Data antivirus detects and eliminates malicious software – known as malware – from your computers or laptops. This malware is designed to damage your device or take information. Malware can be downloaded onto your computer via an email attachment or USB drive or even a fraudulent website.
Malware usually hides in files that your antivirus software recognises as harmful, and most anti-virus programs use three different methods to detect it specifically. They look for virus signatures (unique sequences of bytes that are used to identify the malware); general detection, which is a process of searching for malicious code fragments found in other viruses; and heuristic detection that analyzes suspicious file structures. Some of the best antivirus programs combine these methods to protect you against a wide range of threats.
G DATA combines these with other features, including parental control to limit kids’ internet usage and banking security that stops hackers from stealing your bank or online shopping information; cloud backup that keeps encrypted files on servers, not in the device itself; and iOS security that checks apps for potentially harmful content. The firewall that monitors both incoming and outgoing data for hackers; a phishing blocker that prevents criminals from accessing your data through websites they control and an anti-ransomware function that prevents hackers from encrypting your files.
G DATA has an excellent safe cloud storage real-world protection score. This means it’s unlikely to misinterpret normal files as malicious ones, and it has a minimal impact on your device performance, so it shouldn’t consume a lot of your computer’s resources. Its pricing starts at $40 per year for just one device, and goes up to a reasonable $72 per year for five devices.