▷ What is bytefence and how to eliminate it

When we install free programs downloaded from the internet we have to pay close attention to each of the screens of the installation wizard. On many occasions some of these contain " Adware " or advertisements to install " extra " programs on your computer. One of these programs is or was undoubtedly Bytefence. Is it really a virus or does it harm our computer? We will see these and more details about this software.

What is Bytefence

Well, nothing is further from reality, Bytefence is a paid antivirus software, but with a test version, developed by the company, if company, Byte Technologies. So the first doubt is cleared, Bytefence is not a virus, but quite the opposite.

What happens with this program is something curious. Other antivirus programs classify it precisely as a potentially undesirable program and this is precisely because of the distribution method that the company uses or used to introduce it to the market.

When we install a free program, other programs usually come packaged within it. If we do not pay attention, in addition to installing the program that interests us, we can also install others such as Bytefence against our will. Bytefence as we have said, is not a malware but an anti-malware.

One of the things that annoys us the most about this antivirus is that it automatically takes over our browser and modifies the default search engine that we have carefully configured.

Another of the actions that we do not like about this antivirus is that it sends a large number of notifications that depending on what we are doing can be quite annoying. It is for these reasons that, rather than seeing it as a benefit, we see it as a threat, and so other antivirus such as Malwarebytes or Jiangmin classify it.

Bytefence Policy Change

However, due to strong criticism from users and complaints filed, the company slightly changed its distribution policy through adware. Now it is an application that we can obtain from its official website and it is not distributed through an application packaged in other free ones. (unless we have checked)

Nor does the page of the browser of our browser modify us (at least in the version that we have officially downloaded), so we can say that today Bytefence is a normal and current antimalware application.

Of course, we will explore it a little more in depth to see the effect it has on our system

Is Bytefence really useful?

The first thing we have to take into account is that what we install is a trial version of the program. When the trial version is finished, we will have to buy or install it.

As for functionalities, we will have the typical ones of a free antivirus. A real-time protection module, a file analyzer and a plugin manager for browsers without too much functionality.

We can also add a list of exclusions so that it does not detect them as viruses. And a quarantine section for detected files.

Faced with these options, we will have much better applications than Bytefence, such as Malwarebytes or Avast. So it is not an outstanding application when it comes to its functionalities.

Resource consumption

As for resource consumption is quite tight, we will have three processes that together consume a total of 9 or 10 MB, so it is quite little. The open program consumes approximately 30 MB

In this sense it is a fairly light application, nor is it that we have too many functionalities.

How to uninstall Bytefence from our team

To uninstall this antivirus we will have to do the same as we normally do to remove an application from the system:

We go to " start " and click on the cogwheel to open the equipment configuration. Once inside the configuration panel, we choose the " Applications " option

We will immediately see the list of applications on the right side of the window. We must locate the name or icon of Bytefence and click on it. All we have to do is choose the " uninstall " option.

In any case, we will have already got rid of this application.

There is not much more to say about what is Bytefence. It is in your judgment to give this antivirus software a try or not. The acquisition of the license is really affordable compared to other options, although we must recognize that its functionalities in the base version are quite scarce.

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If you have recently inadvertently installed Bytefence, please let us know to expand this article and update the information we provide.