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Read more. More flexibility, Less complexity. New cloud protection against email threats F-Secure Cloud Protection for Microsoft Office is a cost effective choice for added protection against email threats. As this is no longer available to new users, its webpage advises that you should get F-Secure Safe instead. Both the Safe and Total products allow you to add more devices.
However, there is a day trial and a day refund period. Heading up the pages for both F-Secure Safe and Total is a free trial button. This prompts you to create an account and then takes you to your My F-Secure page.
Here, it guides you through the installation for either you or a family member. Although the install was quick, it did require two restarts. F-Secure Anti-Virus also has a free trial. Everything is easy to run from this window, and a single separate window holds any settings you can change. There are also links to take you to support pages or renew your subscription. The available manual scans are fine, but we would prefer more than two choices here. On the first run-through, this took just over five minutes and scanned 9, items.
After this, the scans took just over a minute to complete, as the program knew which files were important to check. You can also run a full scan. After four hours and 20 minutes, it had scanned 1,, items. This scan looked through all file types for any threats, but we had to manually remove any compressed files.
If other programs tried to run, about 20 percent of CPU usage remained dedicated to the scan. As an antivirus, F-Secure needs to keep your computer safe from any threat. To test this, we used a combination of hands-on tools and lab results from trusted testers to find out how well the antivirus can protect you from real-world malware.
AV-Test gives F-Secure the highest results of the three labs we use. All three categories — protection, performance and usability — got the maximum score of six marks. With F-Secure earning consistently high ratings, getting full marks in protection for more than six years, you can be confident that it can keep your device safe. AV-Comparatives obtained a slightly weaker result, with F-Secure earning only one star out of three for real-world performance. Although the malware protection was worthy of a two-star rating, F-Secure had 25 false positives.
This could become an issue for some users, and programs like Avira have far fewer false positives without giving up security. The final lab we use is MRG Effitas , where F-Secure gained a level-two pass, losing its level-one pass mark from early Because these are online tools, we used F-Secure Safe in these tests.
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Safe usage Use your computer safely without slowing it down. These are all useful features, but they still leave us feeling a little underwhelmed. URL filtering comes as standard with most baseline antivirus packages, for instance. And moving up from antivirus usually gets you many more features than you'll see here. Bitdefender Internet Security includes a firewall, spam filter, webcam protection, a microphone monitor, and a bunch of smaller privacy extras password manager, file shredder, simple encryption tool, wireless network scanner, more.
Opting for F-Secure may not save you much cash, either. Still, if you only need the security basics, F-Secure's simpler and more lightweight approach may be an advantage, and it's certainly worth taking a look at the suite's additional features.
F-Secure's Secure Browsing feature uses a combination of browser extension and network-level technologies to protect you from web threats. This starts by displaying a 'reputation rating' icon next to every link in your Google, Bing and Yahoo! Restrict your clicks to URLs with a green tick for 'safe' and you'll immediately avoid some risks.
A second layer of protection blocks known harmful sites, as well as 'suspicious' websites or anything with 'prohibited content' depending on possible parental control settings. The feature is reasonably configurable, handy if you find it blocks legitimate sites. If a link is falsely flagged, you're able to add it to an Exceptions list in a click or two. And if you still run into a few hassles, you can reduce detection sensitivity by keeping blocking for harmful sites, but turning off 'suspicious' website blocking.
Measuring the accuracy of any URL filtering layer is tricky, and F-Secure proved particularly difficult. We couldn't use our regular automated testing framework due to a technical conflict with the way F-Secure works our issue, not F-Secure's , and it's not been benchmarked by the labs recently. Hand testing of malicious links found F-Secure had only average blocking success, though, and AV-Comparatives' Anti-Phishing Certification Test old, but the last one where F-Secure appeared reported similar results.
Banking protection is a common security suite feature, and usually involves using a custom hardened browser to carry out your most important online transactions. But F-Secure's Windows banking protection feature does things very differently. When you visit a known banking website, F-Secure SAFE disconnects all untrusted applications from the internet and prevents them going back online while you're at the site. It also blocks untrusted websites until your transactions are complete.
These are drastic steps, but an alert warns you what's happening, and SAFE highlights your screen with a green border as a reminder.
Banking protection ends automatically when you leave the site, or you can shut it down manually with a couple of clicks if it's interfered with any legitimate apps. This has improved since our last review, when Banking Protection didn't fire up when we accessed some major sites, including PayPal.
But we're unsure how useful this really is. SAFE may stop malware connecting to the internet while you're at the banking site, but if it's already running on your system, collecting keystrokes, maybe taking screenshots, you're already in big trouble. If it can't send your stolen credentials while you're at the site, our guess is it'll just try again later. On balance, we prefer banking protection which uses a separate and isolated browser.
Bitdefender's Safepay is less convenient to use, for instance, but it immediately improves your security by not having any extensions, and it takes low-level technical steps to defeat both keyloggers and screen capturing malware. F-Secure's Family Rules is a basic parental controls system which enables setting device screen time limits, blocking access to websites by content type, and on Android and iOS locating lost or stolen devices.
Device usage can be restricted to a total amount of time per day. Options range from 15 minutes to 8 hours, but you're forced to choose from a small number of preset times. For example, if a 3-hour restriction isn't quite enough, your next options are 3 hours 30 minutes, 4 hours, then 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Would it really be so difficult to allow a user to enter a specific number of minutes? All these settings are applied to a specific device, too or a user account on a device, for PCs. If your child has two or more devices, you'll need to set them up individually, and think carefully about how any usage time should be split. Although you're not able to define when during the day your child should use his time allowance, a Bedtime feature limits device use during nighttime. You're able to set when the device is turned off and becomes available in the morning, although again, SAFE limits the time you choose.
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