About ProtectYour.com

Guides are written and maintained by the editors of ProtectYour.com. The site is part of Silicon Valley Ventures (SVV), a group of independent reference sites that each cover one subject in depth.

• Free steps come first. A credit freeze, two-factor sign-in, a password manager and automatic updates stop most of what goes wrong. Every guide puts the free fix ahead of any product.
• No scare tactics. No countdown timers, no flashing warnings, no “your device is at risk” pop-ups. If something is a real risk we say how likely it is and what it takes to fix.
• Competitors are named fairly. We earn from some products and not from others. Where a product we do not earn from is the better choice, the guide says so.
• We say what we know and how. Our guides draw on vendors’ published documentation, independent security audits, independent antivirus lab results and government guidance from the FTC, FBI, CISA and IRS. We do not run our own lab tests and we never imply that we have.

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