Security analyst AV Comparatives has released their 2008 performance analysis for leading anti-virus solutions. Sixteen different products from wildly different ends of the price scale were pitted head-to-head in a battle to prove which application has the greatest impact on system performance.
The results are actually rather surprising or amusing:
- In file copy operations, Symantec’s Norton Anti-Virus was amongst the fastest tested.
- F-Secure was consistently the slowest solution in all tests. The performance impact regularly exceeded 400%.
- Fan favorites like AVIRA performed exceptionally well.
At the conclusion of the testing, just over half of the products were good enough to receive the highest advanced rating: ESET, Symantec, VBA32, Avast, McAfee, Microsoft, BitDefender, GDATA, and AVIRA.
The report is a quality and enlightening read (PDF).
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