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    AV performance test from AV-Comparatives

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by Baserk, Nov 23, 2008.

  1. Baserk

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    Like the title says, AV-Comparatives have done a performance test on most major AV programs (note; paid editions).
    They have tested with both standard AV-settings and high ones.
    They've tested copying files, archiving/unarchiving Office 2003 files, encoding and transcoding of music and video files and the system booting and shutdown impact on a Core2Duo 8400 with 2GB memory and XPSP3.
    Antivirus detection rates have not been done in this test, it's only a performance test.
    The top 5 are;
    1 Eset NOD32 3.0
    2 Symantec NortonAV 2009
    3 VBA 32 3.12.8.2
    4 Avast Professional Edition 4.8
    5 McAfee VirusScan Plus 12.1

    Check the testing methodology and results yourself here/PDF link.
    Avira and Avast have gotten an Advanced + certification and AVG an Advanced one (for what it's worth ;)).
    Cheers.