Performance Test by Tune- Up Blog

hi
Found another comparison of security suite performance . Few products were tested.

I thought some of you might be interested .

Here is the link :

http://blog.tune-up.com/windows-ins...-out-do-security-solutions-slow-down-your-pc/

 

I wonder what crap computers they ran the tests on when the quickest boot time, without any security software, was 180 seconds!

 

lol, nice find

 

probably lots of junk startup items..?

 

Usually Norton has two processes running, not three.

 

An intel core i7 extreme with 8gb ram with a clean win7 installation and the latest version of TuneUp Utilities 2011 with all the recomemded settings

 

probably a laptop?

 

this is normal after some sessions with tuneup :d

 

MSE in the front but whenever i tried it it took like half a minute to display a folder with few slightly bigger EXE in it. All the icons were generic EXE until scanned and then icons appeared. And its the fastest. HOW!?!??!!?! Lol...

 

Only 5 products? Also comparing suites against a standalone AV. Meh.

 

That's my experience too but then this is one aspect that I have never see tested in any performance test. IMHO the impact an AV has on explorer.exe is one of the biggest factors in determining how 'light' is the system perceived to be by the user.

 

180 seconds can happen on relatively fast systems too depending on -

1. you have skype and WLM on start-up.
2. weather skype and WLM were set to auto-login in the background.
3. the kind of network connection the PC was using during tests - for e.g. for certain atheros and broadcom wi-fi cards the start-up time is too high.

 

too bad dont see G-DATA, bitdefender, Lavasoft Internet Security, Emsisoft not included all the monsters left out

 

You forgot TrustPort and Coranti. There's MetaScan as well.

 

+1.

 

In my experience, MSE is heavy.

 

Mine too. I think people think it is light because the simple interface does not show you what it is doing. Ont time I was using a system with MSE and it was running very slow. It (MSE) was giving no indication of doing anything but I found in Process Explorer that is was scanning a rather large .iso file I had on the hard drive.

 

After making it scan incoming only (only new files), it is light.

 

And why do you have to do that when other programs don't need such restrictions to work fast?

 

Ask Microsoft, I'm not sure myself. Probably something to do with their engine speed, and the fact that they don't use caching.

 

surely it isn't the amount of time the PC takes to do anything but the increase caused by the suites?:-isn't this type of test just to show the hit on performance not overall performance of the PC used?

 

Lol... An amateur performance test arguing ESET is fast and with low resource usage, based on incorrect methods of testing

unbelievable, but true

 

http://www.raymond.cc/antivirus/

for a more reliable test

 

I would recommend PassMark performance tests, too.

 

Unfortunately it is pretty outdated at this point.