The premium suite adds system optimisation, anti-theft, startup booster and disk clean-up tools, but frankly all of these jobs can be done very satisfactorily with free tools. In truth, there's so much here that it makes the pricier Bitdefender Total Security package wholly redundant. Throw in a vulnerability scanner, anti-spam and anti-phishing modules, a file encryption tool, a secure browser for banking and online shopping and a simple parental control system (which also works on Android) and you've got one of the richest feature sets on the market. You also get webcam protection, which lets you individually block apps that try to access your camera, plus browser extensions that put green ticks (or red crosses) next to search results from Google, Bing and Yahoo!, so you don't even need to put the software's web-based threat detection to the test. Different performance and security settings can be configured for each, and you can let Bitdefender intelligently guess when to switch profiles, or configure it to apply a particular one whenever you're using a specific app. Many security products feature a 'game mode', which suspends interruptions and CPU-heavy processes when you're playing a game Bitdefender goes four better, with a set of profiles tailored to working, movie-watching, gaming, working over a public Wi-Fi network and running on battery power respectively. Then there's Bitdefender's flexible profile system.

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