http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php?chart=chart4&year=2015&month=10&sort=1
PDF = For detailed tests / results = http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/avc_per_201510_en.pdf
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Lower is better I take it?
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For a professional user, I recommend a paid anti virus, usually the Avast.
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I've read Avast lets you sign, that they're allowed to drive DDoS attacks on your PC in the free version.
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I tried a cursory search on this and found nothing.Spartan@HIDevolution likes this. -
@Seraiel This has nothing to do with what you wrote above - there is no signing up for Avast driving DDoS attacks on your PC.
The link you provided is about Avast using its own certificates to be able to scan encrypted traffic which is indeed a security concern of sorts but not really a huge deal. What does that have to do with DDoS? Nothing.
I'll grant you that I don't like the certificate thing Avast does though.katalin_2003 and Spartan@HIDevolution like this. -
I posted that more as a quick proof that Avast is not 100% clean in what they do, because I'm busy right now. I remember having read that with DDoS attacks. There was no proof, but also noone in that forum said anything countering it, and as it were security forums, I trust that information still more than I don't trust it. You don't have to believe it if you don't want to, I'll stay away from any free anti-viruses though, because they all do something to get their money back which I find unacceptable.
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And I didn't write that there's a signing up. As I understood it, Avast lets you sign things when installing their software that would allow such things. If this is true or if they actually do that, no idea, but after Microsoft and Windows 10, I wouldn't wonder too much about sth. like that.hmscott likes this. -
i am currently on avast, should i switch to something else?
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I tested ESET and then bought it, because it did an excellent job at keeping my system Malware free. Then I saw this performance chart and investigated a little further. In some tests, it's reported that ESET can cause a file to open for up to 6s. I monitored my system closely, and it's true, sometimes opening a file just comes with a huge lag and copying files can take very long aswell. As I didn't have this in safe-mode, I really suspect that it's ESET causing this, and think about using my right to get my money back that afaik exists the first 30d. I'm thinking about switching to Kaspersky. Does anyone actually have experience, what's up with those 3 installs before the key gets blacklisted? I mean, they cannot blacklist a key of someone who legally bought that program for installing a different OS, so at it imo. should at least be possible to unlock the key again via contacting the support, not?
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Also, make sure to run a full system scan, that will whitelist the files so they aren't scanned again if you their hashes didn't change. Helps with performance.
Kaspersky is very light, if only it didn't limit me to how I use my PC, I would get it. The funny thing is, I tried removing the license from Kaspersky before formatting everytime to show that I have de-activated it on the machine but that didn't help.Seraiel likes this. -
Thx for that tip @Matrix Leader .
Whitelisting the files could actually help, because I believe, that I noticed those lags while accessing some files on my RAM Disk. I therefore couldn't believe, that access was so slow, but they weren't whitelisted like my harddrives, so this could actually have been the cause to this problem.
Thx for the link to the ESET-forum. I will need to create some additional threads there, because I i. e. need to create the rescue-disk manually for my USB-multi-bootstick. Apart from that, trying to create it via their tool also failed ^^ .Spartan@HIDevolution likes this. -
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AV-Comparatives: Performance-Test October 2015
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Nov 11, 2015.