This article outlines important changes and features, as well as fixes released in the latest versions of the F-Secure app.
Version 19.6
Released September 2024
New features
- Scam Protection
- The Cookie blocker feature automatically rejects cookie consent prompts displayed by websites when you visit them for the first time.
- Please note that this feature detects only the most common cookie consent providers and may not work for all websites. It will be improved in future versions.
- Secure Browsing has been renamed to Scam Protection (Total client) or Safe Browsing (SAFE client).
- Trusted Shopping has been renamed to Shopping Protection.
Version 19.5
Released June 2024
New features
- Device Protection
- "Viruses & Threats" has been renamed to "Device Protection" and the layout has changed, but the functionality is still the same.
- Scheduled scanning has been changed to say "Monthly" instead of "Every 4 weeks" and it now runs on the first instance of the selected day in the month. This also fixes an issue where scheduled scans were run too often.
- Secure Browsing
- Trusted Shopping and Ad blocker settings can be changed for each Windows user account. This means that you do not need administrative rights to change these settings.
- iframes with harmful source content are blocked (extension version 5.6.0 and newer).
Removed features
- Windows 8.1 is no longer supported
- As of version 19.5, the app cannot be installed on Windows 8.1, and versions 19.4 and older stop receiving upgrades on Windows 8.1.
- Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 8.1 on January 10th, 2023.
Version 19.4
Released April 2024
New features
- Viruses & Threats
- Manual scanning settings can be changed for each Windows user account. This means that you do not need administrative rights to change these settings.
- Secure Browsing
- Trusted Shopping settings are opened when you click the popup that appears when you visit an online shopping website (available on extension version 5.5.0 and newer). This gives you easy access to the Trusted Shopping settings.
- General improvements
- The app is now provided as a native 64-bit version. First-time installations on 64-bit systems are now 64-bit. Current existing installations are enabled for 64-bit support during the upgrade, and the following (Total PC 19.5) upgrade migrates the product from 32-bit to 64-bit on 64-bit systems.
- The style of the main user interface has been updated. Issues that require action are now displayed more prominently.
Removed features
- Removed the Web Traffic Scanning feature from Viruses & Threats, because it could only scan unencrypted traffic (HTTP), which is rare nowadays.
Version 19.3
Released February 2024
New features
- Secure Browsing
- You can now configure the notifications for Trusted shopping in the Secure Browsing > Trusted shopping settings. For example, you can switch off notifications for safe websites and only get warnings for shopping sites that have a questionable or bad reputation.
- Trusted shopping statistics are shown on the Secure Browsing page.
- You can switch off Ad blocker for a specific website. To switch off Ad blocker, select the Browsing Protection by F-Secure icon in the browser toolbar and then select Ad blocker is on.
- As an experimental feature, Banking protection blocks browser development tools during banking sessions. Such tools are commonly used in "support scams".
- General improvements
- The subscription page shows a comparison view of the current and full subscription, and you have the option to upgrade your subscription.
- The severity level of the login smart task has been lowered from "warning" to "info".
- Deeplink support allows the use of links to open the correct user interface view, for example in reminder messages or support websites.
- Fixed issues
- VPN: incorrect captive portal detection.
Version 19.2
Released October 2023
New features
- Viruses & Threats
- The "Real-time protection off" warning can be dismissed permanently.
- The USB scan now detects also external hard drives.
- Secure Browsing
- The Trusted Shopping feature notifies you of fake and untrustworthy shopping websites; it shows whether a website is a safe shopping site or a scam. The trustworthiness is shown when:
- you hover the mouse over a search result rating icon.
- you enter a website that is categorized as "shopping". A small pop-up message indicates the trustworthiness of the site.
- you click on the Browsing Protection by F-Secure icon on the browser toolbar.
- Installation status of the browser extension is visible for each supported browser in the Secure Browsing view.
- Family Rules
- When installing the product for a child, at the end of the installation flow, the user is asked to install the desired browser extensions.
- Password Vault
- When you add a new password entry to Password Vault, the app automatically generates a strong, 16-character-long password for you.
- Privacy VPN
- The functionality of the latest locations list has been improved, and it is easier to use.
- Added an option to disable VPN connection notifications when the app is closed.
- General improvements
- The top bar with the user information as well as profile and task icons is now visible on every view.
- The Subscription view has been updated, allowing you to see all feature statistics at a single glance.
- User interface framework was updated from .NET 4.7.2 to .NET 6.0.
- .NET 6.0 is installed automatically during the update if it's missing.
Fixed issues:
- The issue where Family Rules needed to be changed at least once after installation for the content filtering rules to take effect has now been resolved.
- The issue with Password Vault occasionally locking itself before reaching the user-set timer has been fixed.
Version 19.1
Released June 2023
New features
- Viruses & Threats
- A manual scan can now be paused and resumed.
- If a scheduled scan is missed, for example when the device is turned off at the scheduled time, it will be executed as soon as the device is turned on again. The scan is rescheduled for the earliest available time after the device is turned back on.
- A scheduled scan waits for the gaming mode to end before starting. If the gaming mode activates during a scheduled scan, the scan will be paused and resumed as soon as the gaming mode ends.
- Secure Browsing
- The Browsing Protection extensions on all supported browsers (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox) have been unified, and they work the same way.
- Password Vault
- Password Vault is now available also for child profiles.
- New Vault users are forced to use a strong master password. The same applies when existing users change their master password. The minimum length of a master password is now 12 characters.
- You can now select multiple Vault entries and delete them in one batch.
- We have improved Vault's usability. For example, if Vault is still empty, its landing page shows Add new password or Import passwords options.
- Privacy VPN
- The VPN bypass feature added. The selected applications can bypass Privacy VPN and connect to the internet directly. This is supported from 64-bit Windows 10, version 20H2 (build 19042), onwards.
- Information about virtual locations added to the Privacy VPN view.
- Statistics on protected internet traffic and blocked tracking cookies added to the Privacy VPN view.
- A notification is shown to the user, e.g. when the user closes the app with VPN turned on.
- Smart tasks
- Smart tasks added for both new and existing Password Vault users.
- Added smart tasks for enabling VPN, for captive portal detection, and for cases where the free VPN trial period has already been used.
- A smart task asking the user to log in added.
- The priority of smart tasks has been updated. Also, the smart task texts have been updated.
- General improvements
- The Account menu has been updated. It now contains information about the license inside the menu and a link to manage the account. The main view no longer has information about the subscription validity.
- The Subscription page has been updated. It now only contains a button to renew the subscription. The button to manage the account has been moved to the Account menu.
- Update delivery and signing system have been updated.
Fixed issues:
- The issue with the command line scanner not working without elevation has been fixed.
- Localization issues in the Password Vault settings and the Privacy VPN view have been fixed.
- The issue where the main UI popped up with a smart task while gaming has been resolved.
Removed features:
- Support for Windows 7. Installation and updates are blocked on Windows 7.
- Proxy configuration in Settings. Product now automatically uses Windows proxy if it is set up.
Version 19.0
Released February 2023
New features
- Integrated Password Vault (F-Secure Total)
Note: This feature is only available if included in your subscription.- You can access your passwords in the product's main user interface.
- If you have the standalone ID PROTECTION product installed, you can migrate your passwords to the integrated Password Vault.
- After migrating your passwords, the standalone ID PROTECTION product will continue to work, but you can also uninstall it.
- Note that you can only configure the password manager browser extension to work with one product at a time.
- Password Vault browser extension improvements
- If credentials for the current website are available in Password Vault, you can access copying options via the extension's main icon.
- You can now search Password Vault credentials via the browser extension.
- You can save new website credentials directly from the browser to Password Vault.
- Integrated Virtual private network (VPN)
Note: This feature is only available if included in your subscription.- You can access your VPN settings from the product's main user interface.
- Encrypts your connection and protects your IP address online.
- You can change your virtual location.
- Killswitch basic functionality: cuts off internet access if the VPN connection is disrupted.
- You can set trusted networks.
- Automatic VPN connection after device restart.
- Tracking protection.
- VPN protocol selection.
- Ad blocker
- Prevents loading content from common advertising servers, improving you browsing experience.
- You can see the statistics of blocked ads on the Secure Browsing & Banking view.
- Website rating submission via browser extension menu
- You can suggest a new rating for websites that have no rating or have an incorrect rating.
- To access this feature, pin the Browsing Protection by F-Secure extension to your browser toolbar from your browser's extension menu.
- Visual and usability related improvements
- Unified feature icons across products.
- Visual progress and complete indicators for notifications in the main user interface.
- The following views now remember their size and position: main user interface, settings, event history, scan wizard, and help.
- The feature cards in the main user interface are now organized so that commonly used feature cards are higher.
- The "Turn off all protection" option has been added to the Secure Browsing & Banking view.
Fixed issues:
- Issues with dark mode have been fixed.
- The issue where the Password Vault browser extension injected its iframe to web editor (such as WordPress) pages when editing them has been fixed.
