AV-Comparatives: Performance-Test October 2015

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

 

Lower is better I take it?

Kaspersky seems to consistently be in the top over the years.

 

Indeed! The only reason I won't install it is because 3 installations and the license is blacklisted, doesn't work for someone like me who formats a lot otherwise it is an excellent solution, both light and superb file detection

 

So what do you use then?

 

Funny thing is, I found no other option, NOD32 was too heavy for my liking so I went ahead and purchased a license, after installing it, updating it, rebooting, then running a full scan so that all the files are whitlisted (meaning unless their hash changes, they won't be scanned again), my system feels very snappy.

 

I just ended up getting Avira Free edition, seems to work well.

 

Excellent choice for both lightness and protection. Wish it didn't have that annoying Avira launcher, but hey, for free it can't be perfect. Better than Avast with its ad bombardment at least.

 

Yeah Kaspersky is currently on sale and I was going to buy it, but thought I'd give Avira a try first.

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right give it a spin for a while and see how you like it. When I had Avira on, it gave me trouble while accessing my ASUS RT-AC68U's router config page until I disabled it, but other than that it was fine

 

For a professional user, I recommend a paid anti virus, usually the Avast.
For a normal user, the Avast free is more than enough.

 

I've read Avast lets you sign, that they're allowed to drive DDoS attacks on your PC in the free version.

 

And anything to back that up, or any details? This sounds like a meaningless hearsay at best.
I tried a cursory search on this and found nothing.

 

I read very many different security forums at that time, so I can trace it back, but when I googled Avast + DDoS on user I i. e. instantly found this report about Avast conducting MitM attacks.

 

@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.

 

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.

 

i am currently on avast, should i switch to something else?

 

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?

 

Contact Marcos at ESET forums and he will pinpoint you to how to troubleshoot that slowdown. They have great support. ESET Forum

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.

 

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 ^^ .

 

Do that, I promise you they will not disappoint you and will keep working with you until you are happy.