
Bitdefender downloads a month or year software#
Installing Bitdefender Premium VPN is a breeze (Image credit: Bitdefender) Privacy and loggingīitdefender Premium VPN appears to be a solely Bitdefender product – you pay them to use the service, it's powered by their software – but it works by connecting to Hotspot Shield servers and using the Hotspot Shield network. Private Internet Access charges only $2.19 a month on its' three-year plan, for instance, and throws in simple antivirus for free. That's notably cheaper than the VPN heavyweights of ExpressVPN and NordVPN, although there are better deals around, especially if you're willing to sign up for a longer contract. You can pay by card, PayPal or bank transfer, and there's a 30-day money-back guarantee if the service doesn't work out for you. The annual plan does have a special introductory price of $2.49 a month for year one, $4.17 on renewal. Monthly billing is as good value as it looks. But finally, they told us there was no increase on renewal. Although our question was purely about the product, the agent insisted on looking up our account details, which took another six minutes.

Despite telling us we were #1 in the queue and would be talking to someone in 1-3 minutes, we actually waited for 10 minutes. We couldn't see a renewal price or a link to find out, so we opened a live chat window with support. It looked great value, too, at $6.99 (many competitors ask $10-$13 for their monthly plans), but the website described this as 'billed $6.99 for the first month.' Did this mean it increased on renewal? It's good to see Bitdefender has added a monthly billing option since our last review. It includes the core essentials, though, with P2P support on offer and a kill switch to protect you if the VPN drops, and it should cover you in most situations. You can only use it via the official apps (there's no support for manually setting up the service to run on routers or other platforms which don't have apps).ĭon't expect much more in the way of features Premium VPN is aimed at regular users looking for something simple, not experts who need to fine-tune every detail.
Bitdefender downloads a month or year download#
This usually means better download speeds, but there's a catch.

The apps now use Hotspot Shield's Catapult Hydra protocol rather than OpenVPN.
