We ran PCMark Professional before and after installing 360 Total Security and there was only a couple of points difference in our score, within the range of error we would expect from comparing two runs. That's no great surprise when you look at all the features you're getting, though, and it didn't seem to make the tiniest difference to performance. Bitdefender Antivirus Plus looks similar at $25 for its own one-year, three-device license, but that's only because of the introductory discount: it jumps to $60 a year when you renew. A one-year, three-device license is just $27 opt for two years and it's $50, and a three-year deal is only $53.

Prices start at a low $20 to cover one device for a year. A firewall protects your network, a data shredder securely deletes confidential files, it can automatically update drivers, there's anti-tracking, scheduled system cleaning and 'privileged access to tech support', plus it drops all the ads in the free edition. There's better antivirus, including detection of fileless attacks.

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Still, there's no doubt the free edition has a lot of functionality, and upgrading to the paid version, 360 Total Security Premium, gets you even more. In particular, when we reviewed 360 Total Security a couple of years ago, it included the excellent Bitdefender and Avira engines - they seem to have been dropped. The free version includes most of the key features: antivirus, anti-ransomware, malicious website filtering, a sandbox, ad blocking, browser settings protection, Windows cleanup and optimization tools, and more. You can jump to the reviews of those individual products by clicking on the links in the bar at the top of this page.ģ60 Total Security is a security and PC maintenance suite from the Chinese developer Qihoo 360 Software. (b) our review of the paid-for version 360 Total Security Premium (a) a full evaluation of the free product 360 Total Security, and On this page, after our brief intro, you’ll find This is our all-in-one roundup reviewing Qihoo 360's consumer security solutions for 2021.

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