Antivirus Performance Comparison

Viruses are capable of a wide range of things, ranging from stealing hard disk space to access to your personal data or draining your CPU. There are a variety of anti-virus software available to help protect your devices and http://www.avastantivirusreview.com/how-does-anti-malware-software-detect-viruses/ prevent these kinds of issues. It is important to select an anti-virus that has minimal impact on your system’s performance. This is a crucial aspect that all of our antivirus products are tested against. The results below are dependent on the amount of time it takes for each program to perform an operation. For example, Kaspersky Security Cloud Free had a background impact of just 6percent while running the full scan, while ESET had a slightly higher impact of 12%.

Avira is a German company is a reputable brand in our tests. It has consistently scored above 90 percent in all three categories: Protection (False positives), Performance (False Positives) and Usability. The UI has a variety of functionality that includes a smart “firewall” as well as a variety of privacy tools. Avira’s subscriptions are priced on a monthly basis, rather than a set 1-3 year period, making it more convenient to cancel or alter the subscription at any time, without having to worry about second-year renewal price shocks.

A relatively new name that we have tested, Essentware – which was previously known as PCKeeper utilizes the Avira engine in its core and generally scores quite well across the spectrum. Its performance and UI are both user-friendly, but there are some stability issues that resulted in scanning jobs freezing that have led to a lower rating. However, detection was good and a flawless run through the certification sets earned it a VB100 award.