Antivirus Performance Comparison

These viruses can do many things, from stealing hard disk space, to gaining access to your personal information or draining your CPU. There are many anti-virus programs available to shield your devices from these issues. The key is to choose one that has a minimal impact on performance of your system. This is a key factor that all of our antivirus programs are tested against. The results are based on how long it takes each program to complete an operation. Kaspersky Security Cloud Free, for example, had a background effect of 6% while running a full scan, while ESET had an effect of 12%.

Avira, a German-based firm has a good reputation in our tests. It has consistently scored above 90% in all three categories: Protection (False positives) and Performance (False Positives) and Usability. The user interface has a wealth of features and features, including a sophisticated “firewall” as well as a variety of privacy tools. Avira subscriptions are billed monthly rather than for a fixed 1-3 year period. This makes it much easier to cancel the subscription or modify it at anytime.

A relatively new name in our tests, Essentware – which was previously known as PCKeeper utilizes the Avira engine underneath and generally scores pretty well across the board. Its performance and user interface are both user-friendly however, some issues with stability that resulted in scan jobs freezing up – have lowered the rating. The detection was excellent and a perfect run of the certification sets resulted in VB100.

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