G Data TotalSecurity 2014

A full-scale security suite contains all the security components you need: antivirus, antispam, firewall, parental control, and some kind of privacy protection. Then there's what I call a mega-suite?a product that starts with full suite protection and adds more, much more. Backup and system tuneup are typical add-ons. G Data TotalSecurity 2014 is a perfect example, because the security tools it adds are particularly well-designed.

At $49.95 for three licenses, this suite costs just $5 more than the basic G Data InternetSecurity 2014 suite. Its bold, red-themed main window includes the SecurityCenter, Antivirus, Firewall, Parental Control, and Autostart Manager pages found in the basic G Data suite. To these it adds Backup, Tuner, and File safe (encryption). Also present, but not visible in the main window, is an unexpectedly powerful system for controlling use of removable devices.

Antivirus: Better Protection than Cleanup
The antivirus component in this suite is exactly the same as G Data AntiVirus 2014; please read that review for full details. I'll summarize here.

G Data proved quite effective at keeping malware from attacking my clean test system. It wiped out most of my samples on sight and caught a few more when I tried to launch them. It detected 92 percent of the samples and scored 9.2 of 10 possible points. Of products tested with this same malware collection, only Ad-Aware Pro Security 10.5 did better, with 94 percent and 9.2 points. Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete 2013 led the products tested under my previous malware collection, with an impressive 9.9 points.

For full details on how I test an antivirus product's ability to block malware attacks, see How We Test Malware Blocking.

G Data's attempt to clean up existing malware problems rendered two test systems unbootable, requiring arduous manual repair using G Data's Linux-based boot disk. It scored 4.3 points for malware cleanup, the lowest score among products tested with the same samples. With 6.0 points, Kaspersky PURE 3.0 Total Security topped this group. Comodo Internet Security Complete 2013, Norton 360 (2013), and Webroot all earned 6.6 points when tested with my previous collection of malware samples.

The article How We Test Malware Removal explains the methodology of my malare removal test.

The independent labs generally give good ratings to G Data's products. In particular, it earned ADVANCED+ (the top rating) in two tests by AV-Comparatives and ADVANCED in a third. The chart below summarizes recent tests. For background on the labs, see How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests

Features Shared with the Antivirus
G Data's antivirus includes a component that blocks access to malware-hosting websites; it also blocks fraudulent (phishing) websites. G Data TotalSecurity shares this component, which didn't perform as well as in past years. Its detection rate was a full 38 percentage points lower than Norton's (Norton being a consistent antiphishing champ), and it lagged 12 percentage points behind the built in SmartScreen Filter in Internet Explorer 8. The article How We Test Antiphishing explains exactly how I obtain very new phishing sites and run this test.

The Autostart manager lets you get working faster by disabling programs from launching at startup or delaying their launch by from one to ten minutes. A similar feature in Norton reports on each startup program's resource usage, but doesn't let you choose delay length.

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