Products covered on this site

One product is covered here, and the reason is commercial rather than editorial. This page sets out exactly what AgileBase states about it, what it declines to state, and where the rest is documented.

Why the coverage here is narrow

AgileBase covers one product: TotalAV. That is not a shortlist arrived at by testing. It is the product whose advertiser pays for this site, and a site that covered five products while being paid by one of them would be making an implicit claim about independence that it could not support.

The narrow scope has a consequence worth stating directly. Nothing here tells you that TotalAV is the right choice, or a better choice than any alternative, because AgileBase has not compared it against alternatives and is not positioned to. What the site can do is explain the category well enough that you can evaluate any product in it, including this one, and then point you at the vendor's own material for the specifics.

What is stated about TotalAV on this site

The following is the complete set of product-level statements AgileBase makes.

• TotalAV is a consumer antivirus and device security product, sold to individuals by subscription and signed up for on the vendor's own website.
• It is offered for personal devices across desktop, mobile and tablet platforms. Which operating systems and versions are supported, and what the product does on each, is set out in the vendor's system requirements and feature documentation.
• Purchases are made from the vendor, under the vendor's terms, at the vendor's prices, and any support, refund or cancellation request goes to the vendor rather than to AgileBase.
• TotalAV is the advertiser that funds this site, through an advertising network that pays a commission on completed subscriptions.

That is deliberately short. Anything beyond it would either be reproduced from the vendor's marketing or invented, and neither belongs on a reference.

What this site does not state

Verifying the rest yourself

Everything this page declines to state is answerable from the vendor's own site in about a quarter of an hour. The sequence below is the same one the eight comparison questions imply, applied to a single product.

1. System requirements. Confirm each operating system in your household appears, at a version you are running. Note anything listed as limited.
2. Feature list, per platform. Read the feature list for the platform you care about most rather than the general one. Mobile and desktop builds differ for reasons the platforms impose.
3. Subscription terms. Find the device count, the counting rule, the renewal price and the renewal date rule. These are contractual statements, not marketing ones.
4. Cancellation and refunds. Locate the cancellation route and the refund window before subscribing, and note how a request is made.
5. Privacy policy. Read what the product sends to the vendor, particularly around cloud lookups, and where that data is processed.
6. Support. Check the contact channels and hours, and whether they suit Australian time zones.

Save what you find. Terms change, and a copy of what was published on the day you subscribed is the useful record if a question arises later.

The commercial arrangement, plainly

AgileBase is published by MSMM-ZLK s.r.o., which participates in an affiliate programme administered by an advertising network. When a reader follows a link from this site to the TotalAV website and completes a subscription, the network attributes that subscription to AgileBase and pays a commission. The commission is paid by the network out of the vendor's marketing budget. It is not added to what the reader pays, and the reader's price is whatever the vendor charges at checkout.

The arrangement decides which product is covered here. It does not decide what the glossary says, what the detection page describes, or what the consumer rights page points readers towards. Those pages would be the same if the advertiser were different, and they contain no affiliate link at all. The affiliate disclosure sets out the full terms of this.

Visit the TotalAV website

Paid link, on the terms described directly above: a commission reaches AgileBase if a subscription follows, and the vendor sets the price you pay.

If you decide against it

That is a legitimate outcome of reading this site, and the pages are written so that it remains a useful visit. Three things are worth knowing regardless of what you buy.

• Your operating system already includes protection, and it is on by default on Windows. The baseline section links the vendors' documentation for what that covers.
• The measures with the broadest effect — prompt updates, multi-factor authentication, backups you have tested — cost nothing and are set out in the Australian Cyber Security Centre's guidance for individuals and families.
• If your concern is a scam rather than malicious software, the reporting routes and consumer protections are on the scams and your rights page, and they apply whether or not you have security software installed.

Questions readers ask about this arrangement

Does the commission mean the coverage is favourable?

It means the coverage exists. What it cannot do is produce claims this site is unwilling to make, which is why the list above is short and the list of exclusions is longer. A page that declines to state a price, a detection rate or a tier comparison is less persuasive than one that states all three; publishing the shorter version is the practical test of whether the arrangement is steering the writing.

Would a different advertiser change the rest of the site?

The product name would change on this page and the paid links would point elsewhere. The glossary, the detection page and the consumer rights page would be unchanged, because none of them is about a product. That is the reason those pages carry no paid links: their usefulness does not depend on anyone buying anything.

Is there any payment for a favourable definition?

No payment of any kind is accepted to add, remove or alter an entry in the glossary, to soften a limitation, or to place a product mention inside explanatory text. There is no display advertising on this site and no sponsored content. The single commercial arrangement is the one described above, and the disclosure page states its terms in full.

Corrections

If a statement on this page has become inaccurate — a platform no longer supported, a description that no longer matches the vendor's own documentation — write to info@agilebase.online with the page address and what you believe is wrong. Corrections are made to the page and the review date in the footer is updated. The same applies to anything else on the site; the about page explains how coverage decisions are made.