Bitdefender Free Edition

It eschews shoddy trialware, limited functionality, ads and other annoyances for just really good protection.

FREE | WWW.BITDEFENDER.COM.AU While ploughing through all the usual suspects to find the best free anti-malware package, we came to several disturbing (and yet liberating) conclusions. The first was that literally all of the feature-packed free versions are annoying at best and dishonest at worst. Some flash up ads, others install affiliate shopping links (that they call ‘safe shopping’), many offer performance scans for free but are rendered utterly pointless as the fix requires payment. Others offer VPN features with so little free data that they’re borderline useless without subscribing to a premium version. “Bitdefender’s Free Edition offers all of its group-test winning core security features for free and nothing else.” In practically every case, you can find much better, third-party applications without going through this rigmarole that…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2019

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