AV-Comparatives: Performance Test

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Last updated on 11 Dec 2011, Sun

*Users are encouraged to try out the software on their own PC’s and form an opinion based on their own observations.

(Performance Test)

Tested products:

The following products were evaluated (with default settings) in this test (November 2011):

avast! Free Antivirus 6.0

AVG Anti-Virus 2012

AVIRA Free Antivirus 2012

Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2012

eScan Anti-Virus 11

ESET NOD32 Antivirus 5

F-Secure Anti-Virus 2012

G DATA AntiVirus 2012

K7 Antivirus Plus 11.1

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012

McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2012

Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1

Panda Cloud Antivirus Free 1.5.1

PC Tools Spyware Doctor with Antivirus 2012

Qihoo 360 Antivirus 2.0

Sophos Endpoint Security 9.7

Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2012

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus Plus 2012

TrustPort Antivirus 2012

Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus 2012

Please note that the results in this report apply only to the products/versions listed above (e.g. 64-Bit versions, product version, etc.). Also, keep in mind that different vendors offer different (and differing quantities of) features in their products.

The following activities/tests were performed under Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit:

• File copying
• Archiving / Unarchiving
• Encoding / Transcoding
• Installing / Uninstalling applications
• Launching applications
• Downloading files
• PC Mark 7 Professional Testing Suite

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I converted the above report into excel so that is easier to "read".

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PC Mark Tests

In order to provide an industry-recognized performance test, we used the PC Mark 7 Professional Edition4 testing suite.

Users using PC Mark 7 should take care to minimize all external factors which could affect the testing suite and follow strictly at least the considerations/suggestions documented inside the PC Mark manual, in order to get consistent and valid/useful results.

Furthermore, the tests should be repeated several times to verify them. For more information about the various consumer scenarios tests included in PC Mark, please read the whitepaper on their website5. “Without AV” is tested on a baseline6 system which scores 2024 in the PC Mark test.

Summarized results

Users should weight the various subtests according to their needs. We applied a scoring system in order to sum up the various results.

For “file copying” we took the mean values, as well as for “launching applications” (on subsequent runs). Like in previous performance reports, “very fast” gets 15 points, “fast” gets 10 points, “mediocre” gets 5 points and “slow” gets zero points. This leads to the following results:

Overall for Performance Test
Top Anti-Virus with the lowest impact on overall result are Eset & K7.


Reference:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/

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