Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition

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What is it?

The free Romanian antivirus / anti-malware program Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition.

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What is it about?

This is how Bitdefender describes this free antivirus / anti-malware program:

Lightning-fast free antivirus

Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition is blazing fast, free to use, and loaded only with the bare-bones protection features that every computer needs.

Installs in seconds, runs at max speed without slowing down your PC
Good for gaming, image and video editing, and resource-intensive applications.

Powerful protection packed into a light solution

Powered by award-winning technology

Real-time Threat Detection

Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition uses behavioral detection to closely monitor your active apps.

When it detects anything suspicious, it takes instant action.

Virus Scanning and Malware Removal

Powerful scan engines ensure detection and removal of all malware, from viruses, worms and Trojans, to ransomware, zero-day exploits, rootkits and spyware.

A strong, silent guardian for your PC

Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition is an antivirus to rely on.

It uses a minimalistic approach to make sure of the one thing that matters: whether you’re a rookie or a techie, your PC will be defended against intruders.

On-demand & on-access scanning that runs in the background
Essential protection without the extra stuff
No time-consuming scans, no sudden lag, no ads out of the blue

Free protection against Internet fraud

Anti-phishing

How can you keep your passwords safe and still browse freely?

It’s easy: Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition sniffs and blocks by default phishing websites that pretend to be trustworthy in order to steal your data.

Anti-Fraud

If you ever land on scam websites, our advanced filtering system detects suspicious web page behavior and prevents your sensitive financial data from falling into the wrong hands.

Zemana AntiMalware (Free)

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What is it?

The free version of the cloud based second opinion anti-malware scanner program Zemana AntiMalware (this is a direct link to download the free version because the main page links to the trial version instead of the free version, and the link to the free version used to be hidden at the bottom of that page).

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What is it about?

This is how Wikipedia describes this program:

In 2015, Zemana presented an anti-malware security solution for Microsoft Windows ^[15][16] named Zemana AntiMalware.

It is a second opinion malware scanner designed to scan and clean a PC from malware.

It protects users from known and yet-to-be-born threats such as viruses, trojans, rootkits, computer worms, spyware, ransomware.^[17][18]

Zemana AntiMalware is very efficient in adware removal especially for many hard to remove adware infections.^[19]

It is a cloud based anti-malware software with its own signature database.

Zemana AntiMalware is highly optimized and lightweight with virus definitions stored in the cloud not cluttering up PCs’ drive.^[20]

Because it scans the files in the cloud, the detection time for new virus outbreaks is reduced.

In July 2016, MRG Effitas, a UK-based independent IT security research company, conducted a comparative analysis of Zemana AntiMalware and other prevalent generic ransomware tools.

The tested version of Zemana AntiMalware was 2.21.2.139.

Besides the default settings used, Pandora Cloud-Sandbox Technology was turned on.

They tested ransomware protection tools against eleven different ransomware, which have been prevalent in-the wild over the past 3–4 years.

Based on this report, Zemana AntiMalware proved to be the best ransomware protection among the tested products during the test.^[21]

Zemana AntiMalware is available in two versions, where one is for free use with limited security features^[22] and the other version is available in a form of a 14-day free trial of the commercialized version including all security features: real-time protection, bootkit and rootkit removal, ransomware protection, malware removal, browser cleaning, zero-day malware protection, malware scanning and automatic updating.^[23]