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| Company/Service, in order of rating | Rating | Credit alerts and online credit reports | Public record reports | Fraud alert | Online dashboard | Chat room scans | Identity theft insurance | Security software | Comments |
| Identity Guard "Total Protection" $17/month or $170/year | Good | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes1 | Full service handles both monitoring and freezes, but interface invites signing up for things you already have. |
| Debix Identity Protection Network $99/year2 | Fair | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Service offers real-time identity verification via phone, though not all creditors take advantage of this. |
| Suze Orman's Identity Theft Kit $40 kit | Fair | No | No | Yes3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes4 | Software-based kit uses TrustedId for alerts; claims to protect against theft of health insurance records, too. |
| TrustedID "Identity Freeze" $13/month or $110/year | Fair | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | This is the only service to manage both credit freezes and fraud alerts. Performed as advertised in our tests. |
| LifeLock $10/month or $110/year | Poor | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | The most limited of the services tested lacks online dashboard; fraud alert wasn't set until we followed up. |
| TrueCredit by TransUnion "3 in 1 Monitoring" $15/month | Poor | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Service is marred by obnoxious marketing tactics; in our test it failed to issue alerts in two instances. |
| 1 Free download of ZoneAlarm Security Suite included. 2 Also sold by LoudSiren for $9 a month.3 Via partnership with TrustedID.4 Installs antivirus and antispyware software. | |||||||||