The spam emails keep flooding through to your Inbox, not the Junk file even. They offer total software virus protection, safe web browsing and VPN but it doesn't work. That said, we’re not sure we would buy TotalAV Essential Antivirus just for those.Do NOT trust your phones, tablets, laptops etc. We’ve awarded TotalAV Essential Antivirus two stars because the other tools you get as part of the package are surprisingly decent, especially the VPN tool and duplicate file finder. Its on-demand scanning fared better, but was still not as good as most of the other antimalware apps we’ve reviewed. The important fact that TotalAV Essential Antivirus failed to catch all but two of the 26 malware samples is very disappointing. For example, while it found duplicate photos, it didn’t show previews of them, forcing us to open them in Finder to ensure they are actually identical. The duplicates finder was also effective in our tests, although the user interface was a little primitive. Ever wanted to appear to the Internet as if you’re online in Moldova, or Malaysia, or New Zealand? Well, now you can. VPN tool with perhaps the biggest range of end-points we’ve ever seen, featuring most major countries of the world. Users should bear this in mind, because it isn’t obvious.Įlsewhere TotalAV Essential Antivirus offers a cornucopia of add-on tools. We had to select to do this by clicking to review the scan results. Notably, it didn’t automatically delete or quarantine them. This time it caught most of them, with the exception of three. We then ran a full system scan to see if TotalAV Essential Antivirus would spot the many malware samples that now littered the hard disk.

We couldn’t check to see what malware the app claims to catch, via the VirusTotal database, because TotalAV isn’t listed there. Out of 26 malware samples, TotalAV Essential Antivirus caught just two, and was only able to remove one of them. When we looked, the malware hadn’t been deleted. After waiting 10 minutes, we had to Force Quit.

However, TotalAV Essential Antivirus froze with the pinwheel of death when we asked it to delete the malware. Then it failed to spot several more malware samples we unzipped, before it caught another-this time the Proton malware. We opted to have TotalAV Essential Antivirus delete it. TotalAV Essential Antivirus caught the MaMi malware. And then something actually quite shocking occurred.

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