Advanced Plus Security Thales Hardened system for 2021

[Kongo]

This is my current setup for 2021

Reminder how antiviruses perform on my system. (only performance, not protection)
Sophos = 1/5
Very heavy on my system. I uninstalled and won't use it in the near future.
Heimdal = 5/5
Very fast and responsive program however the protection rate is very bad and for this price there are better alternatives.
Trend Micro = 5/5
It is fast and offers better protection than Heaimdal.
McAfee = 5/5
Fast and the protection rate is also good.
AVG = 4/5
I have mixed feeling about it.
Norton = 5/5
It is crazy fast and responsive. Protection rate is on the top. Must have product. Probably the fastest and most improved complete suit I 've tried. Scanning consume 30-35% CPU which is very good and this way the system remains very usable..

Sophos 1/5?
I mean yea it has many processes, but is it actually slowing down your system that much? I have it installed for some days now and I can barely see any CPU usage.



When scanning:



But as I can see you are totally fine with Norton.

 

[Thales]

Sophos 1/5?
I mean yea it has many processes, but is it actually slowing down your system that much? I have it installed for some days now and I can barely see any CPU usage.

Yes, and I was surprised too. It slowed down my system as hell. I couldn't even browsing or use my PC as usual.
I tried to make a quick scan to see how it performs but it used all of my CPU. I liked HMPA that's why I gave it a chance (I know different product but same brand).
Maybe it is my system that Sophos didn't like who knows.

 

[blackice]

Yes, and I was surprised too. It slowed down my system as hell. I couldn't even browsing or use my PC as usual.
I tried to make a quick scan to see how it performs but it used all of my CPU. I liked HMPA that's why I gave it a chance (I know different product but same brand).
Maybe it is my system that Sophos didn't like who knows.

What do you use to measure system performance? Do you just browse and open programs, or do you use a benchmark of some sort?

 

[ForgottenSeer 89360]

@Thales
I agree with your opinion about Trend Micro, it's light, easy to use and intuitive.

Regarding McAfee, I personally would advise you to stay clear, as long as Avast, Kaspersky, Trend and Norton exist.
I tested it few nights ago and I have to say I am not impressed at all.
UI is now very fast and snappy, that's a plus. Programs launch fast, another plus.
But it missed too much malware and even missed a document with macro...Every AV now handles these, only McAfee doesn't.
I would recommend McAfee to people who work with a small set of trusted content, but people looking for protection, better look elsewhere.

 

[Thales]

What do you use to measure system performance? Do you just browse and open programs, or do you use a benchmark of some sort?

No benchmark program. I work from home and using my PC all day long. I tried a lot of AV and combos on this system, so I have the benchmark

 

[ForgottenSeer 89360]

No benchmark program. I work from home and using my PC all day long. I tried a lot of AV and combos on this system, so I have the benchmark

You ARE the benchmark
Well your experience matches with mine.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

In my experience, it is better to install SHP on a newly configured system. It takes days to wind down and cache everything, so if you install it on a system with bunch of installed software, I can imagine how unresponsive the system would be.

 

[Kongo]

In my experience, it is better to install SHP on a newly configured system. It takes days to wind down and cache everything, so if you install it on a system with bunch of installed software, I can imagine how unresponsive the system would be.

That's what I did actually. Might be the reason why its running so smoothly on my side.

 

[blackice]

In my experience, it is better to install SHP on a newly configured system. It takes days to wind down and cache everything, so if you install it on a system with bunch of installed software, I can imagine how unresponsive the system would be.

That's what I did actually. Might be the reason why its running so smoothly on my side.

I had the same experience. After waiting about 48 hours for it to cache things it ran very smooth. But, I know some people have had issues where it never settles in.

 

[Thales]

Good to know this. I read something similar in the Bitdefender section.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

I had the same experience. After waiting about 48 hours for it to cache things it ran very smooth. But, I know some people have had issues where it never settles in.

Exactly. SHP was not for me and I had to look somewhere else, but I saw it working very light on some systems, high-end systems with decent internet speed. The product always slowed down Firefox.

 

[blackice]

Exactly. SHP was not for me and I had to look somewhere else, but I saw it working very light on some systems, high-end systems with decent internet speed. The product always slowed down Firefox.

I had the same problem with Firefox and SHP.

 

[Kongo]

Exactly. SHP was not for me and I had to look somewhere else, but I saw it working very light on some systems, high-end systems with decent internet speed. The product always slowed down Firefox.

Only for the first few days in my case.

 

[Dex4Sure]

Firefox is sadly just too slow. I'd like to use it, but everytime when I compare it to Chromium based browsers its so slow, especially on mobile.

 

[Kongo]

Firefox is sadly just too slow. I'd like to use it, but everytime when I compare it to Chromium based browsers its so slow, especially on mobile.

Not doing too bad

 

[Dex4Sure]

Not doing too bad

Test again on Android Big difference. On Windows 10 FF does pretty well I agree. Still behind Chrome. And over time it still gets slower until you reinstall it while I've noticed while Chrome doesn't seem to. I just used 2 months Firefox straight cause I was fed up with Google, but nah I realized just can't do it any longer. The moment I tried Chrome again, everything just seemed to work faster and in some cases just more reliably too... Not to mention printing with Firefox... My printer just doesn't play nicely with FF while Chrome never had any issues.

 

[Kongo]

Test again on Android Big difference. On Windows 10 FF does pretty well I agree. Still behind Chrome. And over time it still gets slower until you reinstall it while I've noticed while Chrome doesn't seem to. I just used 2 months Firefox straight cause I was fed up with Google, but nah I realized just can't do it any longer. The moment I tried Chrome again, everything just seemed to work faster and in some cases just more reliably too... Not to mention printing with Firefox... My printer just doesn't play nicely with FF while Chrome never had any issues.

Oh, I only use the Windows version anyway so I can't say anything about the phone versions. Even tho Chrome might be faster, privacy goes first for me.

 

[Dex4Sure]

Oh, I only use the Windows version anyway so I can't say anything about the phone versions. Even tho Chrome might be faster, privacy goes first for me.

I need to use my browser across different devices. Gotta say that when you need fast browser with great syncing capabilities Chrome is still the top dog to this day. There are many other fast Chromium browsers, but none of them really come close to Chrome in reliability of their sync feature. That's big problem for me as multi-device user. I have large number of bookmarks of which many are vital to me. For example Brave is great, but its sync is just inadequate for me.

The only browser that can somewhat compete in syncing with Chrome is Firefox, but it has the issues I mentioned earlier. And well perhaps Edge, but never really used it and don't think I will... So looks like I'm stuck with Google unfortunately.

 

[CyberTech]

off-topic
when someone make a new thread about his/her config so some members talk about something instead of the config

Spoiler: :)

 

[Dex4Sure]

off-topic
when someone make a new thread about his/her config so some members talk about something instead of the config

Spoiler: :)

My bad, apologies