It would be great if it had a password-protection feature. I would recommend it for general users and those in search of security software with parental control.
F-Secure 19.0 released
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- Mar 2, 2023
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Depending on if I turn VPN on and off and restart it to connect to the fastest server, can make a difference. The faster one tonight is connecting to Texas, and the slower one to Kansas. It also passes the ipleak test.
Is it necessary to install the browser extension for parental control?
- Apr 16, 2017
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Not an expert, but after you install FS and open a browser, you should get a popup advising you to install the FS extension for online protection, but not sure what or where parental controls are, perhaps in the vpn, but I rarely use the FS vpn.
- Jan 27, 2018
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I think it runs light but that's subjective.
Easy to use gui.
Minimal popups.
Very good protection imo.
Updates very quickly.
No complaints here.
Easy to use gui.
Minimal popups.
Very good protection imo.
Updates very quickly.
No complaints here.
- Mar 30, 2022
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I was about to note you have to look for the WithSecure processes these days. Good job @Oldie1950 !
- Mar 2, 2023
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With my 8GB of Ram PC, and using F-Secure Total, I took off the VPN process, here's where I'm at (no browser was running, Windows 11).
- May 29, 2021
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I have 12 GB ram, f-secure and using my browser.
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I'm newer to F-Secure, but on the bottom right corner of the About page, is that the build number?
How long will it take before the beta version 19.1 (it started on Feb 16) will come out, and with a new version, does it usually require a restart that we'll be notified of?
TIA
How long will it take before the beta version 19.1 (it started on Feb 16) will come out, and with a new version, does it usually require a restart that we'll be notified of?
TIA
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Hi what is the 342.9 mb for?
- Mar 30, 2022
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I do not know that either. I suspect that F-Secure adjusts the memory usage to the available memory. I have 16GB of storage.
- Dec 7, 2021
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Runs well on this PC but have 32 gig memory, I don't spend much time looking at the memory stats any-more, I like a quiet PC and if I hear the fans I know it's under load - At the moment I'm using Emsisoft & recently Emsisoft & F-Secure seem to run similar, I really like both.
- Jan 27, 2018
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Mine on a 11 year old desktop with 12 gb of ram. Causing 0 issues.
- Apr 16, 2017
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326.6 mb memory WithSecure hosting service... on my win10 VM with 16 gb RAM. Light and smooth...
- Mar 30, 2022
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I have also tried Emsisoft for a long time. Emsisoft slows down my PC extremely every time the signatures are updated. Firefox e.g. does not start at the moment or only partially. So only the outer frame of Firefox appears, but no web content. Several seconds then pass before the selected website finally appears. It can't be the internet connection because I have a fiber optic connection with 600 Mbps.
- Mar 2, 2023
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Yep, from what all of us have posted the higher the Ram we have, the higher the WithSecure hosting service will be. It is the scanning core of F-Secure:
F-Secure Ultralight Hoster ?
What does this process (under F-Secure Host Process) do? I noticied today that my PC was running hot and found that the Ultralight (not so light) Hoster is running at 16-30% CPU all the time. Never noticed it prior to today. I stopped the process from task manager and issue went away...
community.f-secure.com
Bitdefender tends to do the same thing on PC's, but can be a bit sporadic with how much and how long the process will stay on the higher end (bdservicehost/Virus shield).
Here are some examples from 4 PC's I have F-Secure Total installed on.
