BullGuard Internet Security is now stronger multi-layered protection, for you and yours. Your email address will not be published. Shan ali [ Reply ]. Sam [ Reply ]. If you already own a Windows license your Mac is a secondary machine, it might be worth it to add Bullguard to your Mac. Before diving deep into this, a note: Bullguard was recently acquired by Avira. A few months before that, Avira itself was snapped up by NortonLifeLock. In other words, Bullguard is now owned by a subsidiary of Norton, and that may translate into a complete overhaul of Bullguard at some point.
Then again, with three different antivirus brands under one roof, you have to wonder how long all of these different products will last. Note: This review is part of our best antivirus roundup. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them. Bullguard for Mac is unbelievably simple—perhaps too simple. 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. BullGuard couldn't do that, and our four files were effectively trashed. Still, many antiviruses miss our simulator entirely, allowing it to encrypt thousands of file. We'd like to see file recovery support, but in the meantime, if we had a ransomware attack and lost only four documents, that would mostly feel like a success.
BullGuard Antivirus is lightweight, configurable, and has an unusual speedup extra in its Game Booster. Protection isn't quite leading edge, but it delivered solid results in our tests, and the package did a better than average job in keeping us safe. BullGuard Internet Security builds on the basics-only BullGuard Antivirus with a stack of new features, including a firewall, parental controls, cloud integrated backup supports Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and basic PC optimization.
Platform support is extended to cover Android and Mac, as well as Windows. BullGuard Internet Security and Premium Protection also include a Secure Browser, a customized version of Chromium which uses multiple layers of security to keep you safe online.
Extra security layers block malicious URLs, check site certificates, and encrypt your internet history to keep it safe from snoopers. BullGuard's VPN can be launched from the interface, as well, if you've a license to use it.
Unlike Kaspersky, Bitdefender and others, BullGuard doesn't have a limited free version of its VPN, and although there's a 7-day trial available, you have to be an existing BullGuard customer to get it. A day trial build gives you a quick and easy way to find out if this is the right antivirus for you. That should be long enough, but even if you run into problems later, you're further protected by a day money-back guarantee.
BullGuard Internet Security has all the core BullGuard Antivirus functionality, and it looks and feels much the same. It's lightweight, for instance, and in normal situations made little or no impact on our system performance.
Scanning speeds are a little faster than average, there are some useful configuration options, and the antivirus engine provided capable protection in the latest AV-Test results and during our own checks. The self-protection issues we noticed in the last review have been fixed, too, and we couldn't find any malware might be able to compromise BullGuard's security.
The dashboard still looks a little cluttered, with ten tiles pointing you to its various function areas. But at least most of these are available for use the Identity Protection and Home Network Scanner features are only available if you upgrade to BullGuard Premium Security, and BullGuard VPN is licensed separately , and there's certainly plenty to explore here.
BullGuard Internet Security includes a firewall which blocks for network attacks, and sort-of controls access to your internet connection. We say 'sort of' because although the firewall allows known safe processes to get online automatically, it asks the user about anything it doesn't recognize. That's an issue, both because it's difficult for even experts to tell which processes are legitimate, and, if users are prompted like this regularly, it's tempting to keep hitting the 'it's fine' button without really paying attention.
We prefer more intelligent firewalls, like Bitdefender and Kaspersky's offerings, which make these decisions themselves. Aside from this limitation, the firewall does a decent job, blocking most attacks and providing plenty of configuration options if you need them. BullGuard Internet Security comes with a 'cloud integrated' backup feature. It's an application, not a service - there's no web space included - but otherwise it covers all the core basics.
Customizable backups enable choosing what you'd like to back up, for instance, from common user folders to whatever else you might need. Backup destinations include your Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive holders, or your choice of external drive. A simple scheduler enables running backups automatically, and there are a handful of useful settings covering compression, encryption and versioning. Norton 's plans go a step beyond BullGuard by providing their own web space 10, 50 or GB.
And experienced users looking for a backup tool could do better with the best-of-breed freeware. But the feature works well enough for simple tasks, and having the app available from the same interface as the rest of the suite means it's certainly convenient to use. BullGuard's Parental Controls module uses a range of tricks and technologies to protect your kids online. Website filtering blocks sites by your choice of category adult, social media, chat, gambling - 24 in total.
You're also able to create custom whitelists and blacklists of sites which should never or always be blocked. We found this worked in a basic way, but had some unexpected side-effects. When we launched Corel's PaintShop Pro, for instance, a Parental Controls alert told us it had blocked the application, apparently as it checked for updates. The alert didn't give us any clue about why this happened, so diagnosing the issue could take a while.
Application control enables blocking specific apps from running. The module covers a dated-looking list of chat apps by default it includes Google Talk rather than Hangouts, for instance , but you can change that, or add any other apps you'd like to protect. The Privacy control feature aims to prevent your child sharing key personal details online names, phone numbers, credit card information, addresses and more.
This didn't always work for us, blocking the transmission of names but failing to recognize a telephone number. A scheduler enables limiting access to the internet, or your entire PC, to specific time of day or with a maximum time limit.
It works, but doesn't give you much control. Time allowances can only be set in whole hours, for instance, and must start and end on the hour. Forget 'am to am', for instance - is the nearest you can get.
Choose your preferred settings in all areas and you're able to apply them to your child's Windows user account. BullGuard's Mobile Security has its own features, including the ability to monitor pictures stored or received on your child's phone, and an option to track where your child's device is.
But it doesn't synchronize with the main Parental Control service, so for instance you can't set up rules in one place that apply across all your child's devices. Much like BullGuard's firewall and backup modules, the Parental Control module is mostly about the basics.
It can perform some useful tasks, but most users are likely to be left wanting more. BullGuard offers banking protection via its Secure Browser, a customized version of Chromium which the company says, 'enables a safer way to browse the Internet and a much safer platform from which to make online payments.
How is it safer, exactly? The website explains that Secure Browser doesn't 'load' cookies or extensions, perhaps reducing the chance of any privacy leaks. Using Chromium as a base means you lose multiple layers of Google Chrome telemetry, too optional features, like crash reporting, which send data back to Google. The added encryption makes it more difficult for snoopers to monitor your browsing, and it also limits MITM attacks where, for instance, a rogue wifi hotspot might redirect you to a malicious website.
It even uses the BullGuard Safe Browsing engine to keep users away from malicious websites. This is a lengthy feature list, but it's not quite as convenient as the banking protection we see from some competitors. Bitdefender's Safepay is a custom browser with a password manager, for instance, a major plus when you're accessing such important sites. Alternatively, Kaspersky's Safe Money protects your existing browser, no need to use anything else.
Still, Secure Browser is a capable tool which makes real efforts to live up to its name, and if you're willing to use another browser for your most sensitive transactions, it could be useful. An Optimize feature can delete junk Windows and third-party files, clear your browser cache, remove invalid shortcuts and defragment the Registry. It's easy to use, but the freeware CCleaner gave us more control and freed up more files on our test system 26GB vs The Cleanup Helper can also remove junk files, though apparently less effectively it didn't find as many leftovers as the Optimize module.
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