Viruses are capable of many things, from taking over hard disk space to gaining access to your private information or draining your CPU. There are plenty of anti-virus programs available to help protect your devices and prevent such issues. It is important to choose an antivirus that has a minimal impact on your system’s performance. Every antivirus program we offer has been tested against this. The results depend on how long it takes each program to complete an operation. For instance, Kaspersky Security Cloud Free had an impact on the background of only 6% while performing a full scan, and ESET had a slightly higher impact of 12 percent.
Avira is a German company is a reputable brand in our tests. It consistently scores above 90% in the three categories of Protection (False positives) and Performance (False Positives) and Usability. Its user interface is friendly and provides a wide range of functionality including a smart firewall as well as a variety of privacy tools. Avira’s subscriptions are priced on a monthly basis rather than a set 1-3 year period, which makes it much easier to cancel or alter the subscription at any time, without having to worry about second-year renewal price shocks.
A relatively new name in our avast antivirus screensaver tests, Essentware – which was previously known as PCKeeper uses the Avira engine behind the scenes and generally scores fairly well across the spectrum. Its performance and user interface are both user-friendly, but there are some stability issues such as scan jobs freezing up – have lowered the rating. The detection was satisfactory and a perfect run of the certification sets resulted in VB100.
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