They can be anything from stealing your hard disk space, to accessing your personal information and draining your CPU. There are a myriad of anti-virus applications on the market to protect your gadgets from these problems. It is important to choose one that is not likely to have an impact on your system’s performance. All of our antivirus software is tested against this. The results are based on how long it takes each application to complete an operation. Kaspersky Security Cloud Free, for instance had a background impact of just 6% when scanning the entire system, while ESET had an impact of 12%.
Germany-based Avira is well-known in our tests and consistently performs well above the 90% mark in all three categories: Security, Performance and Usability (False Positives). Its interface is also user easy to use and comes with a variety of functions, including a clever ‘firewall’ and various privacy tools. Avira subscriptions are priced per month instead of a fixed 3 to 5 years. This makes it much easier to cancel your subscription or change the terms at any time.
A fairly new name that we’ve tested, Essentware – which was previously known as PCKeeper utilizes the Avira engine under the hood and generally scores pretty well across the board. Its performance avastantivirusreview.com/here-are-5-most-progressive-features-of-a-board-management-software and UI are both user-friendly but there are a few issues with stability such as scanning jobs freezing and causing the rating to drop. The detection was good and a flawless run of the certification sets resulted in VB100.