F-Secure

The latest Whole Product Dynamic tests by AVC indicate that F-Secure is a top tier AV.
I used it in the past and liked it. I am not sure why I changed.

I don't see much about it on the forum, and it is hard to find a deal for it. Anyone a fan of F-Secure and know of any great bargains?

At this point in time I am not planning to go to it, but who knows in the future??

Regards,
Jerry

 

It's on sale right now for a limited time.

http://www.f-secure.com/en_US/

 

Thanks, but I did not see a sale.
Jerry

 

The big banner on the screen? "Save $20".

 

Even I can see it through my glasses

39.99 before 59.99! Great price for great protection

 

It probably slowed some aspects of your system.

 

It is an awesome AV and Deepguard is quite powerful. If I were to use a quasi-traditional AV it would be this one. I use it on about 500 machines at work and it hasn't let me down yet. However, it does use at least 9 processes so those who are paranoid and/or allergic to many processes probably want to use something else. While some have reported a slow down on browsing specifically I haven't noticed that on any of the machines I service.

 

I tried it not long ago (the 2011 version), and it felt light and nice. It did start like a dozen processes, though, and I am quite allergic to that.

 

Evidently I have the wrong glasses as it is not on my screen. Maybe it is not available for the US. However, $39.95 is too expensive. Thanks for the help.

Regards,
Jerry

 

I must have the same glasses as you, Jerry, because I don't see it either. I'm still seeing the regular price.

 

I think it is 'cause you are from Alabama--and I from New Mexico It must not be offered to the USA.

Jerry

 

its there for me in the usa

 

OK, I cannot read, but I can look at pictures. DUH
Thanks,
Jerry

 

How could anybody not see that? Thanks!

 

Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.

 

It's even visible in Texas!

 

howz this on system resources..

 

Check the Performance tests at AV-Comparatives and you can see how it stacks up against the competition.

 

Give the beta a shot if you haven't. Seems pretty stable since they fixed a few bugs and added support for FF5 in the recent beta release. I've thrown about 20 malware samples at it and it detected them all so far.

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=302128

http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA-Labs/beta-programs/home-users-beta/IS2012beta/

 

thats one problem i always had with fsecure its was one of the heaviest i ever used

 

i agree

 

Every time I've tried F-Secure it has quite a few services running and uses a relatively large amount of RAM but it has never felt "heavy" (i.e., CPU use and utilization isn't that noticeable). Just really don't understand why they can't reduce the number of services and RAM use but it's not that big of a deal if you have the RAM.

My only other thing about F-Secure is that, at least where I live in the U.S., you can't get great deals on it like you can on most other antimalware software. If they offered similar deals, I'd probably run F-Secure.

 

+1
As long that I don't feel a slowdown of the system, then I really dont care about the amount of ram a AV will use (roughly speaking),... if I was so afraid of that i would not have been using Eset Smart Seurity/Nod32. When I tried F-secure I didn't felt a slowdown of the PC, but then again you can have two almost identical system setup and still come out with different experiences.

 

hmm i have 16gb ram and a 9600k oc'ed to about 5g with ssd drives and i can still tell when when fsecure is running... its not that it drags everything down to nothing but def way heavier than others especially at boot up and opening files etc the three for me that do this are fsecure bitdefender and panda. even gdata has been better for some reason

 

I find it to be a bit heavier than NIS 2011, that I was using before F-Secure. Nothing too serious. I got a quadcore with 4GB RAM.