Hands on: G Data Total Security review
This comment first appeared in Issue 355 PC Pro.
If your priority is to stay safe, there are two good reasons to choose G data total protection: its twins Malware Detection engine. G Data combines its own engine with the BitDefender’s engine, which is also reliable in performance, helping to keep these detection scores high.
It is more famous among the natives of Germany than in the UK, which is why it has not been tested so extensively; the UK-based SE Labs does not test G data, even in AVETS (headquartered in Austria) we have to go back By February 2023 to obtain 100% protection results.
Located in Germany, AV-Comparivate is unsurprisingly covering G data, providing a strong range of scores, though not the best. Recently, it has a stable 99.6% protection rating with eight false positives. This is just a clean scan we saw last year, but if you’ve used G data for the past 12 months, you’re unlikely to experience a malware infection.
If you are worried, there are no shortage of scanning options. You can run or schedule a complete malware scan, or scan specific files or directories, computer memory and startup processes, removable media, and also check for Rootkits. Additional options under Virus Protection allow you to access quarantine files or burn bootable rescue images to a CD or USB drive.
There are no significant changes in the overall protection function of G data, because Last year’s commentboth good and bad. For example, it’s nice to prompt you to install the plugin for Edge, but you’ll find references to Internet Explorer scattered throughout the G data suite. In fact, some parts of the application are targeted Windows operating system It has been a long life for years and contains additional features suitable for older ones Personal computer Hardware configuration. Interrupted browsers, applications, and web services appear in configuration settings and other software tools, although disk shards will at least automatically exclude drives it detected. SSD. You can cover this, but we strongly recommend you to object.
As we observed last year, parent controls include options to block all SSL sites (also known as most modern internet). Otherwise they will work as you expect, but this still doesn’t help Microsoft Home is safe unless you don’t want to create a Microsoft account for your child. G Data’s password manager is particularly poor, recorded to a minimum, but still only plugins Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Use a dedicated password manager instead.
It’s even smarter that while many people are still on a modest Internet connection and require as little download latency as possible, the G Data Web Protection tool only checks for downloads up to 10MB by default. These files will also be checked after downloading them, but you may want to disable this option if you have a fast PC and Internet connection matching.
G data Firewall Simple and easy to use, the default autopilot hassle-free. this Backup The tool supports differential and incremental backups of any selected files and folders, by schedules of your choice, physical media, network location, or synchronous storage drives.
Surprisingly, if you are in the UK, the G data will be sold to you in US dollars, which means $50 for one device subscription, $66 for three devices, and $82 for five devices. Whether you buy from a third-party retailer (good luck) or directly from G data, there is no hidden price increase after the first year of subscription, which is a real advantage over competitors.
G data total security is a premium version of the company Antivirus software Software, available on Windows and MacOS, with iOS and Android apps Go with it. But, in fact, we recommend you buy G Data Internet Security ($40) as this gives you a powerful antivirus engine, as well as firewalls, isolation, cross-platform protection and parental control – no performance tuning and encryption tools required, Or password manager is clumsy. You’ve missed the device access controls and backup tools, one of the best access tools we have built into AV suites, but don’t forget that Dopleicati is free.
In fact, we still find the customer’s old-fashioned look cute and loves all the little touches – like USB KeyLogger detection and the ability to include only certain security suites when installed – but it can do this with updates Windows 11 Times (and Windows 10 era), especially in its privacy tools.
However, G data can directly, effectively and inexpensively protect malware and other threats to the system, making it one of our favorite security suites despite its quirks.
