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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1106126" data-attributes="member: 114717">The only way to know for sure what exactly AV-Comparatives is talking about is to download the Procyon test suite that it uses and test it yourself.AV-Comparatives does test for shutdown and boot times, but never publishes them.They use a &quot;Good, Better, Best&quot; qualitative, relative ranking system that makes absolutely no sense. People need a perception of time to judge. AV-Comparatives saying &quot;F-Secure was in the Better category for file copy and program launch, making slower than most of the others.&quot; is not helpful. In fact, it deserves a STFW? Unless a test lab publishes a matrix that lists times in units of time that people can understand, the entire point of the whole test is lost. The results mean virtually nothing.Now &quot;F-Secure was on average 300 ms slower than other tested software&quot; - that is something people get a concept of what the result means, but they have no measure of 300 ms because they cannot perceive a 300 ms delay. Hypothetical example.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1106126, member: 114717"] The only way to know for sure what exactly AV-Comparatives is talking about is to download the Procyon test suite that it uses and test it yourself. AV-Comparatives does test for shutdown and boot times, but never publishes them. They use a "Good, Better, Best" qualitative, relative ranking system that makes absolutely no sense. People need a perception of time to judge. AV-Comparatives saying "F-Secure was in the Better category for file copy and program launch, making slower than most of the others." is not helpful. In fact, it deserves a STFW? Unless a test lab publishes a matrix that lists times in units of time that people can understand, the entire point of the whole test is lost. The results mean virtually nothing. Now "F-Secure was on average 300 ms slower than other tested software" - that is something people get a concept of what the result means, but they have no measure of 300 ms because they cannot perceive a 300 ms delay. Hypothetical example. [/QUOTE]

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