The individual test sectionsĪV-TEST refers to the 5 test sections as the "Real-World Test", as all the tested operations are typically performed daily multiple times by users. The application finishing last, Threat Track, requires over 300 seconds on average for the same procedure.
A Windows system with an installed Kaspersky security application examines the files and requires 165 seconds for copying. In the test, the reference system without any protection requires just over 141 seconds to copy the test set from AV-TEST containing 3.3 GB. In order to more clearly understand the figures, here is an example with two individual scores: Every user quickly becomes impatient, especially when copying files under Windows. No product attained the worst score of 25 slow-down points. The solutions from Norman, Quick Heal and Threat Track already slow down a PC significantly with 12, 12.4 and 13.9 load points. If the system is protected by the Windows built-in Security Essentials or Microsoft Defender, the load is 8.7 points. All other 14 products are above that threshold.
The additional 6 products from McAfee, Bullguard, Trend Micro, Norton, Avira and F-Secure also achieve good rankings at 6.1 to 7.9 load points in their endurance test results. Following close behind are the security packages from Bitdefender and Qihoo 360 with 5.3 and 5.7 points respectively. As previously mentioned, the maximum perfect score was 5.0. The lowest influence and thus the best speed-performance rating was achieved by the product from Kaspersky with only 5.1 load points.
All partial results of the tests were aggregated and at the end divided by the number of 7 test rounds. Thus for all 5 test sections, this resulted in a perfect score of 5 and a worst score of 25 load points. For 21 to 40 percent there were 2 points, for 41 to 60 percent drop in performance, 3 points, and so on up to 5 points. If an antivirus application slowed down a system between 0 and 20 percent, it received 1 load point. A more in-depth explanation on the topic of reference systems can be found later in the "Test Configuration" section.įor all products in the tests, it was measured how long they required for various test sets, in order toįor all subsections, load points of 1 to 5 were assigned after each test, whereby a score of 1 represents good and a score of 5 poor. The reference system without any protection software was used for later comparison of the measured performance ratings. In addition, a Windows system with the freeware Microsoft Security Essentials or Defender (for Windows 8/8.1) was put through all the tests as an additional comparative figure.
Included in the test were products from Ahnlab, Avast, AVG (freeware and purchase product), Avira, Bitdefender, BullGuard, Comodo, ESET, F-Secure, G Data, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microworld, Norman, Norton, Panda, Qihoo 360, Quick Heal, Tencent, Threat Track and Trend Micro.
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