Best Performing (Speed and Memory Usage) AV and Internet Security for 2010

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#1

FYI

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2010/02/03/best-performing-speed-and-memory-usage-antivirus-and-internet-security-for-2010/

Al

#2

Interesting. Raymond’s test CPU is faster mine, yet in his findings CIS delayed the average boot time by 9.77 seconds. If my boot time was delayed that many seconds, I would notice it without a doubt. On my PC, there was no hardly any difference with or without CIS. Then again, I don’t have Comodo anti-virus and my OS is nLited and tweaked.

#3

PrevX can scan 13.23GB is 24 seconds!! ???

Maybe if it was a single 13.23GB file. Either that or I’ve got to get one of those hard drives!!

Interesting test though.

Ewen :slight_smile:

#4

It’s all cloud based and AFAIK they only do a quick scan (of the most important sections) only ?

eXp

#5

So it didn’t actually scan 13.23GB of files on the file system?

#6

I would doubt so, I cant see it happen. That would be 13.23 GB in 24 secs → that would be uploading 1.8GB/s to the cloud for analysis. and even if you have such a fast connection, I doubt the harddrive is able to access all that data so fast.

So I think it only scans executables (actual threads)

A post I’m basing myself on :

It doesn’t necessarily scan every file but it considers all of them - most of the files on the disk are useless/inactive and pose no threat to the end user when just sitting dormant so there is no need to waste time looking for them.

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Xan