Hi,
First I want to thank all those who trust us.
I though I can provide more information about the renewal strategy of F-Secure which can help users.
F-Secure like almost all other brands (excluding Emsisoft) try to push users to purchase their software directly from there.
Kaspersky, Avast and AVG, Norton and many others are the same. In case of Avast, their support even told our customers several times that their license key is not legit! And when we contacted their our account manager, they said sorry .. this was a misunderstanding. And this happened several times.
In case of F-Secure, you can always add licenses bought from their resellers and add it to your account. Actually F-Secure is kind of more fair than others mentioned as they let the user to enter their license key to their account and not directly into the software.
This way the user has the power of removing a device and adding an another one. In case of Avast this is not possible and users can not add and manage reseller licenses to their Avast account.
Here we explained that how you can activate F-Secure Safe (similar to Total Security) using a F-Secure license key:
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Finally, so far only Emsisoft has had a really clean and clear activation instructions and has been fair to their resellers.
Disclaimer:
I am not trying to advertise any brand or our shop here, you should choose an offer which is best for you. I am just trying to clarify the question which you had about F-Secure and I believe that based on our experience it was a bit unfair about F-Secure.