F-SECURE TOTAL
Reliable malware and identity protection, even if it’s a little twitchy about false positives
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5devices, £83 (£100 inc VAT)
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RENEWAL PRICE
5devices, £83 (£100 inc VAT)
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-Secure Total is F-Secure Internet Security plus a bunch of additional features. The Finnish company’s antivirus suites all use a pair of malware detection engines – Bitdefender’s Aquaris in conjunction with its own. They’re great at keeping you safe, but in AV-Comparatives’ real-world live malware exposure test run by from July to October 2024, it threw up 45 false positives. That’s no one-off, being in line with previous performances in this set of tests. The counterpoint to this is that it’s consistently strongly protective, in this case blocking 99.8% of malware.