G Data offers a wide range of features that you would expect from a comprehensive software suite. This includes a simple, plain-looking opening screen that doesn’t confuse users by obscuring the security status with a „Protected!” caption or a green tick like a lot of other programs.
The program is also good at blocking new malware and detecting it. The 'virus monitor’ that directs your internet traffic through G Data’s cloud platform not only updates the virus definition file it also detects and block malware based upon its behavior. G Data blocked all of the new malware that was not known to us that we threw at it during our tests. There was only one false positive.
In AV Comparatives offline detection test, G Data scored even better than Bitdefender’s cousin did. This is likely due to G Data’s own DeepRay engine that detects malware disguised as camouflaged by analyzing the actions the malware tries to perform. It looks for patterns that indicate malicious intention. For instance, it can detect changes to the settings of other programs, or observing keystrokes.
However the program does fall short in some areas that we consider essential for an antivirus software suite. It doesn’t hugedatainfo.com/nordvpn-netflix offer a firewall, VPN, or parental controls. If you want those extras you’ll have to buy G Data’s more expensive Internet Security package. This could be a major disadvantage, particularly since top-of-the-line competitors such as Norton 360 and Bitdefender offer them for a similar price or less.