Heimdal je relativno novi na tržištu sigurnosnih proizvoda. U prošlosti su kućnim korisnicima nudili Heimdal Free i Heimdal PRO . Bili su to učinkoviti proizvodi koji su dodali nove slojeve zaštite postojećim antivirusnim proizvodima. Voljeli smo ih koristiti, a Heimdala^(Heimdal) smo toplo preporučili svim našim čitateljima. Tvrtka je nedavno lansirala nove proizvode, s različitim nazivima, koji također uključuju tradicionalnu antivirusnu zaštitu koja im je nedostajala u prošlosti. Sada imamo Heimdal Thor Free, Heimdal Thor Foresight, Heimdal Thor Vigilance i Heimdal Thor Premium Home. Pročitajte ovu recenziju i shvatite koja je razlika između svih ovih proizvoda, koliko su učinkoviti u zaštiti vašeg Windows računala i koji preporučujemo da kupite:

Što su Heimdal Thor Premium Home , Heimdal Thor Vigilance Home , Heimdal Foresight Home i Heimdal Thor Free ?

Heimdal Thor Premium Home vrhunska je sigurnosna aplikacija koju je Heimdal kreirao za kućne korisnike, a uključuje sljedeće sigurnosne module:

1. Thor Foresight Home je modul koji vam pruža dodatne sigurnosne slojeve. Skenira vaše računalo u potrazi za aplikacijama trećih strana za koje se zna da imaju sigurnosne propuste i, ako ih se pronađe, automatski ih ažurira na njihove najnovije verzije. Također može blokirati dolazne napade, ransomware, bankovne trojance, pokušaje krađe identiteta i tako dalje skeniranjem vašeg internetskog prometa ( HTTP , HTTPS i DNS ). Ako ste već žrtva, Thor Foresight Home također može blokirati komunikaciju između zlonamjernog softvera i poslužitelja kontroliranih kibernetičkim kriminalcima, kako bi spriječio uključivanje botnet-a, curenje podataka, povratno biranje ransomwarea itd. Zaključno, Thor Foresight Homeje sigurnosni modul koji vam nudi proaktivnu zaštitu, kako biste zaustavili prijetnje prije nego što dođu do vašeg računala.
2. Thor Vigilance Home je antivirusni modul u paketu Heimdal Thor Premium Home , baziran na Avira antivirusnom mehanizmu. Antivirus koristi i lokalne definicije virusa i definicije virusa temeljene na oblaku i pruža vam zaštitu od tradicionalnih prijetnji zlonamjernog softvera. Drugim riječima, Thor Vigilance Home nudi reaktivnu zaštitu od prijetnji koje su se već našle na vašem računalu ili onih kojima pristupate u stvarnom vremenu.

Ako vam nisu potrebne sve značajke Heimdal Thor Premium Home , možete kupiti Thor Vigilance Home i dobiti samo antivirusni modul ili Thor Foresight Home da dobijete samo proaktivni zaštitni sloj. Heimdal Thor Free uključuje samo modul za ažuriranje aplikacija.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home : Za koga je dobar?

Heimdal Thor Premium Home je sigurnosni proizvod koji je izvrstan za ljude koji žele:

• Zaštitite svoja računala od napada zlonamjernog softvera koji potječu s interneta, ransomwarea, bankovnih i financijskih trojanaca, virusa, pokušaja krađe identiteta itd.
• Automatski zakrpite i održavajte ranjive aplikacije ažurnima
• Zaustavite krađu i curenje njihovih osobnih podataka na internetu
• Budite zaštićeni od prijetnji zlonamjernog softvera koje su se već našle na njihovim računalima, koristeći svoj ugrađeni antivirusni mehanizam

Za i protiv

Cijenimo sljedeće o Heimdal Thor Premium Homeu^{(Heimdal Thor Premium Home)} :

• Korisničko sučelje izgleda dobro i jednostavno je za korištenje
• Poboljšava vašu sigurnost automatskim zakrpama mnogih često korištenih, poznatih kao ranjivih, aplikacija trećih strana
• Posjeduje motor za web skeniranje koji vas štiti od zlonamjernih web-mjesta prije nego što ih dođete u svoje web preglednike i aplikacije
• Ako se vaše računalo zarazi, Heimdal Thor Premium Home može blokirati internetski promet i spriječiti hakere da ukradu vaše podatke. To je posebno važno kada uzmete u obzir svoje financijske i bankovne podatke
• Uključuje antivirusni mehanizam koji nudi reaktivnu zaštitu čak i kada je zlonamjerni softver uspio doći na vaše računalo

Identificirali smo i nekoliko manje pozitivnih aspekata:

• Previše je Thorovih^(Thor) proizvoda, s nazivima koji ljudima ne olakšavaju razumijevanje što rade i po čemu se razlikuju jedni od drugih. Portfelj proizvoda Heimdal Thor trebao bi biti jednostavniji za razumijevanje.
• Thor Vigilance trebao bi proaktivno tražiti od korisnika da skeniraju izmjenjive diskove kada se priključe na svoja računala
• Thor Vigilance sporo skenira vaše računalo na viruse i drugi zlonamjerni softver

Presuda

Heimdal Thor Premium Home inovativni je sigurnosni proizvod s mnogo zaštitnih slojeva. Ako želite najbolju moguću sigurnost od Heimdala^(Heimdal) , razmislite o kupnji. Značajke proaktivne zaštite koje uključuje izvrsne su jer pokrivaju sigurnosne praznine koje tradicionalni antivirusni proizvodi obično ostavljaju otvorenim. Iako novi antivirusni modul Thor Vigilance nije najbolji koji smo testirali, Heimdal Thor Premium Home proizvod u cjelini jedan je od najboljih proizvoda na tržištu koji pruža potpunu zaštitu od zlonamjernog softvera.

Koji Heimdal Thor proizvod trebam kupiti? Dostupan kod za popust^(Discount) !

Novi portfelj proizvoda Heimdal Thor za kućne korisnike može biti zbunjujući. Ako već imate instaliran dobar antivirus, trebali biste kupiti Thor Foresight Home . Ako nemate antivirusni program, a želite uštedjeti na trošku za potpunu antivirusnu zaštitu, onda je Heimdal Thor Premium Home vaš najbolji izbor. Naši čitatelji dobivaju veliki popust od 60% za Heimdal Thor Premium Home i 50% za Thor Foresight Home . Ostvarite popust ovdje^{(discount here)} .

Iskustvo preuzimanja i instalacije

Da biste dobili Heimdal Thor Premium Home na svoje računalo, prvo ga morate preuzeti sa službene web stranice. Datoteka koju preuzimate mala je izvršna datoteka pod nazivom Heimdal.DeliveryLauncher.msi , veličine samo 756 KB. Pokretač preuzima datoteke potrebne za instalaciju. Trebali biste dobiti oko 42,8 MB datoteka s Heimdalovih^(Heimdal) poslužitelja. Heimdal Thor Premium Home omogućuje vam da odaberete jezik koji koristi ( engleski^(English) , njemački^(German) , danski^(Danish) ili korejski^(Korean) ). Također možete odabrati prilagođeno mjesto za instalaciju i reći želite li da se prečac za nju postavi na radnu površinu.

Nakon što prihvatite njegove licencne uvjete, možete aktivirati proizvod. Ako ste kupili Home ili Enterprise licencu, unesite ključ licence. Inače, možete odabrati aktivirati probnu verziju Heimdal Thor Premium Home ili koristiti besplatnu^(Free) verziju, što znači da ćete dobiti samo značajku zakrpa aplikacije u Heimdal Thor Foresight modulu, ali ništa više. Za besplatnu probnu verziju ili besplatnu verziju Thora^(Thor) morate navesti samo adresu e-pošte.

Kada je aktivacija dovršena, čarobnjak će vam reći kada licenca istječe i možete nastaviti s instaliranjem softvera.

Proces instalacije traje nekoliko sekundi od početka do kraja. Nakon što instalacija završi, Heimdal Thor Premium Home učitava svoje korisničko sučelje i pokreće procese zaštite. Nema potrebe za ponovnim pokretanjem.

Procesi preuzimanja i instaliranja za Heimdal su brzi i jednostavni za prolazak. Ako instalirate Thor Premium Trial ili Thor Free verzije, jedini osobni podaci koje morate navesti je važeća adresa e-pošte. Ako instalirate Thor Home Premium ili Enterprise, također morate unijeti licencni ključ da biste aktivirali svoj proizvod.^{(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.)}

Jednostavnost korištenja i konfiguracije

Korisničko sučelje Heimdal Thor Premium Home^{(Heimdal Thor Premium Home's)} prilično je dobro izgleda, prateći trend ravnog dizajna koji vidimo posvuda od Windowsa 10^{(Windows 10)} do Androida^(Android) . Korisničko sučelje podijeljeno je u dva glavna odjeljka: Thor Foresight i Thor Vigilance . Thor Foresight pokazuje je li vaše računalo zdravo ili ne, te vam daje pojedinosti i pristup različitim značajkama u ovom modulu: DarkLayer Guard, Ciljani procesi, Vjerojatnost infekcije^{(DarkLayer Guard, Targeted processes, Probability of infection)} i ažuriranja softvera^{(Software updates)} .

Thor Vigilance je odjeljak koji se nalazi na desnoj strani prozora i pokazuje je li omogućen i radi li dobro. Također vam daje pristup njegovim glavnim značajkama i radnjama. Možete ga koristiti da pokrenete ili vidite kada je pokrenuto zadnje skeniranje na zahtjev^{(On Demand Scan)} , omogućite ili onemogućite zaštitu u stvarnom vremenu^{(Real Time Protection)} , vidite broj zaraza^(Infections) i stavki u karanteni^{(Quarantined)} u posljednjih 30 dana.

I Thor Foresight i Thor Vigilance omogućuju vam pokretanje ručnog skeniranja samo jednim klikom ili dodirom na gumbe Scan Anyway ili Quick Scan .

Središnja konzola također mijenja svoju boju ovisno o zdravstvenom stanju vašeg sustava. Na primjer, ako Heimdal Thor Premium Home pronađe aplikacije trećih strana koje je potrebno zakrpiti ažuriranjima, odjeljak Thor Foresight postaje žut i govori vam da "Vaše računalo mora biti ažurirano",^{("Your computer must be updated,")} kao na snimci zaslona ispod.

Unutar Heimdal Thor Foresight modula nalaze se tri glavne sigurnosne komponente: DarkLayer Guard, VectorN Detection i X-ploit Resilience . Pogledajmo što svaki od njih radi:

DarkLayer Guard je dvosmjerni mehanizam za skeniranje prometa koji omogućuje Heimdal Thor Foresightu^{(Heimdal Thor Foresight)} da blokira mrežnu komunikaciju kada otkrije eksploatacije nultog dana, ransomware, curenje podataka i napade sljedeće generacije. Dark Layer Guard štiti vaše računalo od napada prije nego što ga ugroze.

Thor Foresight's VectorN Detection , prema Heimdalu, "koristi tehnologiju strojnog učenja za izvođenje dubinske analize cjelokupnog dolaznog i odlaznog HTTP, HTTPS i DNS prometa." ^{("uses Machine Learning technology to perform an in-depth analysis of all incoming and outgoing HTTP, HTTPS, and DNS traffic.")}Dizajniran je za analizu uzoraka internetskog prometa korisnika kako bi se identificirali poznati i još uvijek nepoznati napadi zlonamjernog softvera. Drugim riječima, otkriva i blokira zlonamjerni softver druge generacije.

Treća sigurnosna komponenta iz Thor Foresighta^{(Thor Foresight)} zove se X-ploit Resilience . Odgovoran je za ažuriranje vaših aplikacija trećih strana, zakrpanih s najnovijim dostupnim ažuriranjima. X-ploit Resilience prikazuje sve aplikacije trećih strana koje instalira i nadzire Heimdal Thor Foresight . Za svaku od njih možete vidjeti instaliranu verziju, njezin status i dvije različite kvačice, jednu za odabir želite li nadzirati taj softver, a drugu za uključivanje ili^(On) isključivanje značajke^(Off) automatskog ažuriranja^(Autoupdate) .

Ako jedna od aplikacija treće strane s popisa Heimdal Thor Foresight^{(Heimdal Thor Foresight's)} nije instalirana na vaše računalo, možete je instalirati i pomoću značajke Instalacija aplikacije jednim klikom^{(One Click App Install)} . Sviđa nam se ovaj mali detalj jer vam omogućuje brzu instalaciju bilo koje od ovih aplikacija, samo jednim klikom. Nema potrebe ići na određenu web stranicu da biste preuzeli i instalirali aplikaciju. Ako Heimdal Thor Foresight to zna, ima ga.

Popis aplikacija trećih strana koje podržava Heimdal Thor Foresightov^{(Heimdal Thor Foresight's)} sustav zakrpanja je opsežan. Sada može pratiti preko 70 aplikacija trećih strana. Iako su neke od aplikacija različite verzije ili izdanja istog softvera, popis je prilično dugačak i uključuje: 7-zip, Adobe Acrobat Reader , Adobe Acrobat Pro , Adobe AIR , Adobe Flash Player , Adobe Reader , Adobe Shockwave , Accordance , Audacity , Axure , sigurnosna kopija^(Backup) i sinkronizacija^(Sync) s Googlea^(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 i 8, Jitsi , KaBoo , Krita , Lenovo ažuriranje sustava^{(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 i WinRar .

Drugi modul iz Heimdal Thor Premium Home - Thor Vigilance - tradicionalni je antivirusni motor baziran na Aviri^(Avira) . Može se koristiti za otkrivanje i blokiranje zlonamjernog softvera koji se već nalazi na vašem računalu kako bi mogao djelovati protiv virusa, trojanaca, štetnih skripti, špijunskih programa i drugih sličnih. Thor Vigilance koristi potpise zlonamjernog softvera koji se nalaze na vašem sustavu, kao iu oblaku.

Iako se mnogi zaštitni moduli koji se nalaze u Heimdal Thor Premium Homeu^{(Heimdal Thor Premium Home)} mogu omogućiti ili onemogućiti izravno iz glavnog sučelja, ovaj sigurnosni proizvod također uključuje niz naprednijih postavki^(Settings) . Možete im pristupiti klikom na mali zupčanik u gornjem desnom kutu korisničkog sučelja. Možete uključiti ili isključiti glavne module ,^(On) kao i^(Off) postaviti učestalost skeniranja za stvari kao što su zakrpe aplikacija ili ažuriranje definicija virusa.

Cijenimo što Heimdal Thor Premium Home uključuje niz postavki koje možete koristiti za podešavanje broja i vrsta obavijesti koje primate od njega. U odjeljku Obavijesti^{(Notifications)} iz Postavke^(Settings) možete u potpunosti uključiti ili isključiti ^(Off)Balon obavijest^{(Balloon notification On)} , ali možete ići u detalje i vidjeti želite li vidjeti obavijesti o zlonamjernom prometu koji je blokiran, o ažuriranjima softvera, infekcijama zlonamjernim softverom ili sigurnosti obavijesti o vijestima.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home također uključuje neke opcije podrške^(Support) : otvorite izbornik na središnjoj konzoli, a zatim možete pristupiti njihovim edukativnim^{(Educational)} materijalima, FAQ (često postavljana pitanja)^{(FAQ (Frequently asked questions))} , pročitati priručnike za proizvode ili, ako trebate dodatnu pomoć, možete ih kontaktirati^(Contact) slanjem e-pošte sa zahtjevom za ulaznicu.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home nudi korisničko sučelje s ravnim dizajnom koje izgleda dobro. Svidjelo nam se kako je jednostavno raditi s raznim dostupnim modulima i značajkama, a sigurni smo da će i korisnici biti zadovoljni.^{(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.)}

Koliko vas Heimdal Thor Premium Home štiti?

Heimdal Thor Premium Home radi tako što dodaje niz dodatnih slojeva sigurnosti na vaše antivirusno rješenje ili zajedno s Thor Vigilance (antivirusni mehanizam koji je dio Thor Premium Home ), a sve kako bi vas zaštitio od cyber prijetnji. Pogledajmo svaku od ovih sigurnosnih značajki i provjerimo funkcioniraju li kako se oglašava:

Prvi zaštitni slojevi koje nudi Heimdal Thor Premium Home su DarkLayer Guard i VectorN moduli. Analiziraju sav promet na vašem računalu i provjeravaju je li poznato da web-mjesta koja pokušavate učitati sadrže zlonamjeran sadržaj. Ako otkriju nešto opasno, Heimdal pokušava zaustaviti prijetnje prije nego što dođu do vašeg računala.

Kako bismo testirali učinkovitost ovog sigurnosnog proizvoda, koristili smo sve popularne web preglednike ( Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera i Internet Explorer) i pokušali učitati niz web-mjesta za koje se zna da predstavljaju phishing prijevare ili sadrže zlonamjerni sadržaj. Naši nalazi su bili pozitivni i možemo potvrditi da je Heimdal Thor uspio blokirati sve zlonamjerne web stranice kojima smo pokušali pristupiti. Radio je kako je trebao u svim web preglednicima koje smo testirali.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home također uključuje Thor Vigilance , koji je antivirusni mehanizam dizajniran da reagira kada je zlonamjerni softver već pronađen na vašem računalu ili kada je vaše računalo već zaraženo.

Za njega smo započeli provjerom kako postupa sa zaraženim datotekama zlonamjernog softvera pohranjenim na izmjenjivim diskovima. Postavili smo hrpu virusa na USB memorijski stick i zatim ga priključili na naše testno računalo. Nažalost, Thor Vigilance nije automatski skenirao memorijski stick, niti nas je pitao želimo li ga skenirati. Odlučili smo pokrenuti prilagođeno skeniranje kako bismo vidjeli je li identificiralo zlonamjerne datoteke koje smo imali na tom sticku. Thor Vigilance uspio ih je sve identificirati i odmah ih je premjestio u karantenu.

Zatim smo uzeli naše testno računalo i instalirali čistu verziju Windowsa 10^{(Windows 10)} , zakrpili smo ga sa svim dostupnim ažuriranjima sustava, a zatim smo na njega instalirali čitav niz virusa. Zamolili smo Heimdal Thor Premium Home da se sam instalira i očisti naše računalo. Sa zadovoljstvom smo vidjeli da paket nije imao problema s instaliranjem i pokretanjem usluga zaštite. Također smo bili sretni što smo vidjeli da je uspio otkriti i ukloniti sav zlonamjerni softver na sustavu.

Još jedna važna značajka kada je u pitanju ocjenjivanje performansi antivirusnog mehanizma je njegova brzina pri skeniranju zlonamjernog softvera. Stoga smo izmjerili brzinu kojom je Heimdal Thor Vigilance skenirao našu sistemsku particiju od 137 GB sa 75 GB datoteka na njoj. Trajalo je u prosjeku 18 minuta, što je prilično sporo.

U vrijeme pisanja ove recenzije, Heimdal Thor Premium Home može pratiti i automatski zakrpiti preko 70 različitih aplikacija trećih strana. Popis uključuje široko korištene programe za koje se zna da su ranjivi koji su obično na meti zlonamjernog softvera i hakera. Htjeli smo vidjeti da li Heimdal Thor Premium Home doista ažurira programe koji se nalaze na ovom popisu kritičnih aplikacija. Stoga smo koristili naše testno računalo koje je radilo na Windows 10 i instalirali stare verzije nekoliko programa koji se nalaze na popisu Heimdal Thor Foresighta^{(Heimdal Thor Foresight's)} . Zatim smo gledali što radi Heimdal Thor Foresight . Odmah je otkrio i počeo ažurirati stare aplikacije. Za samo par minuta svi su bili zakrpani.

Heimdal Thor Premium Home drži svoju riječ i ispunjava ono što obećava. U našem testiranju utvrdili smo da je to učinkovit proizvod. Jedino što bi trebalo poboljšati je brzina skeniranja koju nudi antivirusni motor Thor Vigilance, te činjenica da ne postavlja pitanje želite li skenirati izmjenjive diskove ili ne.^{(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.)}

Kakvo je vaše mišljenje o Heimdal Thor Premium Homeu^{(Heimdal Thor Premium Home)} ?

Sada znate što je i radi Heimdal Thor Premium Home . Također ste vidjeli kako je prošao u našem testiranju, a znate i naše mišljenje o ovom sigurnosnom proizvodu. Prije nego što zatvorite ovu recenziju, podijelite svoje mišljenje o njoj u odjeljku za komentare ispod. Sviđa li vam se ono što nudi? Razmišljate^(Are) li o kupnji Heimdal Thor Premium Home licence?

Security for everyone - Reviewing Heimdal Thor Premium Home

Heimdal is a relative newcоmer to the mаrket of security products. Іn the past, they offered 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.

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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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