The antivirus made average use of system resources for a starter product, grabbing around 500MB of storage space, and adding six background processes to our PC. Trying out F-Secure Anti-Virus is easy, with a free trial download on the site, and a simple installer which set up our system within a couple of minutes. That's not bad, but Norton 360 Deluxe offers antivirus, dark web monitoring, 50GB of cloud backup space and an unlimited VPN (opens in new tab) for $40 in year one, $105 on renewal (that's to cover five devices.)Īlternatively, although Avira Prime doesn't have dark web monitoring, it gets you antivirus, VPN and a bunch of other maintenance and security tools for only $100 a year, or $9 a month to try it out. Prices jump to $90 to cover up to three devices for a year, or $110 to cover five. Norton 360 Deluxe does much the same, but F-Secure claims to have some advantages, in particular by using 'a combination of human intelligence and Dark Web monitoring to recover breach data up to 6 months faster.' F-Secure monitors the web for signs of your personal information being leaked in a breach, and raises an alert if anything appears. ID PROTECTION (opens in new tab) still includes a password manager (opens in new tab), but you now also get dark web monitoring. It's broadly comparable to other security suites, although might feel more expensive as you don't have quite as many features.į-Secure Total (opens in new tab) is essentially F-Secure SAFE with unrestricted access to F-Secure's Freedome VPN (opens in new tab), and F-Secure ID PROTECTION, the replacement for the company's KEY password manager. Pricing is fair, with a three device, one-year license costing an initial $35, then $70 on renewal, and more savings available as you add devices and years. That's good news, but it's still missing some of the features you might expect from an internet security suite, such as a firewall, spam filter or password manager.
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