F-secure home beta

how's it going dudes? myne works fine, nice and smooth.

 

explain..........

 

Are you talking about the ISTP build?

 

http://support.f-secure.com/beta/istp.shtml
six months. is this what you were asking?

 

yah, updated 20th december 2007

 

yeah, i think most of us know it as tech preview,

i was wondering what you were talking about thats all

 

but it is going well.
There are new engine parts updated quiete often

 

sorry, i'v been testing too many betas lately..... tech preview, yes thats right
and alphas.

 

well, im a massive fan of F-Secure, i own licences now and have owned them in the past

i was an F-Secure user for many years, since backweb was a seperate program, i used to love it... and still do.

id rate F-Secure as the #1 Suite available, i really would.

 

its going really smooth except for some pauses every so often. 6 months even as a "technology preview" is a good deal.

 

Could someone tell me what all this has? I suspect firewall/av, maybe deepguard and spam filter?

thanks

 

it is the security suite but then with some new engines. Deppguard 2.0 is being tested for example

 

I agree, gave up nod's mistake ridden v3 & am using it a tad slower boot but I feel secure with it...

 

Is it still slow at windows start-up?

 

its slower than other suites to start upbut its not to bad. just test it for yourself on your pc. f-secure 2008 was a big improvement with startup speed thou.
lodore

 

maybe 45 seconds longer at boot, if that's an issue I say at least I feel secure with it & that's the bottom line isn't it...?

 

Defragging your boot files will help.

Code:

defrag -b %HOMEDRIVE%

 

use diskeeper & I used that function there , it really IMO isn't that long of a boot...

 

redid the boot sector, booted just like ESET, I didn't see a diifference, good tip, thanks...

 

tbh if you have decent hardware the startup time isnt any slower.
i imaged my system. i tested f-secure and the startup time didnt seem any slower. but then again with my high spec system its to be expected. (quad core and 2gb of ram)
i have compared the startup time with the 2007 f-secure and the 2008 f-secure on an older system. 2008 definatly loads faster.
if you have a slightly slower boottime who cares? as long as opening programs isnt slower.
i still wonder why the f-secure folder in program files is 354MB

 

I just installed a release version of F-Secure Internet Security 2008 and the installation folder is very nearly 700-MB in size. Quite astonishing at first sight.

Edit: I asked F-Secure tech support about this ridiculous use of disk space, and here is the utterly lame reply I received (paraphrased): "You can use 2006 or 2007 instead. 2006 uses half the disk space of 2008."

And people wonder why I say I hate AV software...

 

The spam/malware email scanner also doesn't support SSL. But most don't.

 

I agree with C.S.J and larryb52 that F-Secure Internet Security 2008 is great. Like larryb52, I gave up on ESET Smart Security 3.0 (after purchasing a two-year ESET renewal for two computers). Three months after the original release, ESET has yet to correct fundamental problems which have made the ESET suite useless on my network. F-Secure is so much better.

On my two computers, I experience no slowdown at all, even as the computer boots up. However, when testing F-Secure on an older computer, boot-up was noticeably slow. Still, within a minute or so after boot-up, this older computer was as fast as it had ever been.

My only complaint about F-Secure is that its spam filter does not support IMAP. The spam filter does support POP3 (which most people use), but reviews have noted that F-Secure's POP3 spam filter is not very effective.

I have disabled F-Secure's anti-spam module (easy to do). In its place, I use SpamBayes 1.1a3, which works great with IMAP (or POP3) and F-Secure. You can download it here (for free):

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61702&package_id=58141

Select spambayes-1.1a3.exe. If you have already installed F-Secure, you'll need to install SpamBayes in Safe Mode. Otherwise, the SpamBayes installation conflicts with F-Secure.