About this site and the company behind it

Last reviewed 21 September 2026

Lumos Network is an informational site about consumer antivirus software, written for readers in Australia and published as a dated annual edition. This page sets out who publishes it, how it decides what to cover, and how it is funded — in that order, because the third answer affects the second.

The publisher

MSMM-SOU s.r.o. is a company registered in the Czech Republic and is responsible for everything published here. The site is produced by the company's editorial team; no individual bylines appear on it, and no author personas are invented to give pages an air of expertise they have not earned. Where a page needs authority behind a statement, it links to the organisation that holds that authority rather than attributing the statement to a name.

There are no staff photographs on this site, no biographies, no job titles and no claims about how many people work on it. Those elements are common in this genre and are frequently fabricated; leaving them out is more honest than inventing them.

What the site covers

The subject is consumer antivirus software as it is sold to households and sole traders in Australia, together with the protection already built into the operating systems those readers use. Coverage extends to the mechanics of detection, the differences between platforms, the decision of whether to buy at all, and the Australian consumer rights and reporting routes that apply when something goes wrong.

The site does not cover enterprise security products, managed detection services, or network hardware. It does not publish detection scores, benchmark figures, prices, star ratings or awards. It publishes no testimonials and no reader reviews, because none could be verified.

How coverage is decided — stated plainly

This is the part most sites in this category leave vague, so it is worth being exact.

Lumos Network earns money through one affiliate arrangement, with the vendor of Surfshark Antivirus. That product is the only one linked commercially, and it is the only product covered in detail. Maintaining accurate, current coverage of a product takes time, and a publisher of this size directs that time towards the product it has a relationship with. The result is a narrow roundup, and the narrowness is a consequence of the funding.

What the arrangement does not do is dictate what any page says. No vendor has written, reviewed, edited or approved a sentence on this site. There is no agreement requiring favourable description, and no commission rate that would change a paragraph. Where this site does not know something about the product it links to, the relevant page says so rather than filling the gap with plausible detail — which is why the product table in the 2026 roundup contains as many blanks as it does.

A reader should treat this site as a way to understand the category and to ask sharper questions, and should treat the vendor's own documentation as the authority on the vendor's own product. Everything about the arrangement is set out on the affiliate disclosure page, and the sourcing rules are on the methodology page.

What this site is not

• It is not the official site of any software vendor, and it is not a reseller, partner or authorised source for any product.
• It is not a news publication, and nothing here is reported journalism.
• It is not a personal blog, and no page describes a personal experience.
• It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Surfshark, any other vendor, or any Australian government body linked from these pages.
• It does not provide professional security, legal or financial advice, and it is not a substitute for advice about your specific circumstances.

What this site collects about you

Nothing. There is no form anywhere on this site, no newsletter, no account, no quiz and no chat widget. The site sets no cookies, uses no local storage, and loads no analytics, advertising tags or third-party scripts of any kind. The only personal information that ever reaches this publisher is what a reader chooses to put in an email. The privacy policy describes the position in full, and the cookie policy explains why there is no consent banner: there is nothing to consent to.

Corrections and contact

If a statement here is wrong, email info@lumosnetwork.online with the page address and the statement at issue. Corrections supported by a source are applied and the page's review date is updated. The contact page sets out what this publisher can and cannot help with.