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F-Secure’s Sense antivirus<br />
hardware protects every<br />
device in your home,<br />
from <strong>PC</strong>s to TVs<br />
BY JARED NEWMAN<br />
F-SECURE IS TAKING an unconventional<br />
approach to virus protection with a<br />
hardware box that covers every<br />
device in your house.<br />
For $199, the F-Secure Sense<br />
(sense.f-secure.com) connects to<br />
any wireless router and creates its<br />
own secure network. It then analyzes<br />
the traffic coming to or from any device<br />
on that network, finding and blocking potential threats.<br />
Sense’s main advantage over standard antivirus software<br />
is the protection it offers for smart TVs, connected appliances,<br />
or other smart home products. The makers of these products<br />
have a long history of neglecting security risks (go.pcworld.com/<br />
iotsecurityrisk), so F-Secure is promising to recognize and stop<br />
common threats. The company also says it can block unwanted<br />
tracking and data collection. Here’s how tracking protection<br />
works, according to F-Secure: “Sense will recognize suspicious<br />
traffic (for example, if your TV is uploading huge amounts of data<br />
to an unknown site) and notify the user th[r]ough the app, and/or<br />
automatically block the traffic (depending on the nature of the<br />
traffic and user settings).”<br />
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