- Jan 10, 2017
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Performance Test October 2019
- Thread starter amico81
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- Jan 10, 2017
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Panda more and more in the last row? 
Norton too?
I cannot feel any brakes with these 2 av's in the last years...
Norton too? I cannot feel any brakes with these 2 av's in the last years...
- Oct 11, 2014
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ESET and McAfee better Performance
Bitdefender Better Protection but Heavy
Kaspersky is middle Performance and protection
Bitdefender Better Protection but Heavy
Kaspersky is middle Performance and protection
Seems wrong in some cases ,mcafee,avira,bitdefender ,low performance? Have never seen that.
- Nov 26, 2017
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That's why I use Eset Nod32 Antivirus now. It is Light.
- Jul 6, 2017
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What catches my attention is the third place for Kaspersky, very good result.
McAfee if I know that it is light because my brother uses it and is very light.
McAfee if I know that it is light because my brother uses it and is very light.
Look at the PCMark score, which is more important for the general overall performance of your PC, especially for heavy application use and gaming. F-Secure outperformed all of them with the least impact on the overall on raw PC performance.
- Dec 23, 2014
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The results of this test, highly depend on the weights of tested categories:
file copying, archiving/unarchiving, installing/uninstalling applications, launching applications, downloading files. Furthermore, the testing procedure does not include two important factors : gaming and starting/shutting down the system.
The results of this test will be welcome for many MalwareTips members who frequently:
By looking at the results of Trend Micro it is evident that the average user will feel it as a slow AV and Windows Defender as much faster (comparable to Avast, AVG, and Eset). Why? Trend Micro has the worst performance for launching applications, which is the most common user activity and Microsoft has the stellar performance in common activities like launching applications, web browsing, downloading files or starting/shutting down the system.
This test strongly suggests that independently of the chosen methodology, there are some generally fast AVs like: Kaspersky, Avira, and McAfee.
I use WD for a few years and in my opinion, it has an average performance (fast in common activities and below average when managing the system).
file copying, archiving/unarchiving, installing/uninstalling applications, launching applications, downloading files. Furthermore, the testing procedure does not include two important factors : gaming and starting/shutting down the system.
The results of this test will be welcome for many MalwareTips members who frequently:
- install/uninstall applications,
- create archives or backups,
- copy many files.
By looking at the results of Trend Micro it is evident that the average user will feel it as a slow AV and Windows Defender as much faster (comparable to Avast, AVG, and Eset). Why? Trend Micro has the worst performance for launching applications, which is the most common user activity and Microsoft has the stellar performance in common activities like launching applications, web browsing, downloading files or starting/shutting down the system.
This test strongly suggests that independently of the chosen methodology, there are some generally fast AVs like: Kaspersky, Avira, and McAfee.
I use WD for a few years and in my opinion, it has an average performance (fast in common activities and below average when managing the system).
Microsoft feels like an absolute pig each time I reset a machine. I cannot wait to group policy that nonsense off my systems.
- Dec 23, 2014
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The restart depends mostly on the installed software and system health. In many performance tests, WD has very good restart times.
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As usual the results should only be used as a very rough indication of performance. In my usage, I've found Tencent and Panda to be extremely light, on any system I install them on, even really old systems with low end CPUs. Unlike some antiviruses that are light the majority of the time, but sometimes you see spikes in CPU, which cause noticeable slowdowns, I find Tencent and Panda to always be extremely light. For me at least, they are much lighter than Kaspersky, Avast and Avira, which all scored better.
While it's not as light as Tencent or Panda, I've found Symantec to also be lighter than Kaspersky, Avast and Avira.
As always, the only true way to test performance, is to install a product on your own system and see how it performs. It's interesting that some antiviruses I've tested sometimes can be very light for days, and then for no apparent reason, have brief periods of high CPU use, after which they are light again.
While it's not as light as Tencent or Panda, I've found Symantec to also be lighter than Kaspersky, Avast and Avira.
As always, the only true way to test performance, is to install a product on your own system and see how it performs. It's interesting that some antiviruses I've tested sometimes can be very light for days, and then for no apparent reason, have brief periods of high CPU use, after which they are light again.
- Jan 27, 2019
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I'm with ForgottenSeer 58943. I've tried most AVs and have finally settled on F-Secure. Easy to set up and runs very well on my 2 machines.
- Jul 2, 2014
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I would like to see Performance test being done on a low end or mid end system. That's where these statistics matter the most.
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- Dec 30, 2012
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you didn't read at the bottom of the page, in super small characters:BD lighter than Norton....yeah right!!
"this test was sponsored by all the major vendors"
- Jul 28, 2016
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Bitdefender lighter than microsoft.......no way!!! Bitdefender 2020 is buggy ( what else is new ) and a known offender to trash systems, putting them to a crawl.....ilde state between 400-500 mb ram ussage.they are right about eset through very light on the system , slightly lighter than kaspersky.
Of does feel light on my system , but scanning speed is riddicoulisly slow, as is the transfer rate of copying files and folders...that's why it is the first thing that gets nuked from my system!! Btw Nice beard you have ForgottenSeer 58943! I never would have guessed you looked like that in real life!
Of does feel light on my system , but scanning speed is riddicoulisly slow, as is the transfer rate of copying files and folders...that's why it is the first thing that gets nuked from my system!! Btw Nice beard you have ForgottenSeer 58943! I never would have guessed you looked like that in real life!
Kaspersky less effective protection wise than bitdefender? You must be Joking right??
- May 26, 2014
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BD lighter than Norton....yeah right!!
To be fair Bitdefender 2020 had less system impact in my machine than Norton, but of course that was only my specific hardware and software combo.
- Dec 23, 2014
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No complaints, please.
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- Jul 2, 2014
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Way lighter than Kaspersky, I can't run Kaspersky without system hang once in a while on one of my 1GB RAM laptop. The specifications matters a lot for performance tests.
- Apr 28, 2015
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