TOTALAV ANTIVIRUS PRO

Decent value in the first year, but its renewal fees are wildly overpriced for its limited feature set

1st YEAR PRICE 5 devices, £24 (£29 inc VAT) from totalav.com RENEWAL PRICE 5 devices, £83 (£99 inc VAT) from totalav.com RETAIL PRICE Not available UK-based TotalAV’s detection engine regularly appears in AV-Test and AV-Comparatives’ tests, so we have plenty of data on how well it performs. In the latest tests by both labs, it barely outperforms Microsoft Defender, but still did well enough to effectively protect a PC. AV-Test found it protected against 100% of real-time exposure and flat file reference scan malware samples, with no false positives. It struggled more with AV-Comparatives’ tests, which saw it block 98.7% of malware with five false positives. That’s pretty good. SE Labs doesn’t test TotalAV. The basic antivirus costs as little as £29 a year with a first-year discount (you’ll see…

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