Computers, phones and tablets can stress people out. Failed batteries, slow operations, and time-consuming maintenance make people think they need to replace their devices, but they always find the same problems waiting for them.
It’s expensive to keep buying new devices, so F-Secure is coming to the aid of these frustrated consumers with their new F-Secure Booster. It’s a freemium app that can help people “tune-up” old and new devices to perform faster and run longer, making it a great way for value-minded shoppers to get more for their money.
F-Secure Booster fixes damage and removes the garbage that accumulates in computers and mobile devices during their day-to-day use. Many of these issues are too small to be noticeable on their own, but they build up over time and cause computers to become slow and unstable, forcing many people to consider upgrading to newer devices.
“Even though computers and phones are often called smart devices, they do fairly little maintenance on their own, which reduces their effective lifespan significantly”, says F-Secure’s Antero Norkio, Director, Device Security. “Our devices are actually built to be better than ever, and offer more than enough power and features to work for a number of years. But when people notice they don’t work so well after a while, they think it’s time for an upgrade. In reality, they just need a little tune-up to get them purring like new.”
Gartner projects that manufacturers will ship 2.5 billion computers, mobile phones, tablets, and similar devices in 2015 – that’s a 2.8 percent increase from the year before*. They also predict that the prices of PCs will increase as manufacturers move to protect their profit margins, making upgrades more expensive than they have been in the past.
F-Secure Booster helps people avoid these costly upgrades by finding and fixing wear and tear damage in devices. It takes care of difficult and time-consuming maintenance, such as cleaning unused files that programs create for temporary use, updating software and drivers, and tuning processes that drain the battery life from phones and laptops. The software also manages the potentially unwanted “bloatware” programs that come preinstalled on many newer mobile phones and other devices. These small inefficiencies waste things like memory and disk space, so getting rid of this waste gives users more storage space, longer lasting batteries, and an overall better performing machine.
According to Samu Konttinen, F-Secure’s Executive Vice President, Consumer Security, using F-Secure Booster improves security by minimizing risks caused by not maintaining devices. “An overwhelming majority of cyber attacks try to exploit vulnerabilities in old software because attackers know that keeping everything updated is too time consuming for most people. F-Secure Booster takes care of these things so that people don’t have to worry, and works with our other security solutions to make getting the very best protection simple”.
F-Secure Booster is currently available for Android devices and Windows PCs. F-Secure offers both free and premium versions of Booster, with the premium version offering the more advanced features, such as automatic software updating and other capabilities that keep devices running quickly and efficiently. The Windows PC version is available from F-Secure’s website, and the Android offering is available through Google Play.
