They can be anything from taking your hard disk space, to accessing your private data and draining your CPU. There are a variety of anti-virus programs available that can help protect your devices from the kinds of issues. It is important to choose an antivirus that has a minimal impact on your system’s performance. Each of our antivirus programs is tested against this factor. The results below are basing them on the length of time it takes each program to perform an operation. For instance, Kaspersky Security Cloud Free had an impact on the background of only 6.6% when it was running an entire scan, while ESET had a slightly greater impact of 12%.
Germany-based Avira is well-known in our tests and consistently scores above the 90% mark in all three categories – Security, Performance and Usability (False Positives). Its UI is also user comfortable and has a wealth of functions, including a clever firewall and other privacy tools. Avira’s subscriptions are priced on a monthly basis, rather than a fixed 1-3 year period, making it easier to cancel or change the subscription at any time, without worrying about 2nd-year renewal price shocks.
Essentware previously known as PCKeeper was a relatively new name to our tests. It uses the Avira Engine that runs under the hood. Overall, it performed well. Its interface is easy to use and its performance was acceptable this month, but a few stability issues – mostly with scan jobs not being able to connect – affected the score. The detection was excellent and a flawless run of the certification sets was rewarded with VB100.
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