I don’t recall seeing a warning on the link on Facebook, but later when I returned to the same post on Facebook, Bitdefender placed a yellow check mark next to the link warning me not to follow it.Īs for the four web-based attacks, it was good to have real-time protection, but Bitdefender didn’t explain what they were when I clicked on the warning. Another time, I clicked on one of those Facebook quizzes in a moment of weakness (pre-Cambridge Analytica), and during my time on the external site, Bitdefender said it blocked four web-based attacks.
Bitdefender completely ignored searches on DuckDuckGo and links on Techmeme, for example. First, verification only happens for mainstream sites.
Those check marks are not bulletproof, however. Bitdefender also checks external links on websites and social networks like Facebook and Twitter, though sometimes not consistently.
If not, there’s a yellow warning label with an exclamation mark. If the link is deemed safe a little green checkmark will appear next to it. When you’re searching online on Google, for example, it checks every link (presumably against a database of malicious ones). Ian Paul/IDGīitdefender also takes an active role in your web activity. In my experience, these are all tasks that any competent antivirus suite is supposed to carry out automatically anyway. On paper, it’s a solid set of extras, but in practice it feels more like a marketing bullet point than anything else. You can save files in Bitdefender’s File Vault, but there are times when it’s helpful to keep file attachments with login data: secret questions for your bank, for example, or other sensitive information best stored as an image or text document. This section lacks the ability to save notes or add attachments that need to be securely stored, however. There are also sections for email login information, and router logins. The wallet is a password manager that can save website logins, as well as credit card numbers, address, phone number, birth date, application license keys, and so on. The Privacy section also houses Bitdefender’s parental control features. Safepay has a number of helpful features including the ability to block other apps from taking a screenshot, and a virtual keyboard that blocks keylogging. There is also a wallet feature for saving credit card numbers, as well as Bitdefender’s Safepay, a sandboxed environment primarily for conducting online financial transactions. The next left rail menu option takes you to the Privacy section, where you can set up a file vault for encrypted files. In time you can, once they actually have something to report, but at first they’re just “dead” tiles with no information. When I first saw the interface, I expected to be able to click on these tiles. These tiles tell you whether Bitdefender has taken any action on your PC. There are also three status tiles for Bitdefender’s app protection, file protection, and web protection features.
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