BitDefender Online

BitDefender online systems and scanners will give you the edge in portability and convenience when checking the safety of your files from viruses and other malicious software. Although this particular piece of BitDefender’s antivirus program is available on the Internet for free, it doesn’t mean that it’s less stringent in its protection methods or gives you less protection than the traditional downloaded software.

But first, what are the general rules for keeping your computer sane from all the malware floating around? What preventive steps can we take to ensure our system is adequately protected? Here are just a few of the most important tips to weed out and keep out viruses.
1)    See those spammy chain-mails? You’ve probably received tons of that in your job, or just even once in your lifetime, if you have an E-mail account. Aside from giving you the frowns, chain-mails have a high probability of carrying Trojan horse viruses, worms, spyware code, and other destructive programs. While obviously a spiritually-toned message might get you warmed up at the start of your work day, you won’t be so warmed up when a worm hits your hard drive. Either delete those chain-mails or don’t forward them.

2)    You might get a number of E-mails that have suspicious messages and attachments in them, or E-mails from unsolicited sources. We all know that when we were young, we were given a general rule of thumb: don’t talk to strangers, and never entertain them in your own home. Well, E-mails from unknown sources are kind of like those mythical strangers. Don’t entertain them by opening them, or if you want to find out their contents, save them into your hard drive and scan them with your trusted antivirus scanner.

3)    Of course, before making a lot of E-mail traffic, acquire a good antivirus program; one that has a comprehensive firewall protection. A good firewall not only checks incoming the data stream from outside sources, but also when you’re sending data into the Internet stream. A better firewall is more ubiquitous: aside from continuously monitoring system activity in the background, its scanning reaches to your online file-sharing activities, like downloading E-mail and transferring files from online FTP sites.
It is essential to be proactive in finding protection for your computer and not just sit around waiting for something bad to happen. A great antivirus program will pick out spyware and malware, and obliterate them with minimal user intervention. Although antivirus software is upgrading every month and there seems to be no end to the onslaught of viruses and worms, be protected. Even a poor antivirus scanner is better than nothing at all.

The BitDefender online scanner is a free version of the award-winning BitDefender antivirus series. The main advantage of the online scanner is its convenience and its zero demand for system requirements. With an online scanner, you don’t need to go through the hassle of installing a full antivirus program. You need not even go through messy uninstallation procedures if you’ve grown unsatisfied with the product. The BitDefender online scanner gives you complete protection of a traditional virus scanner while being light on system requirements.