Free BitDefender

The free BitDefender antivirus version is available for anyone who wants to try out the functionality of BitDefender suite of antivirus tools without shelling anything monetary. The free BitDefender software allows you to find out what the full version of BitDefender’s antivirus tools can do at the most basic level.

Free versions, like trial versions, are created with the customer’s eventual purchase in mind. That is why these versions are created with the kind of sales strategy found in take-away sales special offers. The trial version is built with a deadline, allowing the prospective user to take advantage of its functions within that scope of time. Most of these allow for a trial period of 30 days or less. Within that time span, regular offers for full product subscription from the manufacturing company are marketed out to the user for the user to consider. The expiry deadline only heightens the sense of urgency and need of the potential buyer.

The free versions however, like the free BitDefender basic antivirus tool, sport no expiry date, allowing the potential customer to use the antivirus software indefinitely. It still carries the same basic functions of the full product. Yet, the lack of further upgrades, perks, functions, features, and components in the free antivirus version that are present in the full product will prompt the user to buy the more complete version — albeit in a subliminal way.
Perks of the Free BitDefender Version

Aside from the basic but robust antivirus scanning engine, the free BitDefender edition also sports additional features, such as:
•    Proactive Detection Engine – most of the top-level BitDefender antivirus editions come with the B-HAVE, or the Behavioral Heuristic Analyzer in Virtual Environments. If that term is simply a mouthful, it pays well to know that BitDefender installs a virtual machine inside your computer and then analyzing various programs and codes for malware-like behavior. It tests programs, detects suspicious-looking code, and places it under quarantine for further purging.

The B-HAVE does this by adding a new security layer in your computer and watching out for potential malware threats which do not have any digital signatures yet.

•    Spyware Removal – Relying on a continually updated list of spyware signatures, the spyware removal facility of BitDefender ensures that your personal computer is free from these malware that gathers your personal information and spit them back out into the open Web.

•    Privacy Protection – Aside from removing spyware, the free BitDefender version also does proactive protection on your online personal information, scanning the Web and E-mail information for credit card numbers, financial information, accounts, and passwords, and protects them against intruders.

•    Rootkit Removal – Rootkits are new and intelligent malware programs that are designed to infect the computer and gain some level of control over the entire computer system. Purge your computer of these rootkits through the free BitDefender version’s anti-rootkit feature.

•    Hourly Updates – Of course, an antivirus program will not do well if it doesn’t have an updated registry of known viruses. Virus list updates are one of the most underrated but crucial operations that antivirus program do. The free BitDefender version updates its database not weekly, not daily, but on an hourly basis.
We know what you’re thinking. Using a free BitDefender antivirus edition is pretty much like using a regular antivirus product without the price.