Protection

Real Broadband Essentials uses McAfee's latest antivirus software for most of its protection features. In independent tests, McAfee's virus scans successfully detected and removed 93.6% of malware, and 94.5% of spyware which is on par with both Norton and ESET, however slightly lower than Kaspersky's Internet Security and stand alone Antivirus Software product.

With the growing number of threats, for complete computer security, you need much more than only quality malware and spyware protection which Real already provides, and this is where Broadband Essentials out does every other reviewed security product.

Along with a lengthy list of features including identity theft protection and recovery service, anti-spam, anti-phishing, and so many more features we will discuss further in this review, you also get McAfee's Firewall product within this bundle which is one of the highest rated firewall softwares available today and an important part of a complete security bundle.

Overall, you can't beat the security Real Broadband Essentials provides.

Features

Real Broadband Essentials has the following main features and components:

1. Anti-Virus
2. Anti-Spyware
3. Anti-Spam
4. Anti-Phishing
5. Anti-Rootkit
6. Complete Email Protection
7. Firewall
8. Parental Controls
9. Identity Theft Protection
10. Identity Recovery Service
11. Quality Tune Up Utilities
12. Back Up / Restore Feature

This bundle outdoes every other reviewed software with the most complete list of security features. The reason Real Broadband can have such a list of features and keep a high quality of security for each is due to combining the top rated and reviewed software into their service.

For parental controls, the bundle comes with Net Nanny; the leader in parental control software on the net with the most straight forward options and customizability to fit your needs.

Keeping your computer running smooth and at its best performance is no problem either as the bundle comes with System Mechanics; the #1 selling PC tune-up utility currently available.

This is also the only bundle with an identity recovery service giving you an extra protection and helpful assistance in what is potentially a very serious situation.

An easy perfect score for overall 'features'.

Customer Service

Real takes customer service seriously offering phone, email, and live chat support. Our reviewers tested each method and received quick and thorough responses each time.

Ease of Use

If there is one aspect to be worked on it would be with ease of use. The service provides you with the best individual security software available and as such, an individual install process is needed for each, along with individual tweaking in each program during the initial set up. The good thing is that each software is programmed to update and scan automatically (unless turned off) so all of these run in the background transparently once installed. It would have been nice to see a centralized interface for easier control over each program, but aside from this, the individual softwares included are all very easy to use and set up and are worth the set up time for the quality of security they provide.

Cost

If you would have to buy each individual software included in this bundle, it would run you at around $240 / year. The beauty of Real's all in one security service is that it saves you loads of money; over $80 / year (33% savings).

The cost is on a monthly basis at $12.99 / month. They are also confident enough with their service to currently offer a 14 Day Free Trial giving you the opportunity to install, scan, and see for yourself why they are our top recommended complete security bundle.

Conclusion

The security you get from Real Broadband is unbeatable with their unique approach of combining the top rated security software from multiple developers and putting it together into one service. The only area that our reviewers felt could use a little work is with easy of use as each individual software needs to be installed and tweaked separately due to the lack of a centralized program however, this should be far from an issue as once installed and set up initially, these program run smoothly and transparently in the background of your computer keeping you safe.

The quality of security provided by this service assures your computer will run at its optimal performance and speed while giving you piece of mind when working and using the web.

Real Broadband is easily our top recommended security solution.

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Complete Security for PC:

- Real Broadband Essentials
- Norton 360 Version 3.0

Antivirus for PC:

- Kaspersky Antivirus 2010
- Norton Antivirus 2010
- ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4
- Panda Antivirus PRO 2010

Antivirus for MAC:

- Norton Antivirus 11 (MAC)