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March 12, 2000 | Text: Markus Selinger | Awards
AV-TEST Award 2025 for F-Secure
For quite some time, robust cybersecurity has not only been a guarantor of data protection. In times of ransomware, infostealers and other dangerous malware, it is all the more important to provide all-round protection, e.g. for identities, financial, system and network information. AV-TEST experts in the test labs ascertain in thousands of tests which protection products on the market keep their protection promise for Windows, Mac and Android, and based on the findings, the lab issues certificates for tested security. The AV-TEST Awards 2025 mark the 15th time that the institute has recognized the best security products for consumer users and companies that have consistently proven themselves with top scores in all tests. F-Secure Total receives the coveted Best Usability Award for Consumer Users for its outstanding test performance under Windows in 2025.
AV-TEST Award 2025
for F-Secure
AV-TEST Award – for tested and reliable IT security
There are many product reviews on the Internet. But truly professional tests always adhere to standards and are therefore fully comprehensible and reproducible at all times – as has been the case with all tests in the labs of the AV-TEST Institute for over 20 years.
All tested products for Windows, Mac and Android platforms for consumer users or corporate users are subject to these test standards, which can also be viewed on the AV-TEST website. The testers document the test findings with great reliability and extreme precision. They only award a certificate for tested security if a product fulfills the set test criteria in the evaluated areas of Protection, Performance and Usability. If the results are outstanding, products also earn further recognition as a TOP PRODUCT.
Along with testing Windows solutions at set intervals, the laboratory also carries out Advanced Threat Protection tests, or ATP tests for short. In these special tests, the security products have to prove themselves repeatedly in real-life scenarios in which, depending on the threat situation, the latest attack techniques from ransomware and infostealers are deployed.
All products continuously proving themselves in the ongoing tests by achieving top scores are found in the latest AV-TEST Awards 2025 evaluation matrix. This year, the test experts at the AV-TEST Institute are presenting 25 awards to 12 different manufacturers. The awards are available in 11 categories, divided into Protection, Performance, Usability and Advanced Protection under Windows. Added to this are Mac Security and Android Security. Every manufacturer can rightfully take pride in their award – some of them even with several awards – as the pathway to one of the coveted trophies is long. Consumer users and corporate users can quickly identify reliable and continuously tested protection products on the basis of the award. In doing so, they acquire an important element of security or may even already be making use of it.
AV-TEST Award for F-Secure – special recognition for strong IT security
The deluge of dangerous files and applications that could wind up in Windows systems is growing day by day. Considering the overall flood of new data, there is a vast number of harmless files or programs that protection solutions ought to always detect as such without any glitches. If this is not the case, a security package triggers a false alarm, blocks applications or files and becomes a source of nuisance for Windows user.
In all laboratory tests over the year 2025 in the area of usability under Windows, F-Secure Total showed how error-free, and thus how securely, it distinguishes between benign and malicious programs or files. For this special achievement, the Finnish company F-Secure receives the Best Usability 2025 Award for Consumer Users for its Total product.
"Private users have a lot of trust in a secure Windows system. It is vital for a security product not to trigger any false alarms and thus unsettle users. The developers of F-Secure Total showed the AV-TEST lab team throughout the year just how reliably their product can distinguish between harmless and dangerous files in all tests and thus presented its users with no false alarms. For this special achievement, F-Secure has earned the Best Usability Award for Consumer Users, which we are pleased to present", says Marcel Wabersky, Lead Mobile & Network Testing at AV-TEST.
