TrustPort Total Protection 2013

By Neil J. Rubenking

Antivirus protection and a firewall are the core of any security suite, and most suites add a standard set of features including spam filtering and parental control. Encryption and access control can also be useful, especially in a business setting, but these features are less common. TrustPort Total Protection 2013 ($69.95 direct; $89.95 for three licenses) offers the same suite components as TrustPort's basic suite and adds a range of encryption and access control features that will please the tech-savvy user. Yes, you pay more for the mega-suite, but you get your money's worth.

Just looking at this product, you'd be hard pressed to distinguish it from TrustPort Internet Security 2013. The main window is the same, the color scheme is the same. The only visible difference is the product name in the title bar. Under the hood, though, there's a lot more.

TrustPort Total Security 2013 shares quite a lot of features with TrustPort Internet Security 2013 and TrustPort Antivirus 2013. You'll want to read those reviews for full details. I'll summarize here, and then dig into the features specific to the mega-suite.

Shared Antivirus
I had next to no trouble installing TrustPort on my 12 malware-infested test systems. I did need to generate a bootable Windows PE antivirus CD on a clean system to get past problems with two of the 12, but it did the job easily.

TrustPort's low score of 4.7 for malware removal reflects the fact that it didn't effectively clean up the malware samples it found. It left behind quite a few executables, many of them still running. Among products tested with this same set of samples, only G Data TotalSecurity 2014 scored lower, with 4.3 points. At 6.0 points, Kaspersky PURE 3.0 Total Security did the best in this group. For details about how I test malware removal, see How We Test Malware Removal.

TrustPort tied with Ad-Aware Pro Security 10.5 for best detection rate (94 percent) in my malware blocking test, and tied with G Data TotalSecurity 2014 for second-best malware blocking score overall, 9.0 points. Looking at products tested with my previous malware collection, Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete 2013 led the pack with 9.9 points. To learn how I run the malware blocking test, see How We Test Malware Blocking.

The independent testing labs mostly ignore TrustPort, unfortunately. West Cost Labs does certify TrustPort's technology for virus detection and removal, and TrustPort got VB100 certification in eight of the last ten tests by Virus Bulletin. The chart below summarizes recent lab results; for more about these tests, see How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests.

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