I apologize for my previous post but didn't suggest users disable any protection, only mentioned that it may be helpful to the company in identifying a proper fix.
F-Secure 18.2 released
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- May 26, 2014
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While I am not endorsing that disabling the "tamper protection" setting is the solution and that it should be done, I personally think that this kind of protection is overrated, not only that, it has been less than 6 months that F-Secure actually implemented that and F-Secure has been a fine solution for years, the lack of "tamper protection" never harmed it by any means.
If malware got admin/system access and wants to wipe your security solution it will be done; I dont think that tamper protection is a big deal, you need to stop malware from doing harm in first place, avoiding malware persistence is fine, but it should never impact user experience.
If malware got admin/system access and wants to wipe your security solution it will be done; I dont think that tamper protection is a big deal, you need to stop malware from doing harm in first place, avoiding malware persistence is fine, but it should never impact user experience.
- Jul 27, 2015
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Agree as no lack of trying, but I haven't managed. Then again, I don't have full access to users complete machine and system configurations. Without that, it's for sure a wild western of speculation.
- Apr 24, 2016
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Ziggo Safe Online by F-Secure in now on version 18.2 
- Jan 28, 2018
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There was a suggestion on tampering prevention in the official forum. Once you've narrowed down the cause, I think it's almost time for the problem to go away.
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Ironically, I haven't had any recent shutdown delays in my environment.
F-Secure SAFE 2 minutes shutdown sometimes since 18.2 update
Hello, I've got 3 computers in my household. 2 windows 10 PC, 1 windows 8 PC.
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F-Secure did confirm the issue is Tamper Protection, same way they confirmed is perfectly safe to turn it OFF.There was a suggestion on tampering prevention in the official forum. Once you've narrowed down the cause, I think it's almost time for the problem to go away.
Ironically, I haven't had any recent shutdown delays in my environment.F-Secure SAFE 2 minutes shutdown sometimes since 18.2 update
Hello, I've got 3 computers in my household. 2 windows 10 PC, 1 windows 8 PC.
So much for making a storm in a cup of water, you all had the solution in front of you.
- Jul 27, 2015
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There was a suggestion on tampering prevention in the official forum. Once you've narrowed down the cause, I think it's almost time for the problem to go away.
F-Secure SAFE 2 minutes shutdown sometimes since 18.2 update
Hello, I've got 3 computers in my household. 2 windows 10 PC, 1 windows 8 PC.
Impossible mission to say the least, and not much one can do with that type of Security " advices " when one of their employees even makes it an official statement. I just sincerely genuine hope that both HR and legal department feels and thinks the exact same, and not dead easy spot the risk of very costly unnecessary legal ramifications. Not my headache and hopefully I'm wrong.
Create and implement a default security protection feature and even turn it ON by default in the first place, if it's Safe without. Sounds brilliant!
- Jan 28, 2018
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I thought the shutdown delay was not a problem, but a specification of this software. That's my impression.
I welcome the improvement, but there is no problem, so I use it as it is.
Comments on the official forum. I think there was a comment that "If tamper-proof is turned off, Windows security alerts appear, so you don't have to worry about emergencies.".
In that case, it seems to contradict the tamper-resistant implementation.
- Jul 26, 2012
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Feedback after upgrading:
I just upgraded to win 11 pro and I started to see incredible sluggish startup and shutdown times of the laptop. On win 10 pro never had any problems.
I switched to a clean snapshot of win 11 without f-secure installed and all works like a charm.
- Apr 24, 2016
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And what if you turn tamper protection off?
- Jul 27, 2015
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Just checked their official forum again. Talk about inconsistent issue/solutions and I cross my fingers the developers are able to solve it soon. I don't doubt that they actually will, but because this problem is for some very confirmed and for others non existing ( myself included ), it might take a little while. Might be interesting to watch their beta version 18.3 as it have been released and now getting updates, and hopefully when that is released as stable, it's fixed unless they manage to send a separate update sooner.
- Jul 26, 2012
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Didn't bother to test it with tamper protection off, but I will test it later today and give you the feedback. Hope I don't forget..
- Jan 28, 2018
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I'm currently trying 18.3 beta. There is no difference from 18.2 in terms of shutdown delay. In rare cases, it may be late.
- Jul 26, 2012
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Feedback:Didn't bother to test it with tamper protection off, but I will test it later today and give you the feedback. Hope I don't forget..
Turned tamper protection off and the pc started and shut down properly. But this happened to me only on win 11 pro. On win 10 pro never had any issues with f-secure. Odd, odd, odd!!
- May 29, 2021
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I spoke to f-secure today on the phone, and there was hope that this would be fixed about Wednesday next week. Let's hope so
- May 29, 2021
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I got this problem yesterday with win 8.1 until I turned of tamper protection.
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- May 29, 2021
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Today started a nightmare with win 10. I surfed with Firefox, and had several tabs open, then suddenly I could not open any of them everything was frozen. I turned off Firefox and restarted, but after a few minutes the same thing happened again. This has never happen to me before.
Restarted the machine but it did not help. I also discovered when I kept the cursor on the desktop and scrolled with the mouse wheel, all the writing under the icons became larger, or smaller, which way I scrolled. The first thought that struck me was, f-secure 18.2? I opened it and turned off the tamper protection, and quite rightly, the problem disappeared. I had no issues with restart or turning off with win 10 home, but got this error and wonder, has anyone else experienced this?
Restarted the machine but it did not help. I also discovered when I kept the cursor on the desktop and scrolled with the mouse wheel, all the writing under the icons became larger, or smaller, which way I scrolled. The first thought that struck me was, f-secure 18.2? I opened it and turned off the tamper protection, and quite rightly, the problem disappeared. I had no issues with restart or turning off with win 10 home, but got this error and wonder, has anyone else experienced this?
- Jul 26, 2012
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Not really. Only the boot and shutdown time were affected in my case. I switched to norton for the time being. I hope f-secure solves their problems soon.
Today started a nightmare with win 10. I surfed with Firefox, and had several tabs open, then suddenly I could not open any of them everything was frozen. I turned off Firefox and restarted, but after a few minutes the same thing happened again. This has never happen to me before.
Restarted the machine but it did not help. I also discovered when I kept the cursor on the desktop and scrolled with the mouse wheel, all the writing under the icons became larger, or smaller, which way I scrolled. The first thought that struck me was, f-secure 18.2? I opened it and turned off the tamper protection, and quite rightly, the problem disappeared. I had no issues with restart or turning off with win 10 home, but got this error and wonder, has anyone else experienced this?
- Dec 7, 2021
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Had the long shutdown (2 mins or more) on this Windows 11 system, although it was a 10 upgraded to 11 preview last June so had many fixes etc - Anyway decided to do a clean install of 11 a couple of weeks or less ago & tried SAFE with exactly the same result very slow shutdown & for me unusable, unchecked Tamper & starts & shutdowns fine - A reasonably new build Ryzen 5 - 5600X - 32 GIG Vengeance RAM - No other problems
- May 26, 2014
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It is a minor issue for sure, but I already uninstalled F-Secure for good, there are many other viable alternatives out there, so there is no point sticking with faulty software.
