The virus can do a wide range of things, ranging from stealing hard disk space to gaining access to your personal information or draining your CPU. There are many anti-virus programs on the market to protect your devices from such issues. It is important to select an antivirus that has a minimal impact on the system performance. This is a crucial aspect that all of our antivirus programs are tested against. The results below are determined by the amount of time it takes for each program to perform an operation. For instance, Kaspersky Security Cloud Free had an impact on the background of 6% while performing the full scan, while ESET had a slightly greater impact of 12%.
Avira is a German company is a reputable brand in our tests. It always scores over 90% in all three categories: Protection (False positives) and Performance (False Positives) and Usability. The user interface has a wealth of features, including a smart “firewall” and various privacy tools. Avira subscriptions are billed monthly instead of a fixed 1-3 year period. This makes it easier to cancel your subscription or make adjustments at any time.
A fairly new name in our tests, Essentware – which was previously known as PCKeeper utilizes the Avira engine under the hood and generally scores well across the all the tests. The interface is easy to use and its performance was acceptable this month, but some stability issues – mostly related to scan jobs locking up dented the rating. The detection was excellent and a perfect run of the certification sets was rewarded with VB100.