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Do Antiviruses Still Slow You Down? (2020) (LTT)
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<blockquote data-quote="videogamer1500" data-source="post: 882691" data-attributes="member: 79127"><p><a href="https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/performance-test-april-2020/" target="_blank">Performance Test April 2020 | AV-Comparatives</a> This is only half true. Mcafee is one of the best while Norton is still one of the worse. I am surprised Kaspersky did the best out of all of them along with K7 antivirus, Windows Defender, and Mcafee. I have edited my post. Ty for the clarification. They are 3 of the worse reputable antiviruses however. Linus was purposely setting them up for failure. He did a test on the first run instead of sequential runs and left some of the settings on default. Even Linus himself said that the difference is 1-3% at worse, but made it seem like such a huge number without context. Of course when the antivirus has to scan every file you transfer it will halt the transfer process while it scans it. Does he want the antivirus to not do its job? He refused to mention he could edit files to turn of auto scanning which if he did the tests then it would show little to no difference. If he change the software to exclude safe files or locations it would also improve the results as well. He forgets that most antiviruses have a game mode in them if he properly enabled it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="videogamer1500, post: 882691, member: 79127"] [URL='https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/performance-test-april-2020/']Performance Test April 2020 | AV-Comparatives[/URL] This is only half true. Mcafee is one of the best while Norton is still one of the worse. I am surprised Kaspersky did the best out of all of them along with K7 antivirus, Windows Defender, and Mcafee. I have edited my post. Ty for the clarification. They are 3 of the worse reputable antiviruses however. Linus was purposely setting them up for failure. He did a test on the first run instead of sequential runs and left some of the settings on default. Even Linus himself said that the difference is 1-3% at worse, but made it seem like such a huge number without context. Of course when the antivirus has to scan every file you transfer it will halt the transfer process while it scans it. Does he want the antivirus to not do its job? He refused to mention he could edit files to turn of auto scanning which if he did the tests then it would show little to no difference. If he change the software to exclude safe files or locations it would also improve the results as well. He forgets that most antiviruses have a game mode in them if he properly enabled it. [/QUOTE]
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