maintain transparency in corporate finance
Viruses are capable of a variety of things, ranging from stealing hard disk space to access to your private information or draining your CPU. There are numerous anti-virus programs available to guard your devices from the dangers. The most important thing is to select one that has the least impact on your system’s performance. Every antivirus program we offer is tested against this aspect. The results below are determined by the amount of time it takes each program to complete an operation. For instance, Kaspersky Security Cloud Free had a background impact of 6.6% when it was running the full scan, while ESET had a slightly higher impact of 12%.
Avira is a German-based company has a great reputation in our tests. It always scores over 90% in the three categories of Protection (False positives) and Performance (False Positives) and Usability. Its user interface is easy to use and comes with a variety of functions, including a clever ‘firewall’ and various privacy tools. Avira’s subscriptions are priced on a monthly basis, rather than a predetermined 1-3-year period, which makes it much easier to cancel or modify the subscription at any point without having to worry about 2nd-year renewal price shocks.
A relatively new name that we have tested, Essentware – which was previously known as PCKeeper is a program that runs the Avira engine behind the scenes and generally scores pretty well across the spectrum. Its UI is simple to use and its performance was good this month, though a few stability issues – mostly due to scan jobs locking up dented the rating. The detection was satisfactory and a perfect run of the certification sets earned VB100.
