![]() "There are many more security and privacy vulnerabilities for consumers today," said Elizabeth Parks, President and CMO, Parks Associates. The amount of livestream video viewed has increased substantially, from less than two hours per week in 2018 to nearly five hours per week in 2022, driving a need for higher, more reliable broadband speeds. Now 52% of households report they do more online shopping than before 2020, and 23% of households report working at home. Parks Associates research shows that consumers have substantially increased viewing on livestreamed content, have increased ownership of devices, and spend substantial time on online activities. In partnership with F-Secure, the research firm will host the webinar "Protecting the Connected Consumer: Role of Data Security" on Thursday, April 27, at 11 AM CT. Although it’s easy to toggle restrictions on or off using the master password, that isn’t enough in our search for security perfection.52% of households report they do more online shopping now than before 2020ĭALLAS, Ap/PRNewswire/ - Parks Associates, a leading market research and consulting company, will address the growing online threats against consumers as their use of connected devices and services continues to grow, increasing their reliance on connectivity. However, F-Secure didn’t pass our parental-control test, because it applies restrictions globally rather than on an individual account basis. Parental control has improved with the addition of a child time-lock feature to enable appropriate times for online activity and these, combined with the highly configurable content-filtration categories, make for solid protection from unwanted content for all the family. F-Secure successfully trapped 96 per cent of the spam we threw at it, and only 20 messages were wrongly identified as spam, giving a truly excellent false-positive rate of 0.2 per cent. This, combined with the existing F-Secure SpamLab update service, seamless Outlook integration and advanced content-analysis technology made for quite remarkable filtering considering there was no training session involved. By adding real-time blackhole listing, F-Secure draws upon a database of verified spammer IP addresses, as well as those of known affiliated services to aid the identification of phishing emails. Not so when it comes to anti-spam, where F-Secure managed to surpass last year’s already impressive test performance. ![]() ![]() As expected, F-Secure had no problems in passing our anti-virus tests. These are used to hide malware out of sight of Windows by operating at kernel-mode level rather than user-mode level. Its F-Prot anti-virus scanner broke the mould by introducing heuristic scanning, and now it’s among the first to introduce specific protection against rootkits. This attention to detail extends to the tray icon, from where you can scan the system for spyware and check a target or your hard disk for viruses.į-Secure has always been at the centre of anti-virus developments. ![]() This is the hallmark of a truly integrated suite even where components are based on third-party products, such as the spyware detection, they’ve been tweaked enough that the joins don’t show. However, you can drill down through these same screens to gain access to ever-more advanced configuration options while retaining the same look and feel throughout. The central management control console remains a delight to use thanks to the simplicity of the at-a-glance screens, which provide quick overviews of current security status. All of this in less than half the time it took Norton to install. After installation, and the subscription validation check, a Security Wizard guides you through default browser and email client options, and then offers to enable parental controls. Whether you take this route or not, F-Secure will scan for the Klez virus at the start of the process, removing it before continuing with the installation. F-Secure ensures confidence is inspired right from the start, with an option on the installation menu to scan the computer before installing.
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