McAfee Total Protection Ultimate includes similar coverage for $160 per year, less than half of what Norton costs. Norton isn't the only antivirus maker with an identity-theft-protection service. Read our full Kaspersky Total Security review. If you've got five or fewer devices to protect, you can get both Kaspersky Total Security and Kaspersky's unlimited VPN for $105 annually, less than the cost of Bitdefender Premium Security. The VPN service comes with only 300MB of service per day, but its unlimited VPN service costs just $30 per year, a fraction of what many stand-alone VPNs cost. However, while Kaspersky offers backup software, like Norton, it doesn't provide online storage for those backups, but instead sends you to your own Dropbox account. It also offers file encryption and unique protection against 'stalkerware' used by jealous partners. Like Bitdefender, Kaspersky offers anti-theft features for laptops, ransomware rollbacks and a secure browser mode for online banking, but Kaspersky's browser works on Macs as well as on Windows. Its password manager works across all four major platforms, and its parental controls (also fully cross-platform) are second only to Norton's.

Kaspersky has the best record on beating malware in third-party lab tests, hands-down. If you can live without an unlimited VPN, then your best bet might be Kaspersky Total Security, which covers 5 devices for $100 per year or 10 devices for $150 per year. Read our full Norton 360 with LifeLock Ultimate Plus review. If you really need and can afford all those extras, then Norton 360 with LifeLock Ultimate Plus is a no-brainer. Yet buying the equivalents of all of Norton's features and services from other companies would cost at least $550 a year. Norton 360 with LifeLock Ultimate Plus costs $350 annually after the first year, far more than any other premium antivirus suite.

Neither does the cloud-backup service, and if you have more than one PC, you might fill up its 500GB of backup storage after a year or two. So what's the catch? The parental controls, which are otherwise excellent, don't work on Macs. Norton 360 with LifeLock Ultimate Plus also has excellent protections against malware, its own firewall, dedicated webcam protection and can be installed on an unlimited number of devices. Parental controls, cloud backup, top-notch identity-theft protection? All there.

Norton 360 with LifeLock Ultimate Plus throws in just about every security feature you'd need, including many that we normally review as stand-alone services. Parental controls, cloud storage don't work on Macs

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