AV-Comparatives Performance Test - April 2022

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  1. Spartan

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    Chart: https://www.av-comparatives.org/comparison/?usertype=consumer&chart_chart=chart4&chart_year=2022&chart_month=4&chart_sort=1&chart_zoom=0

    Article: https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/performance-test-april-2022/
     
  2. Spartan

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    I wonder why F-Secure stopped participating in this test :rolleyes:
     
  3. Antarctica

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    Thank you @Spartan :)
     
  4. Spartan

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    Always a pleasure. To me the Performance Test is the most important as they all have relatively good protection. I care the most about how an AV doesn't cripple my laptop's performance TBH.
     
  5. xxJackxx

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    It does factor heavily into why I am running what I am running.
     
  6. Spartan

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    Glad we're on the same page!
     
  7. bellgamin

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    Hmm... then, based on THIS AV-Comp chart, does that mean you are running K7 or Panda as your AV?
     
  8. Spartan

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    I tried K7 in the past, I would never use it again it gave me the most false positives I have ever seen in my life and their tech support is atrocious. Panda is my favorite free AV, never did it give me any problems or false positives unlike some people here who had not had a good experience with its FP rates.

    My favorite AVs:
    1) F-Secure Antivirus
    2) Panda Free Antivirus
    3) ESET NOD32, although I steer away from it now as I don't like its HTTP scanner I do feel a slowdown in my internet compared to F-Secure, Panda doesn't touch your internet connection, only local scanning.
     
  9. moredhelfinland

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    Surprisingly good result for G-Data, if you compare it their previous result(s).
     
  10. bellgamin

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    @Spartan -- F-Secure? I have heard lots of good things about them, but they are a bit pricey, right?

    Does anyone know which engine F-Secure uses? I read somewhere that they use Bitdefender's engine. Correct?

    I regret that F-Secure evidently opted out of AV-C's Performance test. However, if F-Secure uses Bitdefender's engine, then F-Secure's performance load should be roughly as low or lower than Bitdefender's middling-low performance load, right?
     
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  11. Gandalf_The_Grey

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    They use Avira nowadays:
    https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/f-secure-with-new-engine.412932/
     
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  13. Spartan

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    it is very light as it has no nonsense system optimizers or driver updater or software updater or browser extensions. Just a plain powerful AV engine.

    I got a 3 year license for 29 USD on their official site and I'm sure you can get it cheaper from reputable sellers on eBay. At least give the trial a go first to see how you like it.
     
  14. moredhelfinland

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    F-Secure is good, very good for not-so-tech-savvy ppl. Their banking protection is amazing. It's something like Norton's banking protection. But Norton Banking Protection does not support my country(Finland) banks, mebbe because Norton is not EU GDPR compliant (collecting user data).
    F-Secure disable all other connections when banking, IF your bank is GDPR certified bank. So, its kind of a vpn tunnel between you and the bank, all other network connections goes down during the bankin.
     
  15. xxJackxx

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    You could disable Protocol Filtering. I wouldn't, but you can.
     
  16. Brummelchen

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    SSL/TLS scanning is MITM and can lead (and ofc it will somethimes) to issues you do not expect.
    downloads are scanned anyway, to intercept web content adblockers like ublock or adblock plus are superior to eset.
     
  17. Trooper

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    I always disable this scanning regardless of AV. But with ESET, especially so.
     
  18. Spartan

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    I know you could bro, been using NOD32 since v2. The problem is if you do disable it, the ESET icon is amber which messes with my OCD as if something is not right. I just don't want anything touching my internet connection. I want a powerful scanner and nothing else.
     
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    Same here. I miss v2 but life was simpler then. I forgot they were changing the icon now so yeah, good enough reason to just use something else.
     
  20. bigwrench9

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    F Secure…..
    Best deals around.

    Internet Security (PCs only)
    https://serialcart.com/coupon/f-secure-internet-security
    F Secure Safe (all devices)
    https://serialcart.com/coupon/f-secure-safe
    F Secure Total (Safe plus VPN and password manager)
    https://serialcart.com/buy/f-secure-total
     
  21. Brummelchen

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    2.70.39 is hold here in my archive, also the ERA from that time, any other ESET was abandoned for reason, not satisfying.
     
  22. moredhelfinland

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    Stupid Window Defender and its even stupid firewall component relies on that. So easy do disable in so many ways. Never ever use Windows based firewall softwares, ever.
     
  23. Minimalist

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    I also don't like icon colour change so instead of turning it off I just exclude browser and other software from protocol filtering which accomplishes the same without systray icon colour change.
    Similarly I disable Outlook integration instead of turning mail protection off entirely.
    That is when I decide that I don't want to use both features.
    OTOH I turn off entirely banking protection as it can interfere with SBIE even when safe browser is not launched.
     
  24. Spartan

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    which post are you referring to or what are you replying? Im lost here
     
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    A completely meaningless comment! o_O
     
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