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F-Secure Total vs Malwarebytes comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

F-Secure Total
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Anti-Malware Tools (12th), Office 365 Protection (8th)
Malwarebytes
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Endpoint Security solutions, they serve different purposes. F-Secure Total is designed for Anti-Malware Tools and holds a mindshare of 6.2%, up 1.4% compared to last year.
Malwarebytes, on the other hand, focuses on Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP), holds 1.8% mindshare, up 1.7% since last year.
Anti-Malware Tools
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

MS
Easy to setup and stable solution
It's a good product for us. The reports and notifications are very good for us.  There is room for improvement in pricing.  In future releases, I would like to see improvements in EDR protection.  So, the only thing that I would like to see in the future is EDR protection and a lower price for…
Anas Anas - PeerSpot reviewer
Effective threat predictions, simple to deploy, and light on resources
Malwarebytes's initial setup is simple. It is easy to deploy and configure the policies and the configuration. I deployed Malwarebytes for one customer and I did it in under two days. They had approximately 50 users, it took approximately an hour. The steps I took for the implementation were downloading the Malwarebytes management console from the site, installing it, then running the discovery tool, scanning my network, and checking all of the PCs on my network. It's already pre-configured, you don't need to configure anything. The only configuration that I did on the administration console was some of the exclusion from the scan. This is the only rule that I have created. I rate the initial setup of Malwarebytes a ten out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It's a good product for us. The reports and notifications are very good for us."
"It gets the job done, and they are consistently updating it monthly."
"The central management of devices from different sites is a very good feature; this has made them much easier to manage."
"When it comes to frontend protections, it has some of the best definitions. In addition, they do traditional signature and heuristic detection a lot better than Microsoft and some other players in that space."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to customize for different groups."
"We have seen a decrease of approximately ninety percent in the number of events."
"The product keeps our company safe."
"This solution helps us by providing central management of anti-malware and anti-exploit functionality."
"It is intuitive and easy to use. For the most part, it does a good job of catching things. It is good at stopping stuff. I did a couple of tests with a password cracker. I tried to load that on, and Malwarebytes didn't let me do that, which was pretty good. It has a rollback feature that I haven't seen with any other company. If one of your endpoints are hit with mass ransomware, you could actually roll it back. I watched a demo of them do that, and it was pretty sweet."
 

Cons

"I would like to see in the future is EDR protection and a lower price for F-Secure Total."
"Malwarebytes is too simplistic. From a SOC IR perspective, it doesn't give you very much data around it. It doesn't tie things or provide SHA-1 and SHA-256 detection information, which makes it hard to do an additional investigation."
"The product is a little bit more expensive than the other brands."
"The reporting is not as flexible as you would find with other antivirus software."
"I really hate the automatic rebuilding without even asking. It's just an annoyance that they should at least ask me, like a month before they bill me."
"We experience a lot of false positives."
"We had a little performance problem with the solution, but that's been resolved. Since then, it's been running well."
"Every once in a while, it gets clobbered by updates from other places. I don't think this should happen."
"A solution must be installed in the main gateway to give an overview of the incoming and outgoing traffic. The technical support team's response time should be faster."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We can easily scale and improve security, but the cost is high for us."
"Yearly, it is around $50 per client."
"The price of Malwarebytes is in the middle range compared to other vendors."
"Malwarebytes is a cost-effective product."
"We expect to pay $1,000 USD a month, depending on the number of users."
"The platform pricing is competitive with other antivirus products."
"It is really expensive. We've got between 30 and 40 licenses every year, and for the number of licenses that we have, we're finding that Malwarebytes on average costs between $900 and $1,000 more per year than comparable options. We're paying about $3,300 per year for these licenses. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."
"The licensing is per seat, with clients being a little less expensive than servers. If we need more licenses, we can accomplish that within a day. As Malwarebytes adds new features to their product, such as DNS filtering and a patching module, they want to charge us more even though we're a premium user, which isn't ideal."
"Its licensing is annual. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
28%
Computer Software Company
20%
Non Profit
7%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Computer Software Company
14%
University
12%
Government
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about F-Secure Total?
It's a good product for us. The reports and notifications are very good for us.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F-Secure Total?
The product is expensive for us. We pay a little fee for the vendor data systems in some cases.
What needs improvement with F-Secure Total?
There is room for improvement in pricing. In future releases, I would like to see improvements in EDR protection. So, the only thing that I would like to see in the future is EDR protection and a l...
What do you like most about Malwarebytes?
Ten times a day, improved signatures will be downloaded, so it is very up-to-date in terms of malware experience.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Malwarebytes?
I really hate the automatic rebilling without officially confirming it with me. It's an annoyance and they should at least confirm with me, like a month before they bill me.
What needs improvement with Malwarebytes?
It takes up too much space when it's trying to run in the background.
 

Also Known As

F-Secure Elements for Microsoft 365
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