Click on Custom Scan and a Finder window appears letting you choose a folder to scan. Otherwise, clicking the scan button starts a full scan. If you select the Settings cog in the upper right corner, it opens a preferences window with very straightforward and minimal settings for the antivirus. This window also contains the quarantine and application logs. On the Windows side, however, Bullguard is doing very well. It scored percent and In my own spot check of common malware for Mac, Bullguard had no trouble identifying the samples and quarantining them as soon as they were unzipped.
With that basic test out of the way we went hunting for live malware, and ran across a fake Flash installer on a torrenting website. However, I was still able to install the phony Flash program.
Then you have to ignore a number of other warnings from the OS before finally installing the questionable program. There is a nice game booster feature for keeping you safe while you play your favorite games without subjecting you to endless firewall messages. It optimizes your game to run in a secure environment without system degradation. For more information on the differences, check out our VPN vs.
Proxy vs. Tor article. The big jump in value comes between BullGuard Antivirus and BullGuard Internet Security, with the addition of the firewall, parental controls and integrated cloud backup. The difference between Internet Security and Premium is limited to adding home network scanning and identity protection. Identity protection safeguards your personal information by scanning the internet for your usernames, email, phone numbers, credit card numbers, passwords and any other information you provide it.
When it detects that any of that information is posted online, it alerts then offers advice on a course of action.
The home network scanner accesses your entire network, including smart thermostats, baby monitors and all connected devices. When a new device is added to the network, it automatically detects and scans it for safety issues.
That gives you added protection for an additional five devices. Small tweaks can add a lot of responsiveness to your system and might be worth it in the long run. During installation, BullGuard Antivirus begins optimizing your system for performance without asking. Instead, it automatically launches as part of the install with no obvious way to opt out.
If it finds an infected file, it swings into action. Once a file is stopped, fixed or quarantined, you have to go to the messaging center to see the report. The information it provides here is minimal.
Check out our Avira review or Avast Pro review to see how an interface should work. The scan modes can be found on the antivirus page. You have to click the small horizontal lines in the bar for the full scan or quick scan to start it.
Scanning starts with the registry, and you can follow along with each file in the messaging center as the scan is running. The main screen shows a status bar for the scan or you can click the notifications to watch the details. On a Windows 10 laptop with basic Office software installed, along with a handful of programs such as GIMP and Skype, the full scan took over an hour.
During the initial full scan, the progress bar sat at the 99 percent mark for over 30 minutes, out of a total scan time of an hour and 16 minutes. Progress bars should be at least a little accurate. Antivirus protection is where we focus a lot of our attention.
Malware downloads, whether manual or drive-by, phishing, ransomware, safe browsing and vulnerability scanners constitute the bulk of our concerns. The other two found decent results. Lower scores are better because they mean fewer false positives. Out of the 18 antiviruses tested, results ranged from a low score of one to a high of BullGuard Internet Security had Bullguard has all the features you could want in a PC security suite, including disk scans, vulnerability alerts, home network monitoring, parental controls, and backups.
But it could zap a bit of performance from mid-range PCs, and its security alerts can be a little overzealous. Bullguard tries to be a very simple desktop application to navigate and understand. For the most part it succeeds, though you do have to get used to its logic. The tiles are not clickable as you might expect. Note: This review is part of our best antivirus roundup. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them. For day-to-day operations, the Antivirus and Firewall sections are pretty much trouble-free and can take care of themselves unless you want to run a manual scan.
This section can also let you know if you have any open ports, with detailed information such as which programs have them open. You can send your backups to Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and local external storage—either wired or on your home network. If you have kids, Parental Controls makes it easy to set profiles based on separate Windows user accounts on your PC. Bullguard offers age-appropriate preset profiles that are completely customizable for scheduling computer access at certain times each day, restricting access to specific applications, and blocking specific websites.
In fact, running Bullguard while I was playing a resource intensive game resulted in a noticeable frame-rate drop on my mid-range PC.
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