BANGALORE: The web is arguably a dangerous place with viruses, hackers, spyware, malware and phishing sites; and every PC, laptops or your smartphones need effective and powerful antivirus software to stay protected.

Understanding the necessity, we have compiled some of the most powerful Antivirus software of 2014 based on the tips from the linustechtips website.

# Bit Defender

Bit defender anti-virus is the best around with the most simple user interface with a very few manual controls. It provides a very effective, much needed virus scan that is done automatically providing real time updates and with anti phishing protection added to it. The software is compact, takes less time for the installation, and lacks settings with not many scan types on it.

Bit defender also extends its protection to the hard disks drives and USB flash drives keeping all the devices around secured. This is not all; the antivirus also offers all the protection you need according to the growing trends like Facebook monitoring, Full time parental control features, private data protection and lot more.

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