The most important features of G Data Total Security 2022

Anti-Ransomware
No chance for blackmailing Trojans: Our anti-ransomware technology detects blackmailing Trojans before they can take your data hostage. We protect you from criminals who encrypt your photos, documents and personal data.

Password manager
The function remembers your passwords for online shops, forums, your e-mail account and much more. Simply integrate our password manager into your browser. Passwords and contact data can be filled in automatically if desired.

Backups
Automatically back up your data locally on your PC or in the cloud. The password-protected backups ensure that your data is always protected. Use Google Drive or Dropbox for your data backup, or access a German cloud if you wish – with DriveOnWeb.

Data encryption
Protect confidential information and files with a password. This way, only people you really trust will access it. Encrypt external storage media such as USB sticks in the same way. Decrypt them without prior software installation using your secure password alone.

G DATA BankGuard
Make your banking and online shopping a safe bet with our patented BankGuard technology. This function ensures that your browser only displays unaltered content.

Access control
Determine who can use USB sticks, burners, hard drives and other devices on your PC. Access control lets you keep all your USB slots under control. This prevents malware from entering your computer via external storage media.

browser cleaner
Clean it up: With our Browser Cleaner you remove annoying toolbars and add-ons from your Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome.

Performance Tuner
Delete obsolete cache entries and other ballast. This way you can increase the performance of your PC with just a few clicks.

How G Data protects your path through the web

With online banking and shopping

The connection between your bank and your computer is usually encrypted. The decoding of the data transmission takes place in your browser: Cyber criminals use banking Trojans to get involved in the process. As soon as you make a transfer, the attackers manipulate the data sent. Your money then no longer goes to the intended recipient like an online shop, but ends up in another account.

Of course, G Data virus scanners recognize banking Trojans by their characteristics. If this pest already has its own signature, Internet Security makes the malware harmless as soon as it is downloaded. G Data BankGuard technology provides additional protection against as yet unknown dangers: This function ensures that your browser only displays checked and unaltered content.

How does BankGuard do that?

Manipulations by banking trojans take place in certain files in the main memory. G DATA BankGuard automatically recognizes when an infection attempt is made and replaces the affected memory area with a secure copy.

While receiving and sending e-mails

In addition to the files on your hard drive and external storage, G Data virus scanners also check your e-mails for harmful content. This applies to all messages that you receive and send with the e-mail program on your computer. If the scanner does not find anything, the G Data Anti-Spam function is also activated: the application checks the e-mails for characteristics that are typical of spam. These characteristics are used to calculate a value that reflects the probability of spam.

In addition to its own assessment, the OutbreakShield technology compares the results with a database on the Internet – this is where the patterns of mass sent viruses and spam mails are recorded. In this way, G Data Internet Security closes the gap in real time that exists between the start of a mass mailing and combating it with specially adapted signatures.

While surfing

The virus guard checks all files coming from the web. It stops infected documents, images, etc. as soon as they are downloaded, so even unnoticed downloads no longer pose a danger to you. Internet security is not only dependent on the hourly updated virus signatures. In addition to the signature scan, the software works with a cloud solution: This online repository collects properties of current files that contain malicious code. These properties are compared with those of your files – and you quickly find out if everything is secure.

And how does G DATA protect against dangerous websites?

Internet addresses are also collected in the cloud: If a URL in the database is known to be a distributor of harmful content, G Data Browser protection blocks the page. So if cybercriminals try to trap you with phishing links, you have nothing to fear. By the way, this also applies to attacks via social networks: links in false posts and advertisements are not opened in the browser.

Regardless of the cloud, G Data Web Protection examines all data sent to your computer to visit a website. This way it detects dangerous content before you open the page.