Spectrum Internet Security Features

• What Is Spectrum Security Suite?
• What Is Included With Spectrum Security Suite?
• Remove Viruses With Spectrum’s Antivirus Protection
• Keep Bots Away With Spectrum’s AntiBot Scanner
• Guard Your Spectrum Internet Connection With Firewall Protection
• Get Browsing Protection With Spectrum Security Suite
• Spectrum’s Online Parental Controls Keep Kids Safe
• Spectrum Security Suite FAQ

What Is Spectrum Security Suite?

Browsing the Internet without security software is like rock climbing without a harness. You’ll hope you’ve chosen your footholds correctly, but serious consequences could hit you if you happen to be wrong! If you have Spectrum Internet, you don’t have to blindly hope that you’re being as safe as possible. You already have access to protective software through Spectrum’s Security Suite so you can scale the Internet without worries!

Spectrum Security Suite is a computer security software which is included for Spectrum Internet customers. Since this perk is powered by real-time cloud-based technology, you can expect some of the fastest protection against viruses, spyware, and other types of malware.

Your subscription to Spectrum Internet includes coverage for up to ten computers so you can make sure that everyone in your household is covered!

What Is Included With Spectrum Security Suite?

This software includes a plethora of features to keep you and your loved ones safe online. These features include the following:

• Antivirus Protection
• AntiBot Scanner
• Firewall
• Browsing Protection
• Online Parental Controls

Remove Viruses With Spectrum’s Antivirus Protection

To make sure that your computer is safe from malware that sneaks in and replicates itself, your Spectrum Security Suite comes equipped with automatic virus removal.

This program automatically eliminates viruses and other types of malware from your device. Thankfully, your protection won’t interrupt your daily activities on your device because it runs invisibly in the background while minimally affecting system resources.

To keep your computer as protected as possible, this antivirus software updates itself occasionally to keep up with new digital threats to your system.

Once it does update, you will be provided with a notification of the update so that you can be assured of your computer’s complete protection.

Keep Bots Away With Spectrum’s AntiBot Scanner

Another type of malware possibility is invasion by a bot. If your computer is infected with a bot, it means that your computer may be being controlled remotely without your permission.

Furthermore, bots can connect your computer to a botnet, which is a network of devices work together (willingly or not) to process large amounts of data.

Bots might appear on your computer if you’ve opened an infected email attachment, clicked on a suspicious link, visited a malware-ridden page or a variety of other normally innocuous activities.

However, thanks to Spectrum Security Suite’s AntiBot Scanner, your computer can scan and remove these nasty little bits of malware. For more information about what could be lurking around on the Internet waiting to take advantage of your data and device, check out a guide to malware types.

Guard Your Spectrum Internet Connection With Firewall Protection

A firewall is a type of software that can be used to guard your private data by allowing only qualified (or trusted) Internet connections to have access to your computer.

By setting up your Internet security in this way, Spectrum Security Suite’s firewall protection helps secure your data while preventing hackers from violating your privacy.

If this ever hinders your capabilities online, Spectrum Security Suite offers a user-friendly interface through which to disable and enable your firewall.

You also have the choice of blocking all traffic to and from your computer in the event that your computer is infected. Blocking all traffic from an infected computer may minimize the damage that malware can do to other devices on the same network.

Get Browsing Protection With Spectrum Security Suite

Even if you have anti-malware software, it’s still better to try avoiding the sources of viruses, bots, adware, trojans and more while you’re online.

That’s where Spectrum Security Suite’s browsing protection (powered by F-Secure) comes in.

With this feature enabled, your Security Suite will evaluate the safety of the websites you visit while restricting access to potentially harmful sites.

You can also learn more about Internet safety while using this tool because search engine results will be paired with safety ratings so you can know before you click. With this feature, you’re even protected from online threats that pose as legitimate websites in order to invade your computer.

Spectrum’s Online Parental Controls Keep Kids Safe

Spectrum is there for you and your family—even if you can’t be there to watch what’s happening on your child’s screen when he or she uses the Internet.

With the Spectrum Security Suite parental controls on a Windows device with established profiles for each use in the home, you can do any of the following:

• Set a daily time limit for Internet use with different weekend time allowances, if desired.
• Set specified off hours when the Internet should not be used, such as at night or after bedtime.
• Filter or block sites that contain mature content for a variety of topics.

If you have a Mac computer to access your Spectrum Internet, content blocking and filtering are the sole parental control available.

No matter which device type you have, though, the parental control settings are available to you through your selected administrator profile for the account.