Pros: BitDefender Total Protection 2012 features top-notch protection, backup options, easy to use firewall, parental controls, advanced data security tools and a dose of performance enhancing utilities.

Cons: An integrated Search Advisor fails in flagging some dangerous and malicious sites.

Summary: BitDefender Total Security is an all-in-one premium security suite. It is capable of providing powerful utilities, top-notch security and performance enhancing features in a comprehensive solution. It is a valuable piece of software and comes at very reasonable cost.

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If you want to make sure your PC is performing at its best and safe all the time, the BitDefender Total Security will make your machine invulnerable to all cybercrimes and free of system-slowing data. It features backup tools, excellent customer support, parental controls, firewall and toolbox of useful utilities for PC keeping data organized and hard drive clean.

It surpasses other programs as it has high detection rates, useful tune-up, optimization tools and streamlined interface. It also includes data encryption tools and online backup option. The security suite interrupts malware, ensures that your PC is at its best and safeguards your data at the same time.

Its real time, kernel-level antivirus protection is capable of scanning internet and messaging traffic. It utilizes a number of advanced heuristic technologies to detect proactively and deter the latest and most recent malware.

This year’s version of BitDefender still has the ability to let you schedule scans and run them when you want to. It implements a scanning technology adjusting its behavior according to processing resources available.

BitDefender Total Security features a firewall and hosts flexible and highly advanced firewall that offers protection to computer with automatic adjustments to suit your location. The firewall integrates a Wi-Fi monitor that can detect and prevent forbidden access from intruders to your Wi-Fi network. BitDefender’s security is definitely second to none allowing you to do the normal activities you normally do online without worrying about identity theft, system lag and virus infections.

The software’s main focus has been security as always, but there is more that it can offer in terms of PC performance and optimization utility tools. It has advanced settings and tweaks so users can easily fine tune the performance of their PC for optimum speed and effective utilization of resources.

It also offers additional features such as laptop mode, gamer mode and parental control. The parental monitoring and time control features are highly effective giving parents complete control when their child uses the internet. The gamer mode allows uninterrupted full screen game play or even movie watching. Moreover, it can perform online and local backup jobs.

The Bitfefender Total Protection 2012 is more advanced as its software interface has been improved, increasing usability and user efficiency.

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