AV-Comparatives release new performance test.

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  1. JasSolo

    JasSolo Registered Member

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    Hi all, well the header says it all. Head over there and read the article :)


    Cheers
     
  2. GES/POR

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    TY for the headsup! :thumb:
     
  3. C.S.J

    C.S.J Massive Poster

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    hmm,

    if a product slows my machine down by 40%, i would not label this has fast.

    IBK, have you lost your mind? :D *joke*
     
  4. zfactor

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    wow some suprising and some i firgured as much
     
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    Nice to see Symantec doing well.
     
  6. zfactor

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    yeah i was def happy to see them come as far as they have. i was a die hard norton hater myself and im actually running it for now..its really a great setup.
     
  7. ugly

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    Kaspersky is fast on this test and on my PC.
    I never had that huge difference in boot time between Avira,Eset or Kaspersky.o_O (f-secure faster then kaspersky o_O - not in my experience).
     
  8. RejZoR

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    avast! just proved again that their engine is indeed fast.
    If ALWIL guys prove again with November's proactive test they'll really show off what they really have under the hood mwahahah (nnot that i don't know that already but i like to see it written on professional webpage).
     
  9. dawgg

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    Nice one, lots of people requested it, its finally here :)

    Test 1 and 2 most important to me
    Test 3 little importance to me (... video/music encoding software need not be scanned so should be added to exclusions to speed up the process and free up an unnecessary waste of resources IMO). Guess this test also inadvertently indicates how well tuned the engine may be and impact scenarios other than encoding, but we dont know to what extent.
    Test 4 a little important to me (as mentioned in the report, I only boot up once or twice a day)

    Surprised about Gdata being relatively decent and F-Secure being so slow.

    Doubt most people here read the report and just look at the graph, so I'll fill you in - footnote 17 says F-Secure's updated scanner (which will be released in early 2009) would be rated "Very Fast" with an overhead of +34%.
    Eyes wide open with this one, would be interesting to see the results when the updated scanner is actually released. I always take stats about unreleased products (developing/testing stages) with a rather large pinch of salt.
     
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    hmm im surprised avira that high on some of the charts, but it still did decent overall. and last time i tried Eset AV it didnt seem that light to me, in my opinion it wasnt as light as kav or avira.
     
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    Ya thanks for the heads up :)
     
  12. clocks

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    No Comodo? Ugh.
     
  13. vijayind

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    Guess, the "Slow as molassis" tag given to F-Secure by someone in this forum is befitting ....

    Hmm... My old junked HP PC with 512 MB RAM is overloaded with crap. Maybe I'll shift to ESET Smart Security on it. If IBK tests are right, I'll see a BIG performance jump.

    *thinking*
     
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    Noway, you are not allowed to post that this way. please change the url
     
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    Good To See Norton labeled Advanced+:p
     
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    I am not saying you won't, but keep on mind that the results on a machine that different (compared to the ones the test was performed on) might be significantly different as well.
     
  18. mata7

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    i use avira on high settings and i don't notice any slow down, i don't use webguard
     
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    It would have been better that the products were also tested on "older" systems that only have 512 MB and a less powerful processor. Or shouldn't that make any difference compared with the test systems that were used? I know that it's a first test. My computer has only 512 MB ram that is why I wanted to see that tested in a future test.
     
  20. vijayind

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    :D , I did ...
    But I must say ESET Smart Security, does feel lighter than KIS2009. The difference is not HUGE, but it does bootup and feel lighter.
     
  21. dawgg

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    Or you can upgrade your RAM... no point testing older setups... as time goes on, users PCs get better - so should test PCs alongside this.

    Anyway, the ranking of AVs will remain similar regardless of RAM.
     
  22. i_g

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    Why do you think that?
    Some of the antiviruses may use quite a lot of memory (either constantly, or only during scanning... doesn't really matter); on a system with a lot of free memory, you won't notice - but a weaker system may start swapping and many operations will suddently grow terribly slower.
     
  23. emperordarius

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    Good results for G-DATA, I'm surprised. Bad for Trustport, considering it was using only two engines.

    btw: When will the November(or better, December) detection test be available?
     
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    They have said it will b avail in beginning of 2009;)
     
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