Securing your digital life is easy with Heimdal's Thor products. They protect valuable and vulnerable information from infectious viruses and malware; often times putting harmful content in quarantine before it has a chance to reach your devices.

While criminals and cyber hackers work hard to steal your data, Heimdal works harder to keep them out of your bank accounts and other important cyber spaces. They make sure all of your apps are up to date and if they aren't, they update them on your behalf, so any possible point of infection is sealed off.

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Heimdal offers three products in their Thor antivirus line: Foresight, Vigilance and Premium.

Thor Foresight is a proactive product that prevents ransomware from reaching your PC. It comes with multi-layered, AI powered protection that secures your web-browsing and online banking, prevents phishing, and keeps your personal and sensitive data safe.

Thor Vigilance takes a reactive approach when it comes to ransomware prevention. It creates a firewall between your device and malware and has file-based scanning, real-time cloud scanning, sandbox and backdoor inspection, and behavior scanning. If something is threatening your information, Vigilance will find it before it becomes a problem.

PRICE

Heimdal Security offers a free software updater for Windows to prevent malware from attacking vulnerable, outdated applications, but you must pay for its other antivirus products. Costs range from $50 to $75 per year for its home-based products. You can use the antivirus software on up to ten PCs. Business owners will have to contact Heimdal Security to get information on pricing as this depends in part on what you need and how many computers need protecting. Heimdal Security offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, which is pretty typical of most top antivirus products, so you can try it out and decide if you like it.

PERFORMANCE TEST

Heimdal Security has an Excellent rating from over 450 users on Trustpilot, which seems to indicate that most are happy with Heimdal Security's products. None appear to mention any issues with computer slowdowns or browsers taking longer to open following installation of the antivirus software.

SYSTEM COMPATIBILITY

Heimdal Security's antivirus products are currently available to computers running Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 as well as Mac. Linux users will have to explore other alternatives for the time being.

HELP & SUPPORT

Heimdal Security offers a knowledge base and FAQ section on its website, so this is a good place to start for common questions. If you have a question that isn't answered there, you can reach out to the company by email or by submitting a support ticket. The company does not offer phone support, but it responds to issues promptly so this shouldn't affect many consumers.

If you want protection that is both proactive and reactive, then try Thor Premium. It includes all the features in Foresight and Vigilance combined.

No matter what product you choose, you'll have an easy installation and smooth performance; your day-to-day use of technology won't be affected while Thor does its work. The products are simple to use and if you run into any problems, you'll have access to Heimdal's world class support that's available 24/7. Finally, you'll receive a 30-day money back guarantee. If you're unhappy with the performance of any product, simply let them know and they'll refund your money.

Users worldwide trust Heimdal's Thor products to keep their computers safe from harmful ransomware. Thor automatically updates and patches vulnerable apps so your information and data are kept safe and out of the hands of cyber criminals. Thor can both prevent attacks before happening and react to malicious viruses that have found their way into your computers. Best of all, the interface is easy to use and has dependable customer service available 24/7.

Thor's multi-layered protection can help keep you and your information safe. Thor even automatically updates apps where data leaks often occur due to out-of-date versions and gaps in security. Try Thor for free for 30 days and see how robust antivirus protection can be.

Highlights

Features: Advanced, machine-learning powered malware detection and prevention

Ease of Use: Very easy to use

Reliability: Above average

Value: Average

Money Back Guarantee: 30 days

Best For

  • Business users who want extra endpoint protection

  • Home users who already have a standard antivirus, and want to increase their online protection to keep viruses from even reaching their system

  • Gamers and other users who have heavy system requirements and need a security option that won't slow them dow

Why Choose Heimdal

The main reason to choose Heimdal is to access a lightweight, yet highly effective added layer of protection for your internet activity, data, and devices. Heimdal is one of the few antivirus companies to use machine learning to detect online threats and prevent them from ever reaching your device. Choose Heimdal for extra safety, to keep your device clean and virus-free, and for advanced AI that doesn't slow down your system.

What Heimdal Offers

  • A lightweight program that doesn't slow down your system

  • 3 levels of protection for home users

  • A solid security package for business users

  • Free protection through automatic app updates

  • 30-day money-back guarantee

  • Customer support via email and live chat

  • Full-featured protection against all types of viruses and malware

  • Filtering to block suspicious sites

Heimdal offers 3 antivirus packages for the home user, plus a lightweight free version, and a business antivirus package. The free tool provides automatic app updates to ensure that your apps and software don't have any security holes

Home users can choose Thor Vigilance, an antivirus package that uses machine learning to identify and isolate any type of malware. Thor Foresight provides an extra layer of protection for antivirus users, including real-time internet filtering to steer you away from fraudulent sites. Thor Premium combines these 2 products into one security package. Heimdal's Thor Enterprise, for business users, takes the same advanced security tools and adds even more endpoint protection for sensitive business data.

Products & Features

- Thor Vigilance Home

Thor Vigilance Home is the basic antivirus package for home users. It offers signature scanning, real-time cloud scanning, and heuristic and behavior-based scanning to spot suspicious behavior before anything malicious approaches your data. Using machine learning technology, Thor Vigilance identifies online threats before they materialize. Thor Vigilance also uses a sandbox system to isolate possible threats, backdoor security to prevent malware from entering your device via a 'backdoor' server, and a classic firewall for wraparound protection.

- Thor Foresight Home

Thor Foresight is an additional layer of protection that works alongside your existing antivirus. Thor Foresight uses advanced, next-generation technology to filter your internet traffic to block ransomware, malware, and phishing attempts from reaching your device. It also closes loopholes in your apps by automatically installing vital security updates. Finally, Thor Foresight keeps watch for cyber thieves who try to steal your credit card details.

- Thor Premium Home

Thor Premium Home offers all of the advanced, ongoing antivirus features of Thor Vigilance, combined with the additional protection of Thor Foresight. With Thor Premium, you can keep yourself and your family safe online-malicious sites are blocked, suspicious files are identified, quarantined, and destroyed, plus your sensitive data and precious memories are kept secure against scammers and cyber thieves. Using machine learning, Thor Premium protects your device by closing up all vulnerabilities to lock out malware.

- Thor Free

Thor Free ensures that all of your software is automatically kept up to date so that security loopholes are closed. It also identifies risky downloads that could mask viruses and malware, so you only install safe apps.

- Thor Enterprise

With Thor Enterprise, you'll get advanced traffic filtering, real-time cloud scanning, and threat detection powered by machine learning to protect your business data. Thor Enterprise closes security gaps in your software and uses signature scanning, heuristics analysis, and behavioral analysis to detect and prevent threats from entering your business systems.

Ease of Use

Heimdal is easy to buy and to use. There are no complicated add-ons to choose at checkout-you just pay one price for the entire package. Installation is fast-you download the software, choose a location, and run the install wizard. Heimdal will ask you to make 2 settings tweaks:

  • Choose which apps you want to have regularly updated by picking Custom or Autopilot mode. Autopilot automatically installs all relevant updates. Custom lets you choose which apps to update each time.
  • Heimdal's network monitoring service sends you notifications, but you decide which notifications you want to receive.

Once your Thor program is set up, you can control it through the simple interface. You can access a more detailed activity report, or switch to view Traffic Scanning, Malware Engine, or Patching System to see these areas more closely. Thor includes simple on-screen instructions to patch or update software, eliminate quarantined security risks, and approve blocked sites.

Detection Rates and Reliability

There hasn't been an independent test of Heimdal's malware-spotting abilities, but judging by experience, it has high success rates in this area. If anything, it can be a little bit too enthusiastic about blocking possibly suspicious sites. It's very effective at spotting out-of-date apps and software and quietly fixes them.

Pricing

The shortest contract option is for 1 year, and you'll get a discount if you pay for 2 or 3 years up front. Fortunately, there's a 30-day money-back guarantee so that you aren't locked into a 1-year contract if you decide that it doesn't suit your needs.