#Review f secure full

#Review f secure full

A quick scan of 8,708 key system files took only 8.9 seconds, while a full scan of 108,827 files was done in 9 minutes and 48 seconds. That said, heavy system impacts often are the results of very rapid scans - and, indeed, F-Secure Anti-Virus' scans were some of the fastest on the market. In other words, this is an AV product that can slow down your system both when it's actively scanning and when it's working in the background.

The benchmark's 11:00 completion time during a full scan indicated a slowdown of 60.6 percent - again one of the biggest we've seen.

The OpenOffice test finished in 8:20 during a quick scan - 21.6 percent more slowly than the baseline. System slowdowns were even more substantial while F-Secure Anti-Virus ran active scans. In the charts below, you can see that F-Secure's malware protection holds its own against two antivirus brands whose products often top our rankings. Ideally, you don't want any false positives at all. Yet it also registered a remarkably high rate of false positives - harmless software flagged as malware - on all platforms except Windows 10. Oddly, F-Secure software was a bit better at thwarting previously unseen zero-day malware than at stopping widespread, known threats. Antivirus Performanceį-Secure's twin antivirus engines provide nearly perfect protection against malware on all versions of Windows, based on analysis by the European independent labs AV-TEST and AV Comparatives. For those who don't want interruptions, there's a Game Mode that stops updates and intrusions during certain activities. The software handles pesky potentially unwanted apps and ransomware (a type of malware that prevents users from accessing the system unless they pay a 'ransom' fee) through its real-time behavioral scanning, but it lacks the ability to proactively protect key files from ransomware attacks.

F-Secure Anti-Virus also scans email attachments, and has a sandbox for safely running any suspected malware. Scans can also be set to ignore specific apps and files, but the software won't automatically examine an inserted USB drive or SD card.