Preface
This guide is intended to all users who have chosen BitDefender 9 Standard as a security
solution for their personal computers. The information presented in this book is suitable not
only for computer literates, it is accessible to everyone who is able to work under Windows.
This book will describe for you BitDefender 9 Standard, the Company and the team who
built it, will guide youthrough the installation process, will teachyou how to configure it. You
will find out how to use BitDefender 9 Standard, how to update, test and customize it. You
will learn how to get best from BitDefender.
We wish you a pleasant and useful lecture.
1. Conventions used in this book
1.1. Typographical conventions
Several text styles are used in the book for an improved readability. Their aspect and meaning
are presented in the table below.
DescriptionAppearance
Syntax samplesare printed withmonospaced charac-
ters.
sample syntax
The URL link is pointing to some external location,
on http or ftp servers.
http://www.bitdefender.com
E-mail messages are inserted in the text for contact
information.
<support@bitdefender.com>
This is an internal link, towards some location inside
the document.
“Preface” (p. xiii)
File and directories are printed using monospaced
font.
filename
All the product options are printed using strong
characters.
option
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