There’s also a new Ransomware Remediation feature, which attempts to revert any files that were encrypted due to ransomware. This automated system is supposed to watch out for brute-force entry attempts to your PC, botnet attacks, and threats to your sensitive information. New to the 2019 edition is Network Threat Prevention-you can find it under Protection > Online Threat Prevention > Settings > Network threat prevention. Protection is still the meat and potatoes of Bitdefender with all its various scans and real-time protection features. The Protection menu in Bitdefender Total Security 2019. It wasn’t long before Autopilot suggested running the Optimizer again to clean up the items I’d left untouched. After running Bitdefender’s Oneclick Optimizer, for example, I decided not to erase my cookies and history in Chrome and Firefox. The one drawback to the 2019 version of Autopilot is that it’s not as smart as I would like.

You can also disable the Autopilot pop-ups under Settings > General if you prefer. If you’re wondering whether you should take any actions to protect your PC, just head over to the Dashboard.Īutopilot doesn’t mean Bitdefender won’t offer suggestions via pop-ups (it will), but if you miss them, they all can be found in the Autopilot section of the Dashboard. It’s still something that other suites also do, but the nice thing here is that your recommendations are centralized in one place. Instead of handling everything for you, it’s acting more like an automated assistant-Bitdefender calls it your “personal security advisor”-suggesting actions you should take to protect and maintain your computer, such as running the one-click optimizer or updating Windows. In 2019, Autopilot makes a little more sense. I wasn’t a big fan of this feature in the 2018 version, because it seemed to me it was just doing what every antivirus suite does, such as carrying out real-time antivirus and firewall protection. The very top of the Dashboard is dedicated solely to Bitdefender’s Autopilot. IDGīitdefender’s Autopilot suggests actions to keep your PC safe.

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The Dashboard takes a maximum of five tiles, so you can only add one extra tile, and then you’ll have to modify the others. If you want to add more tiles to the interface there’s also an Add a Quick Action tile.

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