Norton One

The multi-PC household is obsolete. Modern households include multiple PCs, Macs, and smartphones, and all of them need a security suite or other security software. With a single subscription to Norton One ($149.95/year, direct) you can protect up to five Macs, PCs, or Android devices. You also get 25GB of online backup for your PCs, as well as a dedicated support team that will handle absolutely any security-related problem.

Licensing Styles
Norton One's coverage isn't quite as universal as some of the competition. McAfee All Access ($99.95/year direct for? licenses, 4.5 stars) covers all PC, Mac, and Android devices belonging to an individual for $99.95/year or a household of up to five individuals for $149.95. Bitdefender Sphere ($99.95/year direct for? licenses, 4 stars) protects all devices in a household, defined as up to three people.

Others are less flexible. Kaspersky ONE Universal Security ($79.95/year direct for three licenses, 3.5 stars) comes in three-, five-, and ten-license packs; you can apply the licenses to any combination of devices. Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security Premium Edition ($99.95 direct for? licenses, 3 stars) specifically offers three licenses apiece for PC, Mac, and Android, plus 50GB of online backup.

If you want to protect four PCs with Trend Micro or eleven devices with Kaspersky, you'll have to buy another license. Norton One lets you add licenses incrementally, with the price pro-rated based on the time left in your subscription. Adding a sixth device immediately will cost you one-fifth of the product's base price; adding another device halfway into your year's subscription will cost half that.

Fully Automatic
Norton One makes installing protection as easy as possible. Its online portal shows how many installations you've made, and how many more devices you can protect. When you click the button to add a device, it checks whether you've logged in from that device. If so, it proceeds to install the appropriate protection. On a PC it installs the Norton One client and Norton 360 Version 6.0 ($79.99 direct for three licenses, 4.5 stars) automatically, with no need to enter a license key or register the product.

If you're protecting a device other than the one from which you've logged in, you select which type (PC, Mac, or Android) and supply an email address associated with that device. Norton One generates an email message with a link that invokes the same automated security installation. Simple!

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