arsenal. Back it comes to efficacy, Bitdefender isn't the best in every area, but it's absolutely competitive.

Editors' note: Portions of this analysis are based on CNET's analysis of Bitdefender Absolute Aegis 2011.

Installation

Bitdefender's accession still aggressively detects added aegis programs you accept installed. It won't comedy able-bodied with the baby subset of programs that are advised to supplement the above suites, like Malwarebytes. It won't install if you accept alike debris of them left. To ensure that Bitdefender installs cleanly, our admonition is to use an uninstaller apparatus like Revo Uninstaller to accumulate affairs bits from causing conflicts. The advantage in aftermost year's adaptation that accustomed circumstantial installations appears to accept been removed.

Bitdefender still offers a awful customizable accession experience, but it's no best the default. Now, accession will abeyance in the boilerplate so you can register, and afresh zip along. It accomplished in about 2 minutes, which the aggregation says is bisected the time the 2011 adaptation takes. At the end of the installation, the affairs notifies you that it has completed a basal virus browse to ensure that it wasn't installing on an adulterated machine.

Uninstallation was a fast and accessible process, and the affairs alike allows you to accept whether to clean Windows Defender and Windows firewall. A few Registry entries were larboard behind, though.

Interface

For the additional year in a row, Bitdefender has overhauled its interface. The fresh attending sports a aphotic theme, not clashing Norton, and retains the modularity of aftermost year's Basal interface, but the blow is absolutely new. Gone are the Boilerplate and Advanced interface designs, replaced with a beneath chaotic, added boilerplate approach. A big notification cachet arena at the top of the interface warns you of your aegis status, with blooming for secure, chicken for problems that "require attention," and red for actual aegis issues. Generally, we anticipate that in the apple of circuitous aegis threats, a simplified, two-status arrangement of red and blooming works added acceptable than one with an boilerplate status. Nevertheless, this year's interface is absolutely easier to use than aftermost year's.

Next to the black cachet arena are links to Events, Settings, and AutoPilot. Contest takes you to a log of contempo aegis events, and it cleverly uses a Facebook-style adjournment notification pop-up to acquaint you back article has happened acute attention.

What has been retained from aftermost year's adaptation is the user's adeptness to accept which aegis modules alive advanced and center. By beat the arrow to the appropriate of the capital four accoutrement or beat the row of gray dots, you can annal through a array of appearance and bang and annoyance to alter them. Leaving them in their absence locations will clothing best users, however. Antivirus, Firewall, Antispam, and Amend are the aboriginal four that you'll see; they accept a unified look, anniversary with an figure at the top and administer or amend toggles at the bottom.

The Settings window is appreciably accessible to use, with tabs that echo the options presented in the capital window. Anniversary tab on the larboard reveals accompanying tabs on top back you bang on it, such as Advanced settings beneath General, or Quarantine beneath Antivirus. Sliders accomplish it accessible to toggle settings, so you can bound change the antivirus scan, for example, from Aggressive to Normal to Permissive.

Features and support

As the exceptional apartment from Bitdefender, Absolute Aegis 2012 offers a aggressive another of accoutrement and options. Forth with antivirus and anti-malware apprehension and abatement engines, the apartment has phishing protection, a spam guard, babble encryption, assorted browse levels, a firewall, affectionate controls, a arrangement achievement optimizer, book encryption, and online backup.

There aren't abounding changes to Absolute Aegis in this year's edition. Aftermost year the aggregation confused best of its scanning, but not all of it, to the cloud. However, traditional, locally based virus analogue scans are still a basal of how Bitdefender protects you. The acceptability agent in Bitdefender doesn't absolutely avoid files that it's articular as safe. Based on a geometric progression algorithm that looks at back a book was aftermost accessed, Bitdefender will occasionally attending at safe files to ensure that they haven't been angry into sleeper agents. The virus apprehension agent has been bigger this year to attending at processes while they are running, while Bitdefender's own processes were confused to the atom to accomplish it added difficult for threats to avoid the suite. In turn, this has bargain the suite's appulse on arrangement resources.

What is fresh is the AutoPilot, a acute arrangement that sets best notifications to silent, automatically deals with best threats encountered, and basically ensures that your aegis is alive but not aggravation you. Similar to Bitdefender's competitors' "silent" or "gaming" modes, it's on by default, so you could conceivably install Bitdefender and never attending at it again. The toggle for it lives at the top appropriate of the capital interface, so bodies who appetite added ascendancy over their aegis can calmly conciliate it. Bitdefender 2012 additionally has a gaming approach that alone silences notifications.

The browser add-on for Firefox and Internet Explorer has been wisely done abroad with, replaced by a bore that will assure you beyond all bristles above browsers by scanning Web cartage afore it alcove the browser. Meanwhile, a vulnerability scanner will analysis your computer for anachronous programs, drivers, and patches, and acclaim solutions.

The Bitdefender Safego apparatus has been chip into the suite, too. It performs articulation scanning for Facebook, with affairs to accommodate Twitter abutment soon. On Facebook, it will browse your account and bank feeds. It's additionally accessible chargeless to all Facebook users, and the company's Android app charcoal chargeless to all as well.

The accomplishment approach changes are acutely useful. If threats like rootkits can't be removed easily, the computer is rebooted into accomplishment mode. Bitdefender's accomplishment approach differs from its competitors' because it creates an encrypted, independent Linux OS book on your PC that the accomplishment approach boots into. It additionally adds Linux as an advantage to your cossack BIOS.

The Safebox feature, which automatically backs up your files to a alien server back changes accept been detected, will now accompany files beyond assorted computers alive Bitdefender. Safebox comes with 2GB of chargeless storage, the aforementioned as best of Bitdefender's competitors. Notably, Safebox is the alone fresh or bigger affection that alone comes in Bitdefender Absolute Aegis 2012. The added improvements accept been fabricated beyond all three Bitdefender suites.

One breadth area Bitdefender has bargain the accomplished in-program abutment it offered aftermost year is that video tutorials that acclimated to be included with the affairs accept been confused to the Web. The chump abutment cardinal is alive in the Bitdefender Web site, as is the articulation to the alive babble support. Direct admission from the program's interface would be useful, abnormally if your Internet affiliation isn't working. Sadly, burying the abutment cardinal is annihilation fresh in the aegis apartment business.

Performance

Bitdefender Absolute Aegis 2012 shares the aforementioned apprehension agent as its beneath feature-laden siblings, Bitdefender Internet Aegis 2012 and Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2012, so all three are discussed here.

Bitdefender isn't the added acceptable name in security, but name acceptance doesn't according efficacy. In a real-world test, Bitdefender completed its antecedent browse during accession in 3 minutes, 16 seconds. During two consecutive uninstalls and reinstalls, the accession browse consistently took added than 4 minutes. Afterwards the accession scan, the apartment averaged Quick-scan achievement in 2 minutes, 9 seconds, over three runs, about 1 minute slower than aftermost year.

The Deep browse averaged 1 hour, 32 minutes, 49 abnormal over three installs, about 38 account slower than aftermost year's real-world browse time average.

CNET Labs' benchmarks begin that Bitdefender benchmarked well, but with some allowance for improvement. Agenda that while aftermost year's benchmarks were activated on the basal accession of Windows 7 x64, CNET Labs is now application a Windows 7 x64 analysis bed alive Service Pack 1. So while after-effects are added commensurable than they would be with, say, a Windows XP computer, there's still a notable aberration amid the analysis computers.

Bitdefender 2012 showed fast but not beauteous browse times, with Absolute Aegis 2012 scoring 920 seconds, Antivirus Plus 2012 hitting 996 seconds, and Internet Aegis 2011 commutual in 969 seconds. However, the suites' appulse on cossack time was beneath tolerable. Antivirus Plus added 17 abnormal to the cossack time; Internet Aegis added 19 seconds; and Absolute Aegis slowed the PC cossack aeon by a arresting 21.6 seconds. Likewise, the appulse on abeyance times was additionally problematic, with Antivirus Plus and Internet Aegis abacus about 11 abnormal to shutdown, and Absolute Aegis extending abeyance by 25 seconds. Compared with aftermost year, back Bitdefender slowed cossack time by about 6 abnormal and abeyance time by about 2.25 seconds, this is a bright footfall astern for the suite.

On the beneath analytical but still important tests of MS Office performance, iTunes decoding, media multitasking, and Cinebench, Bitdefender did abundant better. The array for all three suites were amid the fastest we've apparent appropriately far this year.

Please agenda that back Bitdefender 2012 is one of the aboriginal suites to be appear this season, apartment comparisons and ratings may be adapted at a afterwards date.

Note: All tests abstinent in seconds, except for Cinebench. On the Cinebench test, college numbers are better.

Independent testing bureau AV-Test.org has apparent consistently aerial array for Bitdefender Internet Aegis 2011 during the aboriginal two abode of 2011. On a Windows 7 computer, Bitdefender denticulate 6 out of 6 on Protection, 4 out of 6 on Repair, and 5.5 out of 6 on Usability, for an all-embracing account of 15.5 out of 18, allowance the minimum of 11 for an AV-Test.org affidavit and earning the accomplished account of the aboriginal quarter.

In the additional quarter, on a Windows XP computer, Bitdefender Internet Aegis 2011 did alike better. The apartment hit 6 out of 6 on Aegis and 5.5 out of 6 on both Repair and Usability, for a absolute of 17 out of 18, already afresh acceptable the highest-scoring suite.

Note that AV-Test.org defines its categories as follows: "The 'Protection' covers changeless and activating malware detection, including real-world zero-day advance testing. In case of 'Repair,' we analysis the arrangement ablution and rootkit abatement in detail. The 'Usability' testing includes the arrangement arrest acquired by the accoutrement and the cardinal of apocryphal positives."

Third-quarter after-effects aren't in yet, but after-effects aggregate by AV-Test.org with CNET announce that the apartment continues to accomplish well. It alveolate a 99.53 percent malware apprehension rate, college than the all-embracing boilerplate amount of 96.14 percent in July 2011 acceptance testing. The apartment was able to abolish 93.6 percent of alive malware infections, college than the industry boilerplate of 80.7 percent, and 90 percent of rootkit infections. However, the rootkit infection apprehension and abatement amount akin the industry average. In AV-Test.org's zero-day attacks test, Bitdefender blocked 100 percent of the attacks, compared with the boilerplate July 2011 acceptance after-effects of 85.7 percent. The apartment additionally did not acquisition any apocryphal positives.

In short, AV-Test.org begin Bitdefender 2011 and the fresh 2012 to be awful able aegis protection, and both were progressively added able than Bitdefender 2010.

The best contempo AV-Comparatives.org Whole Product test, which looks at on-demand scanning, attendant tests, and "real-world" guards including cloud-based protections, puts Bitdefender 2011 in the top four suites tested. The June 2011 analysis begin that it blocked 98.8 percent of attacks and threats befuddled at it, alone abaft F-Secure, Panda, and Trend Micro. Meanwhile, attractive at Whole Product analysis after-effects cumulatively from January 2011 to June 2011 begin that Bitdefender 2011 came in additional alone to F-Secure, blocking 99.1 percent of threats.

A third testing lab, Dennis Technology Labs, had hardly beneath acceptable account for Bitdefender from its January 2011 test, although the after-effects were still strong. In its analysis of high-end suites, including Bitdefender Absolute Aegis 2011, Dennis Labs placed Bitdefender fourth, abaft Norton 360 v5, Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Aegis 2011, and ESET Acute Aegis v4. Agenda that Norton 360 v5 was adapted about six months afterwards its competitors, in March 2011, and although ESET aftermost accustomed a above amend in April 2009, it has been accepting accessory updates regularly.

It's fair to achieve that according to third-party tests, Bitdefender has been awful able over the accomplished year, and if that's your best important accepted afresh you'd be aiming aerial by allotment it. However, back it comes to arrangement performance, accurately start-up and abeyance times, Bitdefender has allowance to improve.

Conclusions

Bitdefender Absolute Aegis 2012 has a abundant and aggressive ambit of features. It could accept added acceptable arrangement benchmarks, but the aegis it offers is top-notch. Throw all that together, befitting in apperception the seamless AutoPilot system, and you've got the adequacy of a sleeper hit. It's absolutely account blockage out for high-end protection.