Antivirus software is a must for any computer to protect data against malicious programs that can potentially damage it and among those that are preferred by many people are AVG and BitDefender antivirus. If you have to pick one between the two to use on your computer, which will you learn towards? In this write-up, you will learn more about the two and then later on try to come up with the winner.
BitDefender Antivirus
Not a lot of computer users knew about this software in the early 2000s but BitDefender Antivirus is actually one of the best guards against hackers for quite some time already. This software was created by Softwin, a Romanian company which officially released the software in the year 2001 both for personal and business use. As for the home editions, this was made available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS, Windows Mobile and Symbian OS. Meanwhile, for the business editions, they include Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
More About This Software
The most recent version of this software is called ‘BitDefender Total Security 2015’ wherein the user will only pay $85 for one year of service which can accommodate up to 3 computers. In cases of lost or stolen mobile phones, this software can also be used for protection by securing online transactions and backing up files automatically. The $85 cost is already a discounted price which offers its user with safe online shopping and banking, online safety for a child user and protection against hackers of personal information on social networking sites.
Among the features to use from the BitDefender Antivirus are Antivirus Free Edition, Safego, Traffic Light, Anti-Theft and BitDefender USB Immunizer.
AVG Free Antivirus
This is one of the most popular and trusted free antivirus software of today created by the AVG Technologies that was founded in Czechoslovakia in 1992. For the AVG Antivirus Free 2015 software, the device of the user should have an Intel Pentium 1.8GHz or even a faster processor, 1350 MB of hard disk space free to use and not less than 512MB of RAM.
What the AVG Free Antivirus software does is detects and block online threats before they even get to the device of the user. Among the available features to use are AntiMalware, AntiVirus, Email Scanner, Community Protection Network and Anti-Roolkit.
The BitDefender Antivirus and AVG Free Antivirus are really good options that it might seem a bit confusing for you to proclaim one of them as the winner. If you’re still not able to make up your mind, you can also download a trial version of any of the two, try it and the buy the licensed version if you find that it’s the right fit for your needs.