K7 ULTIMATE SECURITY
K7 Ultimate Security makes it appear that it’s protecting you against far more than it is, and we find this deceptive
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5devices, £31 (£37 inc VAT)
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5devices, £53 (£63 inc VAT)
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ith so many internet security companies taking a similar approach, this year we wanted to give Indian contender K7 a try, even though only AV-Test regularly puts K7’s malware detection engine through its paces. While it failed to detect some malware in a flat-file scan of AV-Test’s huge reference cache of infected files, it scored well in real-world exposure tests and its overall performance has been going from strength to strength. The bad news is that AV-Test’s data shows that K7 notably slows down the launch of both apps and websites.