Heimdal er en relativ nykommer på markedet for sikkerhedsprodukter. Tidligere tilbød de Heimdal Free og Heimdal PRO til hjemmebrugere. De var effektive produkter, der tilføjede nye lag af beskyttelse til eksisterende antivirusprodukter. Vi elskede at bruge dem, og vi anbefalede varmt Heimdal til alle vores læsere. Virksomheden har for nylig lanceret nye produkter med forskellige navne, som også inkluderer den traditionelle antivirusbeskyttelse, som de manglede tidligere. Vi har nu Heimdal Thor Free, Heimdal Thor Foresight, Heimdal Thor Vigilance og Heimdal Thor Premium Home. Læs denne anmeldelse og forstå, hvad der er forskelligt mellem alle disse produkter, hvor effektive de er til at beskytte din Windows-computer, og hvilken vi anbefaler, at du køber:

Hvad er Heimdal Thor Premium Home , Heimdal Thor Vigilance Home , Heimdal Foresight Home og Heimdal Thor Free ?

Heimdal Thor Premium Home er den bedste sikkerhedsapp skabt af Heimdal til hjemmebrugere, og den inkluderer følgende sikkerhedsmoduler:

1. Thor Foresight Home er et modul, der giver dig yderligere sikkerhedslag. Den scanner din computer for tredjepartsapps, der vides at have sikkerhedssårbarheder, og, hvis der findes nogen, opdaterer den automatisk til deres seneste versioner. Det kan også blokere indgående angreb, ransomware, banktrojanske heste, phishing-forsøg og så videre ved at scanne al din internettrafik ( HTTP , HTTPS og DNS ). Hvis du allerede er et offer, kan Thor Foresight Home også blokere kommunikationen mellem malware og cyberkriminelle-kontrollerede servere for at forhindre botnet-inkluderinger, datalækage, ransomware-opkald osv. Afslutningsvis kan Thor Foresight Homeer et sikkerhedsmodul, der tilbyder dig proaktiv beskyttelse, for at stoppe trusler, før de når din computer.
2. Thor Vigilance Home er antivirusmodulet bundtet af Heimdal Thor Premium Home , baseret på Avira antivirusmotoren. Antivirussen bruger både lokale og skybaserede virusdefinitioner og giver dig beskyttelse mod traditionelle malwaretrusler. Med andre ord tilbyder Thor Vigilance Home reaktiv beskyttelse mod trusler, der allerede har fundet vej til din computer, eller dem, du får adgang til i realtid.

Hvis du ikke har brug for alle funktionerne i Heimdal Thor Premium Home , kan du købe Thor Vigilance Home og kun få antivirusmodulet, eller Thor Foresight Home for kun at få det proaktive beskyttelseslag. Heimdal Thor Free inkluderer kun app-opdateringsmodulet.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home : Hvem er det godt for?

Heimdal Thor Premium Home er et sikkerhedsprodukt, der er fantastisk til folk, der ønsker at:

• Beskyt deres computere mod malware-angreb, der stammer fra internettet, ransomware, bank- og finansielle trojanske heste, virus, phishing-forsøg osv.
• Patch automatisk og hold sårbare apps opdaterede
• Stop deres personlige oplysninger i at blive stjålet og lækket online
• Bliv beskyttet mod malware-trusler, der allerede har fundet vej til deres computere, ved hjælp af dens indbyggede antivirusmotor

Fordele og ulemper

Vi sætter pris på følgende om Heimdal Thor Premium Home :

• Brugergrænsefladen ser god ud, og den er nem at bruge
• Det forbedrer din sikkerhed ved automatisk at patche mange af de almindeligt brugte, kendt for at være sårbare, tredjepartsapps
• Har en webscanningsmotor, der beskytter dig mod ondsindede websteder, før du når dem i dine webbrowsere og apps
• Hvis din pc bliver inficeret, kan Heimdal Thor Premium Home blokere internettrafik og forhindre hackere i at stjæle dine oplysninger. Det er især vigtigt, når du tænker på dine finansielle data og bankdata
• Den inkluderer en antivirusmotor, der tilbyder reaktiv beskyttelse, selv når det lykkedes for malware at komme ind på din computer

Vi identificerede også et par mindre positive aspekter:

• Der er for mange Thor- produkter med navne, der ikke gør det let for folk at forstå, hvad de laver, og hvordan de adskiller sig fra hinanden. Porteføljen af ​​Heimdal Thor produkter skal være nemmere at forstå.
• Thor Vigilance bør proaktivt bede brugere om at scanne flytbare drev, når de bliver tilsluttet deres pc'er
• Thor Vigilance er langsom til at scanne din computer for virus og anden malware

Dom

Heimdal Thor Premium Home er et innovativt sikkerhedsprodukt, med mange beskyttelseslag. Ønsker du den bedst mulige sikkerhed fra Heimdal , bør du overveje at købe det. De proaktive beskyttelsesfunktioner, som den inkluderer, er fremragende, da de dækker sikkerhedshuller, som normalt efterlades åbne af traditionelle antivirusprodukter. Selvom det nye Thor Vigilance antivirusmodul ikke er det bedste, vi har testet, er Heimdal Thor Premium Home -produktet som helhed et af de bedste produkter på markedet, der leverer komplet anti-malware-beskyttelse.

Hvilket Heimdal Thor- produkt skal jeg købe? Rabatkode^(Discount) tilgængelig!

Den nye portefølje af Heimdal Thor -produkter til hjemmebrugere kan være forvirrende. Hvis du allerede har et godt antivirus installeret, bør du købe Thor Foresight Home . Hvis du ikke har et antivirus, og du vil spare på omkostningerne til komplet antivirusbeskyttelse, så er Heimdal Thor Premium Home dit bedste valg. Vores læsere får en stor rabat på 60% for Heimdal Thor Premium Home og på 50% for Thor Foresight Home . Få rabatten her^{(discount here)} .

Download- og installationsoplevelsen

For at få Heimdal Thor Premium Home på din computer skal du først downloade det fra den officielle hjemmeside. Filen du downloader er en lille eksekverbar fil kaldet Heimdal.DeliveryLauncher.msi , med en størrelse på kun 756 KB. Starteren downloader de nødvendige filer til installationen. Du bør få omkring 42,8 MB filer fra Heimdals^(Heimdal) servere. Heimdal Thor Premium Home lader dig vælge det sprog, det bruger ( engelsk^(English) , tysk^(German) , dansk^(Danish) eller koreansk^(Korean) ). Du kan også vælge en brugerdefineret installationsplacering og sige, om du vil have en genvej til den placeret på dit skrivebord.

Når du accepterer dets licensvilkår, kan du aktivere produktet. Hvis du har købt en Home- eller Enterprise -licens, skal du indtaste din licensnøgle. Ellers kan du vælge at aktivere en prøveversion af Heimdal Thor Premium Home eller bruge den gratis^(Free) version, hvilket betyder, at du kun får app-patch-funktionen i Heimdal Thor Foresight - modulet, men ikke mere. For den gratis prøveversion eller den gratis version af Thor skal du kun angive en e-mailadresse.

Når aktiveringen er fuldført, fortæller guiden dig, hvornår licensen udløber, og du kan fortsætte med at installere softwaren.

Installationsprocessen tager et par sekunder fra start til slut. Når installationen er afsluttet, indlæser Heimdal Thor Premium Home sin brugergrænseflade og starter dens beskyttelsesprocesser. Der er ikke behov for en genstart.

Download- og installationsprocesserne for Heimdal er hurtige og nemme at gennemgå. Hvis du installerer Thor Premium-prøveversionen eller Thor Free-versionerne, er de eneste personlige oplysninger, du skal angive, en gyldig e-mailadresse. Hvis du installerer Thor Home Premium eller Enterprise, skal du også indtaste licensnøglen for at aktivere dit produkt.^{(The download and install processes for Heimdal are fast and easy to go through. If you are installing the Thor Premium Trial or the Thor Free versions, the only personal information you have to provide is a valid email address. If you are installing Thor Home Premium or Enterprise, you must also enter the license key to activate your product.)}

Brugervenlighed og konfiguration

Heimdal Thor Premium Homes brugergrænseflade ser ret godt ud, efter den flade designtrend, som vi ser overalt fra Windows 10 til Android . Brugergrænsefladen er opdelt i to hovedsektioner: Thor Foresight og Thor Vigilance . Thor Foresight viser, om din computer er sund eller ej, og giver dig detaljer og adgang til de forskellige funktioner i dette modul: DarkLayer Guard, Målrettede processer, Sandsynlighed for infektion^{(DarkLayer Guard, Targeted processes, Probability of infection)} og Softwareopdateringer^{(Software updates)} .

Thor Vigilance er den sektion, der findes i højre side af vinduet, og den viser, om den er aktiveret og fungerer godt. Det giver dig også adgang til dets vigtigste funktioner og handlinger. Du kan bruge den til at starte eller se, hvornår den sidste On Demand-scanning^{(On Demand Scan)} blev kørt, aktivere eller deaktivere realtidsbeskyttelsen^{(Real Time Protection)} , se antallet af infektioner^(Infections) og varer i karantæne^{(Quarantined)} fra de sidste 30 dage.

Både Thor Foresight og Thor Vigilance lader dig udløse manuelle scanninger med blot et klik eller tryk på knapperne Scan alligevel^{(Scan Anyway)} eller Hurtig scanning .^{(Quick Scan)}

Den centrale konsol ændrer også sin farve afhængigt af dit systems sundhedstilstand. For eksempel, hvis Heimdal Thor Premium Home finder tredjepartsapps, der skal lappes med opdateringer, bliver Thor Foresight - sektionen gul og fortæller dig, at "Din computer skal opdateres",^{("Your computer must be updated,")} som på skærmbilledet nedenfor.

Inde i Heimdal Thor Foresight - modulet er der tre store sikkerhedskomponenter: DarkLayer Guard, VectorN Detection og X-ploit Resilience . Lad os se, hvad hver af dem gør:

DarkLayer Guard er en to-vejs trafikscanningsmotor, der gør det muligt for Heimdal Thor Foresight at blokere netværkskommunikation, når den opdager zero-day exploits, ransomware, datalækage og næste generations angreb. Dark Layer Guard beskytter din pc mod angreb, før de kompromitterer den.

Thor Foresights VectorN Detection , ifølge Heimdal, "bruger Machine Learning-teknologi til at udføre en dybdegående analyse af al indgående og udgående HTTP-, HTTPS- og DNS-trafik." ^{("uses Machine Learning technology to perform an in-depth analysis of all incoming and outgoing HTTP, HTTPS, and DNS traffic.")}Det er designet til at analysere brugerens internettrafikmønstre for at identificere kendte og endnu ukendte malwareangreb. Med andre ord, det opdager og blokerer andengenerations malware.

Den tredje sikkerhedskomponent fra Thor Foresight hedder X-ploit Resilience . Det er ansvarligt for at holde dine tredjeparts-apps opdateret, opdateret med de seneste tilgængelige opdateringer. X-ploit Resilience viser alle tredjeparts apps, der er installeret og overvåget af Heimdal Thor Foresight . For hver af dem kan du se den installerede version, dens status og to forskellige flueben, et til at vælge, om du vil overvåge denne software, og et til at slå funktionen Autoopdatering ^(Autoupdate)til^(On) eller fra^(Off) .

Hvis en af ​​tredjepartsapps fra Heimdal Thor Foresights liste ikke er installeret på din computer, kan du også installere den ved hjælp af One Click App Install -funktionen. Vi kan godt lide denne lille detalje, da den giver dig mulighed for hurtigt at installere enhver af disse apps med blot et enkelt klik. Der er ingen grund til at gå til et bestemt websted for at downloade og installere appen. Hvis Heimdal Thor Foresight ved det, har den det.

Listen over tredjepartsapps, der understøttes af Heimdal Thor Foresights patching-system, er omfattende. Den kan nu overvåge over 70 tredjepartsapps. Selvom nogle af apps er forskellige versioner eller udgaver af den samme software, er listen ret lang, og den omfatter: 7-zip, Adobe Acrobat Reader , Adobe Acrobat Pro , Adobe AIR , Adobe Flash Player , Adobe Reader , Adobe Shockwave , Accordance , Audacity , Axure , Backup og synkronisering^(Sync) fra Google , Box Sync , Caliber^(Calibre) ,CCleaner , Chrome , Cisco WebEx Meeting Center , Classic Shell , Concierge Services Catering , Dropbox , Everything , FileZilla , Firefox , Foxit Reader , Garmin Express , Gimp , iTunes, Jabra Direct , Java og 8, Jitsi , KaBoo , Krita , Lenovo System Update , LibreOffice , Microsoft Power BI Desktop ,Microsoft Silverlight , NemID , Notepad++ , OpenOffice , Paint.Net , Picasa , Pidgin , Remote Desktop Manager , Skype , TeamViewer , Thunderbird , VirtualBox , VLC og WinRar .

Det andet modul fra Heimdal Thor Premium Home - Thor Vigilance - er en traditionel antivirusmotor baseret på Avira . Det kan bruges til at opdage og blokere malware, der allerede er på din computer, så det kan virke mod vira, trojanske heste, skadelige scripts, spywareprogrammer og andre. Thor Vigilance bruger malware-signaturer, der findes på dit system såvel som i skyen.

Selvom mange af beskyttelsesmodulerne, der findes i Heimdal Thor Premium Home , kan aktiveres eller deaktiveres direkte fra hovedgrænsefladen, inkluderer dette sikkerhedsprodukt også en række mere avancerede indstillinger^(Settings) . Du kan få adgang til dem ved at klikke på det lille tandhjul fra øverste højre hjørne af brugergrænsefladen. Du kan slå hovedmodulerne til^(On) eller fra^(Off) samt indstille hyppigheden af ​​scanninger for ting som patching af apps eller opdatering af virusdefinitioner.

Vi satte pris på, at Heimdal Thor Premium Home indeholder en række indstillinger, som du kan bruge til at justere antallet og typer af notifikationer, du modtager fra det. I sektionen Notifikationer^{(Notifications)} fra Indstillinger^(Settings) kan du slå ballonnotifikationen til^{(Balloon notification On)} eller fra^(Off) helt, men du kan også gå i detaljer og se, om du vil se notifikationer om ondsindet trafik, der er blevet blokeret, om softwareopdateringer, malware-infektioner eller sikkerhed nyhedsadvarsler.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home indeholder også nogle supportmuligheder^(Support) : åbn menuen fra den centrale konsol, og du kan derefter få adgang til deres undervisningsmateriale^{(Educational)} , FAQ (ofte stillede spørgsmål)^{(FAQ (Frequently asked questions))} , læse produktmanualerne eller, hvis du har brug for yderligere hjælp, kan du kontakte^(Contact) dem ved at sende en mail med en billetanmodning.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home tilbyder en brugerflade med et fladt design, der ser godt ud. Vi kunne godt lide, hvor nemt det er at arbejde med de forskellige tilgængelige moduler og funktioner, og vi er sikre på, at brugerne også vil blive glade.^{(Heimdal Thor Premium Home offers a user interface with a flat design that looks good. We liked how easy it is to work with the various modules and features available, and we are sure that users will be pleased too.)}

Hvor godt beskytter Heimdal Thor Premium Home dig?

Heimdal Thor Premium Home fungerer ved at tilføje en række ekstra lag af sikkerhed oven på din antivirusløsning eller sammen med Thor Vigilance (antivirusmotoren, der er en del af Thor Premium Home ), alt sammen for at beskytte dig mod cybertrusler. Lad os tage et kig på hver af disse sikkerhedsfunktioner og se, om de fungerer som annonceret:

De første beskyttelseslag, der tilbydes af Heimdal Thor Premium Home , er modulerne DarkLayer Guard^{(DarkLayer Guard)} og VectorN . De analyserer al trafikken på din computer og tjekker, om de websteder, du forsøger at indlæse, er kendt for at indeholde skadeligt indhold. Hvis de opdager noget farligt, forsøger Heimdal at stoppe truslerne, før de når din computer.

For at teste effektiviteten af ​​dette sikkerhedsprodukt brugte vi alle de populære webbrowsere ( Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera og Internet Explorer) og forsøgte at indlæse en række websteder, der vides at være phishing-svindel eller har ondsindet indhold. Vores resultater var positive, og vi kan bekræfte, at Heimdal Thor formåede at blokere alle de ondsindede websteder, som vi forsøgte at få adgang til. Det fungerede som det skulle have i alle de webbrowsere, vi testede.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home inkluderer også Thor Vigilance , som er en antivirusmotor designet til at reagere, når der allerede findes malware på din pc, eller når din computer allerede er inficeret.

Til det startede vi med at tjekke, hvordan det håndterer inficerede malware-filer, der er gemt på flytbare drev. Vi placerede en masse vira på en USB -hukommelsesstick og sluttede den derefter til vores testcomputer. Desværre har Thor Vigilance ikke automatisk scannet memory stick'en, og den spurgte os heller ikke, om vi ville scanne den. Vi besluttede at køre en brugerdefineret scanning for at se, om den identificerede de ondsindede filer, vi havde på den stick. Det lykkedes Thor Vigilance^{(Thor Vigilance)} at identificere dem alle og flyttede dem prompte ind i karantænen.

Dernæst tog vi vores testcomputer og installerede en ren version af Windows 10 , vi lappede den med alle tilgængelige systemopdateringer, og så installerede vi en hel række virus på den. Vi bad Heimdal Thor Premium Home om at installere sig selv og rense vores computer. Vi var glade for at se, at pakken ikke havde problemer med at installere og starte sine beskyttelsestjenester. Vi var også glade for at se, at den var i stand til at opdage og fjerne al malware på systemet.

En anden vigtig funktion, når det kommer til at evaluere ydeevnen af ​​en antivirusmotor, er, hvor hurtig den er, når den scanner for malware. Derfor målte vi den hastighed, hvormed Heimdal Thor Vigilance scannede vores 137GB systempartition med 75GB filer på. Det tog 18 minutter i gennemsnit, hvilket er ret langsomt.

På tidspunktet for denne anmeldelse kan Heimdal Thor Premium Home overvåge og automatisk patche over 70 forskellige tredjeparts apps. Listen omfatter udbredte programmer, der er kendt for at være sårbare, og som normalt er målrettet af malware og hackere. Vi ønskede at se, om Heimdal Thor Premium Home faktisk opdaterer de programmer, der findes på denne liste over kritiske applikationer. Så vi brugte vores testcomputer, der kørte på Windows 10 , og vi installerede gamle versioner af et par af de programmer, der findes i Heimdal Thor Foresights liste. Derefter så vi, hvad Heimdal Thor Foresight gør. Det opdagede og begyndte straks at opdatere de gamle apps. På kun et par minutter var de alle sammen lappet.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home holder sit ord og leverer, hvad det lover. Vi fandt, at det var et effektivt produkt i vores test. De eneste ting, der bør forbedres, er scanningshastigheden, som Thor Vigilance-antivirusmotoren tilbyder, og det faktum, at den ikke spørger, om du vil scanne flytbare drev eller ej.^{(Heimdal Thor Premium Home keeps its word and delivers what it promises. We found it to be an effective product in our testing. The only things that should be improved are the scanning speed offered by the Thor Vigilance antivirus engine, and the fact that it does not ask whether you want to scan removable drives or not.)}

Hvad synes du om Heimdal Thor Premium Home ?

Nu ved du, hvad Heimdal Thor Premium Home er og gør. Du har også set, hvordan det klarede sig i vores test, og du kender vores mening om dette sikkerhedsprodukt. Inden du lukker denne anmeldelse, del din mening om den i kommentarfeltet nedenfor. Kan du lide, hvad det har at tilbyde? Overvejer^(Are) du at købe en Heimdal Thor Premium Home licens?

Security for everyone - Reviewing Heimdal Thor Premium Home

Heimdal is a relative newcomer to the market of security products. In the past, they оffered Heimdal Free and Heimdal PRO to home users. They were efficient products, that added new layers of protection to existing antivirus products. We loved using them, and we highly recommended Heimdal to all our readers. The company has recently launched new products, with different names, that also include the traditional antivirus protection that they lacked in the past. We now have Heimdal Thor Free, Heimdal Thor Foresight, Heimdal Thor Vigilance, and Heimdal Thor Premium Home. Read this review and understand what is different between all these products, how efficient they are in protecting your Windows computer, and which one we recommend that you buy:

What are Heimdal Thor Premium Home, Heimdal Thor Vigilance Home, Heimdal Foresight Home, and Heimdal Thor Free?

Heimdal Thor Premium Home is the top security app created by Heimdal for home users, and it includes the following security modules:

1. Thor Foresight Home is a module that provides you with additional security layers. It scans your computer for third-party apps that are known to have security vulnerabilities and, if any are found, automatically updates them to their latest versions. It can also block incoming attacks, ransomware, banking trojans, phishing attempts, and so on, by scanning all your internet traffic (HTTP, HTTPS, and DNS). If you are already a victim, Thor Foresight Home can also block the communications between malware and cybercriminal-controlled servers, to prevent botnet inclusions, data leakage, ransomware dial back, etc. In conclusion, Thor Foresight Home is a security module that offers you proactive protection, to stop threats before they reach your computer.
2. Thor Vigilance Home is the antivirus module bundled by Heimdal Thor Premium Home, based on the Avira antivirus engine. The antivirus uses both local and cloud-based virus definitions, and provides you with protection against traditional malware threats. In other words, Thor Vigilance Home offers reactive protection against threats that have already found their way onto your computer, or those that you are accessing in real-time.

If you do not need all the features of Heimdal Thor Premium Home, you can buy Thor Vigilance Home and get only the antivirus module, or Thor Foresight Home to get only the proactive protection layer. Heimdal Thor Free includes just the app-updater module.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home: Who is it good for?

Heimdal Thor Premium Home is a security product that is great for people who want to:

• Protect their computers from malware attacks originating on the internet, ransomware, banking and financial trojans, viruses, phishing attempts, etc.
• Automatically patch and keep vulnerable apps up-to-date
• Stop their personal information from being stolen and leaked online
• Be protected from malware threats that have already found their way onto their computers, using its built-in antivirus engine

Pros and cons

We appreciate the following about Heimdal Thor Premium Home:

• The user interface looks good, and it is easy to use
• It enhances your security by automatically patching many of the commonly used, known to be vulnerable, third-party apps
• Has a web scanning engine that protects you against malicious websites before you reach them in your web browsers and apps
• If your PC gets infected, Heimdal Thor Premium Home can block internet traffic and stop hackers from stealing your information. That is especially important when you consider your financial and banking data
• It includes an antivirus engine that offers reactive protection even when malware managed to get on your computer

We identified a couple of less positive aspects too:

• There are too many Thor products, with names that do not make it easy for people to understand what they do and how they differ from one another. The portfolio of Heimdal Thor products should be simpler to understand.
• Thor Vigilance should proactively ask users to scan removable drives when they get plugged into their PCs
• Thor Vigilance is slow to scan your computer for viruses and other malware

Verdict

Heimdal Thor Premium Home is an innovative security product, with many protection layers. If you want the best possible security from Heimdal, you should consider purchasing it. The proactive protection features that it includes are excellent, as they cover security gaps usually left open by traditional antivirus products. While the new Thor Vigilance antivirus module is not the best that we have tested, the Heimdal Thor Premium Home product as a whole is one of the best products on the market that deliver complete anti-malware protection.

Which Heimdal Thor product should I buy? Discount code available!

The new portfolio of Heimdal Thor products for home users can be confusing. If you have a good antivirus already installed, you should buy Thor Foresight Home. If you do not have an antivirus, and you want to save on the cost for complete antivirus protection, then Heimdal Thor Premium Home is your best choice. Our readers get a large discount of 60% for Heimdal Thor Premium Home and of 50% for Thor Foresight Home. Get the discount here.

The download and installation experience

To get Heimdal Thor Premium Home on your computer, you must first download it from the official website. The file you download is a small executable called Heimdal.DeliveryLauncher.msi, with a size of only 756 KB. The launcher downloads the files required for the installation. You should get around 42.8 MB of files from Heimdal's servers. Heimdal Thor Premium Home lets you choose the language it uses (English, German, Danish or Korean). You can also select a custom install location and say whether you want a shortcut for it placed on your desktop.

Once you agree to its license terms, you can activate the product. If you purchased a Home or Enterprise license, enter your license key. Otherwise, you can choose to activate a trial version of Heimdal Thor Premium Home or use the Free version, which means you only get the app patching feature in the Heimdal Thor Foresight module, but nothing more. For the free trial or the free version of Thor, you have to provide only an email address.

When the activation is complete, the wizard tells you when the license expires, and you can continue installing the software.

The install process takes a few seconds from start to finish. Once the installation ends, Heimdal Thor Premium Home loads its user interface and starts its protection processes. There is no need for a reboot.

The download and install processes for Heimdal are fast and easy to go through. If you are installing the Thor Premium Trial or the Thor Free versions, the only personal information you have to provide is a valid email address. If you are installing Thor Home Premium or Enterprise, you must also enter the license key to activate your product.

Ease of use and configuration

Heimdal Thor Premium Home's user interface is rather good looking, following the flat design trend that we see everywhere from Windows 10 to Android. The user interface is split into two major sections: Thor Foresight and Thor Vigilance. Thor Foresight shows whether your computer is healthy or not, and gives you details and access to the different features in this module: DarkLayer Guard, Targeted processes, Probability of infection and Software updates.

Thor Vigilance is the section found on the right side of the window, and it shows whether or not it is enabled and working well. It also gives you access to its main features and actions. You can use it to start or see when the last On Demand Scan was run, enable or disable the Real Time Protection, see the number of Infections and Quarantined items from the last 30 days.

Both Thor Foresight and Thor Vigilance let you trigger manual scans with just a click or tap on the Scan Anyway or Quick Scan buttons.

The central console also changes its coloring depending on your system's health state. For instance, if Heimdal Thor Premium Home finds third-party apps that need to be patched with updates, the Thor Foresight section turns yellow and tells you that "Your computer must be updated," like in the screenshot below.

Inside the Heimdal Thor Foresight module, there are three major security components: DarkLayer Guard, VectorN Detection, and X-ploit Resilience. Let's see what each of them does:

DarkLayer Guard is a two-way traffic scanning engine that allows Heimdal Thor Foresight to block network communications when it detects zero-day exploits, ransomware, data leakage, and next-generation attacks. Dark Layer Guard protects your PC from attacks before they compromise it.

Thor Foresight's VectorN Detection, according to Heimdal, "uses Machine Learning technology to perform an in-depth analysis of all incoming and outgoing HTTP, HTTPS, and DNS traffic." It is designed to analyze the user's internet traffic patterns to identify known and also yet unknown malware attacks. In other words, it detects and blocks second-generation malware.

The third security component from Thor Foresight is called X-ploit Resilience. It is responsible for keeping your third party apps up to date, patched with the latest updates available. X-ploit Resilience displays all the third-party apps that are installed and monitored by Heimdal Thor Foresight. For each of them, you can see the version installed, its Status, and two different check marks one for choosing whether you want to monitor that software and one for turning the Autoupdate feature On or Off.

If one of the third party apps from Heimdal Thor Foresight's list is not installed on your computer, you can also install it using the One Click App Install feature. We like this small detail, as it allows you to quickly install any of these apps, with just one click. There is no need to go to a particular website to download and install the app. If Heimdal Thor Foresight knows it, it has it.

The list of third-party apps supported by Heimdal Thor Foresight's patching system is extensive. It can now monitor over 70 third-party apps. Although some of the apps are different versions or editions of the same software, the list is quite long and it includes: 7-zip, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader, Adobe Shockwave, Accordance, Audacity, Axure, Backup and Sync from Google, Box Sync, Calibre, CCleaner, Chrome, Cisco WebEx Meeting Center, Classic Shell, Concierge Services Catering, Dropbox, Everything, FileZilla, Firefox, Foxit Reader, Garmin Express, Gimp, iTunes, Jabra Direct, Java and 8, Jitsi, KaBoo, Krita, Lenovo System Update, LibreOffice, Microsoft Power BI Desktop, Microsoft Silverlight, NemID, Notepad++, OpenOffice, Paint.Net, Picasa, Pidgin, Remote Desktop Manager, Skype, TeamViewer, Thunderbird, VirtualBox, VLC, and WinRar.

The other module from Heimdal Thor Premium Home - Thor Vigilance - is a traditional antivirus engine based on Avira. It can be used to detect and block malware that is already on your computer so that it can act against viruses, trojans, harmful scripts, spyware programs, and others alike. Thor Vigilance uses malware signatures found on your system as well as in the cloud.

Although many of the protection modules found in Heimdal Thor Premium Home can be enabled or disabled right from the main interface, this security product also includes a series of more advanced Settings. You can access them by clicking on the small cog wheel from the top right corner of the user interface. You can turn the main modules On or Off as well as set the frequency of scans for things like patching apps or updating virus definitions.

We appreciated that Heimdal Thor Premium Home includes a range of settings which you can use to adjust the number and types of notifications you receive from it. In the Notifications section from the Settings, you can turn the Balloon notification On or Off altogether, but you can also go into detail and see whether you want to see notifications about malicious traffic that has been blocked, about software updates, malware infections or security news alerts.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home also includes some Support options: open the menu from the central console, and you can then access their Educational materials, FAQ (Frequently asked questions), read the product manuals or, if you need further help, you can Contact them by sending an email with a ticket request.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home offers a user interface with a flat design that looks good. We liked how easy it is to work with the various modules and features available, and we are sure that users will be pleased too.

How well does Heimdal Thor Premium Home protect you?

Heimdal Thor Premium Home works by adding a series of extra layers of security on top of your antivirus solution or together with Thor Vigilance (the antivirus engine that is part of Thor Premium Home), all to protect you against cyber threats. Let's take a look at each of these security features and see whether they work as advertised:

The first protection layers offered by Heimdal Thor Premium Home are the DarkLayer Guard and VectorN modules. They analyze all the traffic going on your computer and check whether the websites that you are trying to load are known to hold malicious content. If they detect something dangerous, Heimdal tries to stop the threats before they reach your computer.

To test the efficiency of this security product, we used all the popular web browsers (Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer) and tried to load a series of websites known to be phishing scams or hold malicious content. Our findings were positive, and we can confirm that Heimdal Thor managed to block all the malicious websites that we tried to access. It worked as it should have in all the web browsers that we tested.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home also includes Thor Vigilance, which is an antivirus engine designed to react when malware is already found on your PC or when your computer is already infected.

For it, we started by checking how it deals with infected malware files stored on removable drives. We placed a bunch of viruses on a USB memory stick and then plugged it into our test computer. Unfortunately, Thor Vigilance did not automatically scan the memory stick, nor did it ask us if we wanted to scan it. We decided to run a custom scan to see if it identified the malicious files we had on that stick. Thor Vigilance managed to identify all of them and promptly moved them into the quarantine.

Next, we took our test computer and installed a clean version of Windows 10, we patched it with all the available system updates, and then we installed a whole series of viruses on it. We asked Heimdal Thor Premium Home to install itself and clean our computer. We were pleased to see that the suite had no problems installing and starting its protection services. We were also happy to see that it was able to detect and to remove all the malware on the system.

Another important feature when it comes to evaluating the performance of an antivirus engine is how fast it is when scanning for malware. Therefore, we measured the speed at which Heimdal Thor Vigilance scanned our 137GB system partition with 75GB of files on it. It took 18 minutes, on average, which is rather slow.

At the time of writing this review, Heimdal Thor Premium Home can monitor and automatically patch over 70 different third-party apps. The list includes widely used programs known to be vulnerable that are usually targeted by malware and hackers. We wanted to see whether Heimdal Thor Premium Home does indeed update the programs found in this list of critical applications. So we used our test computer that was running on Windows 10, and we installed old versions of a few of the programs found in Heimdal Thor Foresight's list. Then, we watched what Heimdal Thor Foresight does. It immediately detected and started updating the old apps. In only a couple of minutes, they were all patched up.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home keeps its word and delivers what it promises. We found it to be an effective product in our testing. The only things that should be improved are the scanning speed offered by the Thor Vigilance antivirus engine, and the fact that it does not ask whether you want to scan removable drives or not.

What is your opinion about Heimdal Thor Premium Home?

Now you know what Heimdal Thor Premium Home is and does. You have also seen how it fared in our testing, and you know our opinion about this security product. Before closing this review, share your opinion about it, in the comments section below. Do you like what it has to offer? Are you considering purchasing a Heimdal Thor Premium Home license?

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