![]() ![]() Given this product’s high price, you won’t want to waste any licenses. TotalAV lets you gift unused licenses to others while giving them their own accounts. However, their installations remain part of your subscription, under your control. With any multi-license antivirus subscription, you’re free to use your licenses to protect family members. ![]() The other three invoke Password Vault, Family Account Sharing, and Settings.įamily Account Sharing is interesting. Pointing to three of them pulls out submenus for Malware Protection, Internet Security, and System Tune Up. Once you upgrade to Pro, your status switches to the serene green of full protection.Ī left-rail menu contains six icons. In the free edition, the big status indicator always displays a yellow warning status, because real-time protection isn’t (and can’t be) enabled. This product’s dark-themed main window looks almost exactly like that of the corresponding free antivirus, with one big exception. TotalAV Total Security raises that to six licenses and adds an ad blocker and a password manager, at a cost of $149 per year. TotalAV Internet Security adds VPN protection and gives you five licenses for a list price of $119 per year. Rather, if you want more licenses you must buy a more advanced product. We wouldn’t expect to see much of a performance hit for beefy desktops and laptops, but underpowered budget machines might not be as happy with this suite.Like Trend Micro Antivirus+ Security, TotalAV doesn’t offer different pricing tiers. Performance is good in a number of areas, but overall it has some improvement to do. TotalAV’s got you covered for the most common forms of malware, but its zero-day chops are concerning. The unarchive time was about a minute faster with TotalAV running, and encoding a large video file with Handbrake was nearly five minutes faster with TotalAV installed. TotalAV also shaved off about 8 seconds from the archiving test. Transferring a large set of files of around 50GB was about a minute faster with TotalAV running. Performance was a little better with our file-transfer test. TotalAV’s drop was not as drastic in the gaming section of the test, nor was the drop too bad during the rendering and visualization portion of the digital content creation test. With TotalAV Antivirus Pro installed, and after running a full system scan, PCMark 10 scored 1,602, a drop of 63 points. Without TotalAV, the test PC scored 1,665. Upgrading to the higher tiers adds a VPN with 32 country locations, and a browser add-on for blocking ads and trackers.įor our in-house performance tests, TotalAV didn’t impress in the PCMark 10 test. Still, to see this in the basic suite is a surprise.Īntivirus Pro’s internet security section (the fingerprint icon) offers protection against malicious websites, as well as a data-breach check. We aren’t huge fans of these utilities since features like this are either already built in to Windows 10 or available for fee. IDGĬlicking on the speedometer icon in the left rail shows all of the various system tune-up options available including an application uninstaller, startup manager, and browser cleanup. Typically, these types of premium features are reserved for the more expensive suites. ![]() Features like this are pretty rare on base-level antivirus programs. In our tests, it did a pretty good job of analyzing duplicate files based on their contents. The smart scan is a nice touch beyond typical malware scans, especially the duplicate finder. To access a standard security scan click on the shield icon in the left rail to see options for a full system scan, quick scans, and a customized scan. ![]()
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