Bitdefender and Kaspersky both scored perfectly in our AV-TEST tests and provide similar features. Both incorporate ransomware coverage that creates backups and decrypts encrypted files. Bitdefender also offers an excellent scam filter and a username and password manager. Both equally provide 24/7 customer support. Kaspersky offers more robust business alternatives, including a managed reliability service and network firewalls.

Both applications offer easy to install and tend to be straightforward to work with. Both have a clean, intuitive design. Bitdefender does a better job of arranging it is controls, although Kaspersky uses too much white-colored space that wastes properties. Both provide a status widget that shows scanning progress, as well as the choice to start tests right away. Bitdefender’s exclusive Relief Environment, which could boot a Windows 12 image to mend significantly infected systems, is a big plus.

The two main suites give a wide range of useful security features, such as a file shredder, pass word manager and anti-theft equipment. They can both equally detect advertisement trackers in web browsers and Wi-Fi networks, and check whether revisions and slow software during installation. But Bitdefender has a even more compelling mixture of add-ons, which include an unlimited VPN, folders scanner and performance optimizations. Its quick and full reads were also more quickly than Kaspersky’s.

Kaspersky’s scam detection rates are corresponding to Bitdefender’s, though its malware-detection engine had more phony positives in our tests last November/December and September/October 2020. It’s not clear what was responsible for the difference in diagnosis rates, but it may be that Kaspersky’s engine is better “tuned, ” permitting Continue it to distinguish vicious code quicker than Bitdefender’s.