F-Secure Personal Express Beta

[Bob]

Hi,
There is a new F-secure beta:

http://fsosfi04.socfi.f-sos.net/beta/

F-Secure Personal Express protects your laptop or desktop computer aginst latest Internet threats. F-Secure Personal Express client is widely used by ISPs to protect their customers. It includes real-time virus and spy protection, personal firewall and parental- and spam-controls.

Has somebody tested this ?
Bob

[g423]

Are you sure that this link is a part of f-secure company?

[Benvan45]

Download = 65 Mb.......so.......I don't need that!

[likuidkewl]

FYI as of now the Server is acting really slow, and telling me "error 84".
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Seems to be back up but still slow only about 60k sec.

;)

[likuidkewl]

Here is a screen shot of ALL the process, and let me tell you there is alot of bloat to this thing it is coming off soon!
http://www.zer0-tec.net/likuidkewl/28mar/fsecurebloat.png

[liang_mike]

{QUOTE-> Here is a screen shot of ALL the process, and let me tell you there is alot of bloat to this thing it is coming off soon! <-QUOTE}

For me, it is not a big deal as long as CPU usage is low

[likuidkewl]

The bloat was not even the main reason why, my PC went from booting in about 45 seconds to about 3-4 minutes, for everything to load, then the application launc took about 30 seconds to a minute. This software was a HUGE impact on system resources, and that screen shot was taken with my computer idle and nothing else running resident. Way to heavy IMO. But it is still a beta, either way F-Secure is not known for being "light".

[Bob]

Installed it on a new harddisk.
This clean install worked without a problem.
Here are some screenshots:

[Bob]

This is browser Control.

[Bob]

This is System Control.

[BornMember]

hmmm... Intergrated Browser control and System control

It's looking good

Cheers Bob

[mikel108]

Thanks for the screenshots Bob. It is very much apprieciated.

[orthocross]

I downloaded this product today. Since I have a high-bandwidth broadband connection, downloading 67mb was only a few minutes of bother.

However, I have a few words to say about the product:

1) My machine became very sluggish during the installation process. The install seemed to take forever. Once it was installed, my machine returned to normal. However, previous to installing F-Secure PEX, Web browsing was fast and snappy. Now it is slow and sluggish. Since my Internet connection is very fast, normally, I can only assume that the slow-down was caused by the installation of F-Secure PEX.
2) The Automatic update only took a few minutes, but failed to install an update to Security profiles. It errored out.
3) I started a manual update over an hour ago, and currently only 51% of the update has downloaded. (The program update is 37meg). This is totally unacceptable with a 1.5mbit/sec. connection. Perhaps there is an off-line update file. If so, please let me know by posting a link to it.

[Mele20]

This sounds like the experience I had about 8 months ago on a 3Mb connection when I tried F-Secure again. It took over an hour to just download it!! Then installation took so long I finally had to cancel. I tried again later and I could not install it as it took forever. I have not seen anything before or after so sluggish to install and so slow to download.

[RobZee]

I've had the same experiences also in the past with F-Secure, even with a 3MB connection also. Not worth the performance hit.I plan to stay with Dr. Web for now.

[Bob]

I have seen on German Rokop Security forum:
http://www.rokop-security.de/index.php?showtopic=6071
that even the testers could not install F-Secure.
It seems that there are only 2 possibilities: terrible or very good. With me only NOD32 and F-Secure are very good on my system.
F-Secure also has a feedback:
http://cgi.f-secure.com/cgi-bin/pex6_feedback.cgi
I think you should send a feedback.

[Bob]

For the die hard testers.
It is now trimmed down about 18 Mb to 45 Mb.