Heimdal security currently offers three products in the field of antivirus software: the Thor Foresight, the Thor Vigilant, and the Thor Home Premium suite.

Thor Foresight: Known as a proactive antivirus, it costs €59.95/year for 3 PCs, and €44.96/year after the discount. It comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee and the following features:

• Unique Threat Prevention of the Most Advanced Ransomware Viruses, Spyware and APTs
• Unique Traffic-based Malware Detection and Blocking before it reaches the user’s PC
• Multi-layered, AI powered protection
• Secures web-browsing
• Secures online banking and payments
• Phishing protection
• Stops cybercriminals from extracting personal data
• Blocks Data Leakage
• Automatically updates apps to close security holes in the user’s PC
• Installs the user’s favorite software securely and conveniently

Thor Vigilant: Known as a reactive antivirus, it costs €49.95/year for 3 PCs, and €37.46/year after the discount. It comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee and the following features:

• Firewall
• Next-gen Antivirus
• Local Signature / File-based Scanning
• Real-time Cloud Scanning
• Sandbox and Backdoor Inspection
• Heuristic / Behavior-based Scanning

Thor Home Premium: This is the reactive and proactive antivirus package, and it costs €89.95/year for 3 PCs and €67.46 after discount. It comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, and includes all the features of both the Foresight and Vigilance plans. For €67.46 the price is better than many competitors.

The Heimdal Security firm is the parent company of the Thor Home Premium antivirus software, and the one behind its development and marketing. It has a track record of seven years helping people fight malware and cybercrime thanks to the creation and development of new technologies and intelligence.

Heimdal has protected more than 5,000 companies and 600,000 users throughout its eight years. The company has won several accolades, including the “Most Educational Security Blog” award in 2016, nomination for Anti-Ransomware Solution of the Year at the 2017 Computing Security Awards, and is winner of the “Anti Malware Solution of the Year” at the 2018 Computing Security Awards.

Thor Home Premium is both proactive and reactive, as the rise of cyber threats require antivirus software to be nowadays. Next gen anti-malware software needs to incorporate new things like automatic learning, and Thor Home Premium both actively looks for risks and hazards while defending the user’s system with a wide array of resources.

The Darklayer Guard is an additional defense layer that next gen antivirus software need to have. It supervises and actively filters web traffic, including HTTP, HTTPS, and DNS layers.

Heimdal’s Vector N Detection is Thor Home Premium’s anti-malware engine, a tool that can analyze potentially malicious code to detect and block attacks and threats.

To reinforce the user’s security system and protect against potential vulnerabilities, Thor Home Premium has the X-ploit Resilience tool. It automatically manages vulnerabilities and installs timely updates that are available in the software and in other apps.

Downloading and installing the Thor Home Premium anti-malware solution is quite simple. After the user downloads the software, they will be transferred to Heimdal’s agent, and from there, the basic configuration options can be set up, such as analysis and scans, third-party apps updates, and activation or deactivation of other functions.

The user interface is highly intuitive at all levels. While other brands often collapse the display with lots of configuration options that the user doesn’t understand or care about, Thor Home Premium preaches simplicity in this regard.

In the primary screen, users can see in real-time how many attacks the Darklayer Guard fends off, and the Vector N Detection and X-ploit Resilience features let the person know if actions are needed. Users can choose other colors for the background, as well.