Easily, in detail slightly confusing

Is delivered in this product version is an empty folding in the format of a DVD case. Printed in the inside cover you will find the actual contests for F-Secure safe and completely inside the code for the password manager (F-Secure "KEY").

The following description refers to the use of a Windows PC (here: Windows 8.1). For my Android devices I can currently do without even a clear conscience to further protect, and Apple hardware I do not possess.

After calling up the setup website at F-Secure to sign up with names, e-mail address and the coupon code contained in the box and assigns a password. Then a small installer (800 KB) is available for download, which eventually downloads the actual installation and the installation triggers.

Installation is straightforward and also for inexperienced users from without hurdles. After the installation there in the taskbar, a new icon that you can call the Administration of F-Secure SAFE. The user interface is nicely decorated, the division and designation of points but some getting used to. On the "Status" you can eg start a scan, but no signature update. For this you need to change tab "Tools", which otherwise offers not only tools, but also a number of settings. A click on "Cleanup tool" loads a program from the network, which in turn is looking on the computer for "dangerous applications". The difference to the normal virus and spyware scan remains unclear.

By default, installed with the browser protection, its activation is at least in Internet Explorer (here: IE 11) still has to rubber-stamp the next browser start. In addition, the installation of F-Secure "SafeSearch" is offered including Toolbar automatically. It is a search service, which takes over the search results of Google and filters out potentially harmful results - may try to even without installation under search.f-secure.com. The toolbar adds its own search box for it - that only makes sense when another search provider is still standard. If you halfway know the web, what you do, you can here confidently say "No, thanks".

Well done, I find it the clear presentation of "quarantine" for suspicious files and the "application permissions" for programs that DeepGuard contained in the SAFE has attested suspicious behavior.

In runtime behavior F-Secure Safe is inconspicuous total. The system will not be slowed down noticeably, neither at system startup, even during shutdown or at the start of complex applications (have the rough times mitgestoppt).

In the F-Secure website you can maintain your own user data such as email address, name, or password, and also display the licensed (in this version) up to five devices, again refuel with F-Secure or remove them from the Subscription ,

Conclusion

The user interface is very intuitive, and some additions to the suite does not seem particularly useful to me. But real problems or deficiencies I could not discover. As for the level of security, you have to leave so independent experts in the tests (hopefully). Here intersects F-Secure in any case very well.