AV-Comparatives: Performance Test - October 2016 http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php?chart=chart4&year=2016&month=10&sort=1 https://www.av-comparatives.org/performance-tests/
My two Win 10 machines are pretty fast but there was a noticeable difference between Avira and Microsoft which is confirmed by this test. I would use MS for its detection capability but I find unacceptable that being incorporated with Windows it has such results in the performance test.
Tenecent's PC Manager is doing very well agian, being the only product to get a very fast rating in every category.
Avira is incredibly light on my desktop computer. I have tried numerous other products and Avira has the least impact on my computing experience. This kind of back and forth from individual users about what is light and what is not is the reason why I don't think performance tests are super helpful. Everybody needs to judge for themselves because each product can have widely varying impact on each person's computer.
imo avira is super light on anything current. if you have a system that is a bit older then i agree it can be a bit heavy but anything more current its one of the lightest out there imo maybe even the lightest. and i see pretty much every type of system config you can see out there in the field
I'll tell you what is "light". F-Secure Ultralight is the AV that I've ever dreamed of. Can't wait till it goes out of beta.
wow nothing i have ever seen the name f secure on was even remotely light in any way. ill bet it has almost no settings? going to check it out.
Maybe I'm wrong but this looks abandoned to me....the product is in beta for almost 2 years and the last post in its topic was 10 months ago.
It's still being updated. I received an email from F-Secure yesterday, detailing a GUI bug which happens after the latest product update is installed, which is fixed by rebooting.
but usually these types of av's have little to no settings and auto delete etc. i have not had the chance to try it out yet but i will this week.
Its core engine was updated a few days ago so no, it's still being developed. I couldn't try their first beta because it was for 64-bit OS only, then months later when the 32-bit was available it was very unstable so I had to remove it. In August, I noticed its last installer was signed on June 21 which told me FSUA development was still alive. So I installed it and since then I have no plans to remove it off my system, and I mean it. It is so 'invisible' and terribly effective (banking protection included), well I'm overwhelmed... of happiness. I really really hope that the final product can see the light soon and I'm willing to pay the price F-Secure thinks it's worth.
F-Secure has a few perpetual betas going, which will never make it to a release version. I was part of their "FS Protection" all in one Beta, and it was VERY light, basically an all in one suite. I have since moved on to Webroot (which is amazingly light) but I loved FS Protection when I used it. Ultralight is very, VERY light, but almost zero options, it's an autopilot program. That concerns me a bit.
