F-Secure Corporation is a Finnish security vendor with a 25-year history of antivirus development. The company now produces a wide range of consumer products, and recently it’s also been expanding into the enterprise market.
The firm’s baseline package, F-Secure Anti-Virus, caught our eye immediately with its low £19.95 ($25) one computer, one year licence. This sounded great, until we browsed the feature list, and realised just how short it was. There’s no password manager, Wi-Fi protection, banking protection, file shredder, not even browsing protection: it’s just antivirus, and that’s all.
This kind of simplicity could be an advantage, especially if you’re an experienced user and happy to combine F-Secure with your favourite URL filter, firewall and whatever other security packages you need. But if you’re a beginner, or looking for the convenience of accessing multiple functions from one interface, it’s going to be an issue.
There’s another disadvantage in the lack of bulk-buy discounting, which doesn’t go beyond a three system, one-year licence for £29.95 ($37.50). If you have multiple systems to cover, Bitdefender has a far better value 10-computer 3-year licence for £110 ($138), while McAfee charges £50 ($63) a …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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