Given this product’s high price, you won’t want to waste any licenses. Many antivirus companies pack full protection into their free product, relying on added features or a personal-use-only clause to drive sales of the paid version. In a very unusual move, TotalAV not only removes bonus features, it also strips essential real-time protection from TotalAV Free Edition. As you can see from the review, we’re not impressed with that move.Īt the time of our previous review, TotalAV detected 89% of the verified phishing sites, which is better than many competitors. In the latest test, that score dropped to an unimpressive 73%. F-Secure and McAfee managed 100% detection in their latest rounds of testing, while Bitdefender and Norton detected 99%. We start the hands-on malware protection test by opening a folder full of malware samples that we’ve curated and analyzed. For many products, the tiny file access that occurs when Windows Explorer gets each file's name and size is enough to trigger a real-time scan. Others wait until just before the sample executes to activate a real-time scan. Lacking any real-time protection, the free TotalAV antivirus did neither of those. Rather than score it a big fat zero, we gave it credit for removing 85% of the samples during its required install-time scan-quite a bit better than in its last review.
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