Bitdefender 2013 – Search Advisor: Improves Online Threat Protection

What would be the point of having all the latest technology protecting your computer and data if you, oblivious to the danger, just happened to do an internet search and visited a website that was loaded with malware? The point would be that you would open yourself up to a phishing, scam and malware storm. 

So, how do you avoid such sites? How are you meant to know which sites are dodgy and which are safe to use? Three words: Bitdefender Search Advisor.

Available in all three versions of Bitdefender 2013 (Antivirus, Internet Security and Total Security), Search Advisor is a link filter that trawls through your internet search results for dangerous links. Relying on intelligence provided by Bitdefender Cloud services, Search Advisor flags phishing and malware attempts in your search engine results, warning you of potential danger lurking in seemingly innocent websites. 

Search Advisor is compatible with all web browsers and checks the results of major search engines (Google, Bing and Yahoo! being the most popular); warning icons are added to search results that may yield malicious content, improving your online threat protection and making it apparent which sites are best avoided:

- Malware websites (likely to be infected with a virus/ contain infected links)

- Phishing websites (try to steal your personal/ confidential data)

- Proxy websites (used to mask malicious/ infected websites)

- Untrusted websites (promoted through scams, reported by Bitdefender users as unsafe or known for scams and fraudulent schemes) - fake banks, lottery scams, donation scams, shipping scams, money makers, pharmaceutical scams, cheap software, replica shops, fake shops, loan scams*. 

                                                                                                    

Search Advisor Results:

     

       Safely access the link.

       Bad idea to access the link. If your browser of choice is Firefox or IE, any attempt to open the link will result in the page being blocked automatically:

 
Bitdefender 2013 really has you covered; every possible point of entry for malware and phishing attempts has been safeguarded - even accidentally stumbling into dangerous territory has been taken into account. 

*Keep an eye out for a post on how these scams are run.