Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2178 in Software
• Brand: F-Secure
• Released on: 2008-10-31
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

Everything you need to stay safe online
F-Secure Internet Security 2009 provides a complete and easy-to-use protection against all Internet threats, whether they are known or previously unidentified. It includes an award-winning antivirus, powerful antispyware, easy-to-use personal firewall, and updated DeepGuard 2.0 technology with network based recognition of malicious software that constantly monitors the very heart of your computer, ensuring that no malicious programs can take over your computer. In addition, the product filters unwanted spam and so-called phishing attempts from your e mail, and with parental control, you can easily block access to websites with questionable content.

DeepGuard 2.0 - Protect Yourself Against the Unknown
Fast spreading hidden attacks are a major problem on the Internet. Designed by money-driven online criminals to get financial rewards, these attacks often go unnoticed and cause irreparable loss of data or identity. F-Secure Internet Security comes with intelligent DeepGuard 2.0 technology that protects you against anything that might be a sign of danger in your computer, stopping it on its tracks, automatically.

Protect your Privacy with Antispyware
Spyware can secretly track your surfing habits, abuse your Internet connection by sending data to a third party, profile your shopping preferences or hijack your web browser. F-Secure Internet Security protects your privacy by detecting and removing such software from your computer.

Stay Free from Spam and Phishing Attempts
The amount of spam is increasing as well as the number of e-mail schemes designed to get you to unknowingly disclose your private information. With F-Secure Internet Security, you can protect yourself against these rapidly growing problems. F-Secure Internet Security detects and filters spam and phishing attempts in e-mails.

Parental Control with Time Lock and User Profiles
The Parental Control feature ensures that your children do not enter questionable web sites or use the Internet when you are not around. You can also define age-based user profiles that have different access levels to the Internet content.

With daily automatically updated virus protection from the world-renowned F-Secure Data Security Laboratory and F-Secure DeepGuard 2.0 that protects you against zero-day attacks and other future threats, you can safely use your computer, now and tomorrow.

F-Secure Internet Security removes secretly installed software from your computer, ensuring that your system is running smoothly and clean of spyware.

You keep your private data to yourself with the personal firewall that stops hackers from breaking into your computer.

F-Secure Internet Security detects and filters unwanted spam and e-mail schemes designed to steal your private information.

F-Secure Internet Security ensures that your children do not enter objectionable sites or surf the Internet when you are not around.

Zero-day attacks are a new type of threat that can break into your computer even if you have up-to-date security software installed. F-Secure DeepGuard detects and prevents any suspicious activity that might indicate a danger in your computer. Rootkits are also detected and removed.

Certain web sites can infect your computer even if you do not download anything from the web site. Web Traffic Scanning protects you against this problem.

POP3, IMAP and SMTP traffic are scanned for viruses so that you do not have to worry about infected e-mails.

F-Secure Internet Security is extremely easy to install and use. As the software is highly automated, you do not have to understand the complexities of data security.

Immediate reaction times and fast cures during new and emerging threats ensured by F Secure Research Team working 24 hours a day.

News about virus outbreaks is delivered straight to your computer. This ensures that you get information about new viruses and their behavior immediately, as well as the instructions on how to avoid the infection and a confirmation whether your computer is already protected against the latest threat.

F-Secure Internet Security uses multiple scanning engines, bringing you the very best in detection and disinfection. Each of the scanning engines is specialized in detecting a different type of malware. It is like having several antivirus products running in your computer at the same time!

Learn about product features and functions. This easy to use tutorial provides answers to many essential questions on how to use the software.

F-Secure Internet Security has a clear user interface, including an easily accessible electronic manual. Both the software and electronic manual are available in your language.

Customer Reviews

Good product that does it's job very well
I have had F-Secure for several years and recently upgraded to this latest version. I have a 1.8Ghz dual core with 1Gb RAM and I have not noticed any decrease in performance.

I've also had a search around on the web and a company called 'Virus Bulletin' have tested a load of products and F-Secure came out second overall. As far as I'm concerned it does the job better than most and it is there to stop viruses at the end of the day, so even if it did slow my PC down a bit I wouldn't mind!

All in all a good product that I have installed and forgotten about which is what I want.

It's the virus checker of choice for me - but it's not perfect and it can be expensive for more than three PCs
I originally got F-Secure free for home-use from my workplace [UCL], so I've got used to the software over the last 8 years. The software installs, and importantly uninstalls easily, leaving no nasty aftertaste as was common with Norton Anti-Virus. The only things you have to really remember to do is to go to 'advanced, firewall, settings' and select your network card and register it as trusted [otherwise it'll be blocked], plus switch off Windows Firewall as FSecure has it's own superior one [my installation did this for me]. This software is expensive to update every year though, so I tend to keep the old engines for a year or two - you do need internet access to get the constant virus updates for your particular engine [software version]. I haven't noticed much of a hit on PC speed with F-Secure installed and I leave the virus checker running during disk defragments etc with no problems. F-Secure can take an age to load [1 minute+] on start-up though if your PC is cluttered with junk, and there's little point in touching the PC until the little F-Secure triangle appears in the Windows task-bar. That said F-Secure 2009 appears to load noticeably faster under XP than my previous version [F-Secure Anti-Virus v7.0].

I now work at Oxford Uni and get Sophos free from work. However for home use I've stuck with paying out my own cash for F-Secure as it offers far more control in [un]blocking software. With Sophos it can be a life or death stuggle to install software it takes exception to [which can be a lot of odd scientific packages that go places consumer software doesn't] and it offers little user control. With F-Secure, once you get used to it, you can easily unblock files that have been incorrectly assigned. The only downside with F-Secure is that it can be expensive when you have 4 PCs in the house, and it's often over-zealous in bashing suspect code. We have many simple Big Fish/Spin-Top type games and their dial-home DRM is frequently detected as spyware and the game gets blocked - but you can put the exe file on the F-Secure trusty list and perhaps switch off 'application control' to stop this. That's F-Secure's strong point, user control, you switch on/off bits while still leaving the basic anti-virus software running. However unblock nasty code and your PC will be at high risk, so tread carefully.

F-Secure has: Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing, Anti-Rootkit, Firewall, DeepGuard 2.0, Parental Control, Automatic Updates [via internet], and offers 'fast and easy installation for Windows XP and Vista'. I haven't activated 'parental' or 'spam' control. Only downside with F-Secure is that the engine licence expires after 1 year, although I expect virus updates will remain free [I'll find out in 1 year] - but this Amazon pack does have three licences [for 3 PCs]. FSeecure doesn't seem to do much about some malware, e.g. unblockable adware pop-ups of advertising that 'infect' Internet explorer when you visit a dodgey site, so try PCTools Spyware Doctor or MalwareBytes anti-malware [the latter can fix some malware for free]. Plus PCPro prefer A-Listed Avira Premium Security Suite and BullGuard Internet Security 8.5 over FSecure, and comment on FSecure's large RAM footprint and relative sluggishness, so check those out as well.

Getting to grips with F-Secures options can take a while to get over the learning curve though, as there's lots you can twiddle about with. In fact my daughter's laptop recently refused to connect to the internet. I checked the approx ~100 allowed/blocked files in F-Secure Application Control and all seemed fine. Yonks later, after re-installing the laptop wireless drivers and 'unloading' F-Secure made no difference, I had another look. In Application Control I found that Internet Explorer was actually on the naughty list [blocked], and I'd missed it the first time. Two seconds later, with IE unblocked [Allow], the internet was working again. Until then, the laptop was telling me the internet connection was fine, but Internet Explorer just came up with the standard 'can't display' page. My daughter had obviously answered unwisely during a IE update [I've now installed Mozilla FireFox to double check next time]. At least I had the control in F-Secure to find out what was wrong and correct it. So I'll give it 4 stars. It's just the high pricing that loses it a star - although it's often cheaper to buy FSecure from re-sellers such as Amazon. However for just a few quid more than a single [full price] licence you can get a three PC home licence pack - and this pack allows the one to three installations [3 PCs]. And so far I haven't had a virus hit on any of our home PCs for over 10 years using this product.

Like the curates egg...only good in parts
I used F-Secure in 2007 and found it to be excellent. Unfortunately the 2009 verision has proved to be far less effective. Recently I was hit by a Trojan which F-Secure (even though my settings were med /high) not only allowed through into my C Drive but it also failed delete. The F-Secure telephone help line also failed to provide a solution. Then, a few days later, an e-mail bearing the words HI5...was allowed onto Outlook Express. Thats right, the PC equivalent of HIV. The end result is that I have spent 12 hours re-installing my original settings in order to clean my hard drive . Sorry, but I have lost confidence in F- Secure. Any suggestions?