App Review F-Secure SAFE 18.2

Thread starter Anthony Qian
Start date Feb 20, 2022

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Product name: F-Secure SAFE 18.2

Installation (rating): 5.00 star(s)

User interface (rating): 4.00 star(s)

Accessibility notes: The UI is streamlined and well-organized. But no advanced settings (heuristic sensitivity) are available and some pro users may be disappointed at this. Adding the capability to submit samples within the product would be nice.
- One star deducted for the lack of advanced settings.

Performance (rating): 5.00 star(s)

Core Protection (rating): 4.00 star(s)

Proactive protection (rating): 4.00 star(s)

Additional Protection notes: Generally good. Like many AVs using Avira engine, F-Secure is not so good at detecting script malware. Unable to remove and repair threats within archive (zip, rar....). See below for comments on DeepGuard and F-Secure Security Cloud.

Banking protection is very cool.

Internet Surf protection is so-so. The plug-in failed to block many phising sites, not as good as McAfee.

No bulit-in firewall.

Browser protection (rating): 3.00 star(s)

Positives

- Minimal setup required
- Low impact on system resources
- Lightning fast scans
- Easy to use
- Simple and non-intrusive
- Ransomware protection
- Detects or blocks in the wild malware
- Virus signatures are updated daily
- Well designed, clear and easy to use interface
- Multi-layer protection approach

Negatives

- Advanced users may want more control
- Short on configuration options
- Limited web protection
- Not as many features as some competitors

Time spent using product: Reviewed over a 30-day period

Computer specs: ThinkPad X1 Carbon (6th Gen)

Recommended for

Inexperienced users
Financial banking or trading
High-end or medium spec PCs
Low spec PCs

Overall rating: 4.00 star(s)

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May 12, 2022

Settled into using F-Secure now since I left Kaspersky with new version I dislike - I still & always will rely on multiple images backed up to external drives with music photographs/video & data - Maybe in some ways F-Secure isn't quite up to the protection of Kaspersky etc but it's very light & causes no problems - Not a problem with backups.

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