F-Secure Internet Security 2012

If you can tolerate some sluggishness, F-Secure Internet Security 2012 ($60 for one year and three PCs as of January 25, 2012), which placed eighth in our 2012 roundup of security suites, will protect your PC pretty well.

Effective at blocking malware

Occasionally sluggish performance

The latest F-Secure suite is quite capable of keeping your machine safe, but it may drag your PC down at times.

The latest F-Secure suite is quite capable of keeping your machine safe, but it may drag your PC down at times.

Following a banner year in 2011, the new F-Secure Internet Security 2012 doesn't introduce many new changes, but it does maintain many of the suite's high performance marks on both system impact and security.

Parole" system for potential malware is clever ; Reasonably short scan times, and minimal boot time impact

Interface needs some heavy reworking ; No silent mode ; Doesn't keep up with the competition, feature-wise

F-Secure falls a bit short where it's always struggled: with the value-added, high-end features. Even some basic pay-for-play suite components like a silent running entertainment mode or browser support for Google Chrome are absent. However, there's no...

Ex-Spitzenreiter Norton hat sich selbst geschlagen: Die F-Secure Internet Security 2012 geht ohne großen Neuerungen ins neue Jahr, zieht aber dennoch an den Konkurrenten vorbei.

Nahezu perfekte Malware-Erkennung ; Guter Webfilter ; Hohe Desinfektionsrate

Spürbare Systembelastung ; hoher Preis

Beim Design geht F-Secure 2012 einen neuen, ungewöhnlichen Weg: Ein Klick auf die Desktopverknüpfung ruft nicht das Hauptmenü auf, sondern ein Launchpad. Die ersten beiden Schaltflächen bieten Zugriff auf die Bestandteile "Computer Security" und...