How can I update F-Secure Antivirus manually?

Zoltan94

Hello!

My program seems not updating itself. How can I update F-Secure Antivirus manually?

Thank you for your help!

PawełP

Hello @Zoltan94

Welcome to our community and thank you for your post.

F-Secure F-Secure Anti-Virus product has been discontinued after November 30, 2023. This means that from December 1, 2023 existing installations of these products no longer get any product version updates. Also, we no longer provide support for these products.

The existing installations continued to get virus definition updates until May 2024.

To stay protected, upgrade to F-Secure Total and get improved protection for the remainder of your subscription period at no additional cost. The subscription will cover all your devices, regardless of their platform.

With the new product, you don't need a license key. When you upgrade to the new product, you'll be guided to create an F-Secure account, which allows you to manage your subscription and product installations using the My F-Secure service.

You should see the end-of-life notification on the product's main view. To upgrade to F-Secure Total:

1. On the product's main view, select the Learn more link in the end-of-life notification.

Note: If you want to know more, select the More details... link in the notification.

The Continue your protection page opens.

1. Scroll down the page and select Create an account. The Create an account window opens.
2. Enter the required data and select Accept and create account. Once the account has been created, the My F-Secure page opens and your subscription will be updated automatically to F-Secure Total. Also, the F-Secure Total app will be installed automatically on your Windows device(s).
3. Go to the F-Secure app and activate your account on the device by selecting Log in in the top-right corner and entering the account credentials that you created in the previous step. Now the following features are available to you: People and Devices, Family Rules, Password Vault, ID Monitoring, and Privacy VPN. You will also be notified of tasks you need to complete, such as setting up browser extensions, to stay fully protected.
4. Restart your computer to finalize the upgrade.

Note: If for some reason your app does not update automatically in step 3, first uninstall your old app and install again from the My F-Secure page.

See the above steps in a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okMIzecyUpA?si=j2OyNSUe-zv_x4oI

The video has no voiceover. To turn on the subtitles for the video, click the Captions (CC) icon in the lower-right corner of the video screen. To select other language subtitles, if any, click the Settings icon, then select the preferred language.

If you need assistance in upgrading to F-Secure Total, just let me know.

Best regards.

Pawel