“Avast Pro Antivirus 5” plus 2 more |
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| Posted: 29 Nov 2010 09:48 PM PST G-Data AntiVirus 2011 ($US30 for a single-PC, one-year license as of 11/23/2010) placed fourth -- albeit a close fourth -- in our roundup of 2011 antivirus products. G-Data continues its recent trend of strong malware detection, blocking, and removal in 2011, and couples it with a good interface. G-Data AntiVirus is generally easy to use. Its installation process took a few more steps than I would have liked, but it was reasonably straightforward. The main interface clearly indicates your PC's protection status, though it does lack a "master" everything's-protected-and configured-correctly status indicator that's present in many antivirus products. The scan screen isn't as simple as it is in some other products, but is still well laid out. G-Data is a German import, and I found that some of the language in alerts and other parts of the interface may not have been translated as well as it could have been. Despite these minor issues with its interface, G-Data has muscle where it counts most: stopping malware. It detected 99.4 percent of malware samples in tests that scan for known malware -- the second best score in this test. And it had a good showing in tests for blocking brand-new malware: G-Data completely blocked 84 percent of such malware in AV-Test's "real-world" detection tests -- an above-average, but not quite a top-notch, score. It partially blocked an additional 4 percent of attacks. What if malware does make it onto your PC? G-Data was one of the better performers at cleaning up malware: it detected all infections on our test PC, and disinfected active malware components in 80 percent of the cases, which tied it with several other products for the top score in this test. And it removed all traces of malware infections 60 percent of the time -- again, a very good showing. In addition, G-Data AntiVirus was one of the few antivirus packages we tested that didn't flag a single "safe" file as potentially dangerous. Scan speed results were mixed. G-Data performed well in the on-demand scan tests, which determine how quickly it can run a manually initiated scan. It completed the on-demand scan of 4.5GB of data in 1 minute, 51 seconds -- the third-best score in this test. On the other hand, its on-access scan times lagged. (The on-access test is a good way to see how long it will take a product to scan files as they're opened or saved to disk.) It finished this test -- scanning 4.5GB of files -- in 5 minutes, 36 seconds, a below-average showing. G-Data AntiVirus had a moderate impact on overall PC performance. It added less than a second to startup time versus a PC with no antivirus software installed -- a negligible difference. In most other tests, its impact on performance was slightly lower than average relative to other antivirus software we tested. Although it has some minor issues, G-Data AntiVirus 2011 is a very strong package overall, and is worthy of your consideration. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Avast Free Antivirus 5: Good all-around option Posted: 29 Nov 2010 10:18 PM PST Avast Free Antivirus 5 took the top spot in our late 2010 roundup of free antivirus software. It provides good, all-around malware detection in a speedy, well-designed package. We liked its easy installation process, smooth interface design, and minimal impact in system performance. However, although it wins out overall, its malware detection, while good, isn't the best we've seen. Avast Free Antivirus 5 is well designed and generally easy to use. In most respects, it's a somewhat scaled-down version of the paid Avast Pro Antivirus 5. The installation process was quick and painless, and I had to click through only a couple of screens before it started installing. The main screen is laid out nicely and is easy to use, though not without its flaws. A slightly annoying aspect of Avast Free Antivirus the fact that a banner advertising its paid counterpart will appear on the Summary tab, but since it's unobtrusive, it isn't a serious issue. First, the negatives: In traditional malware scanner tests (which rely predominantly on signature files to identify malware), Avast Free Antivirus detected 94.8 per cent of samples, which is neither particularly good nor bad (top scorers detected over 99 per cent of malware samples). It also did a decent, though not outstanding, job at detecting malware in our real-world malware detection tests: It completely blocked 76 per cent of attacks (which is right about average), and partially blocked four per cent of attacks. The top performer in this test, the free Comodo Internet Security Premium, completely blocked 96 per cent of attacks. But on the plus side, Avast Free Antivirus didn't falsely identify a single "safe" file as a piece of malware, the only free product we looked at that did so. Avast Free also did a good job at disinfecting a PC, detecting all infections on our test PC and removing all active components of malware infections 80 per cent of the time, which set the pace among the free products we reviewed. Scan speeds are very good, too. It scanned 4.5GB of data in 90 seconds in the on-demand scan test (that is, scans started by pressing the Scan Now button). This was a close second to Avira AntiVir Personal, which completed the test in 87 seconds. And Avast Free completed the on-access scan speed test in 3 minutes, 40 seconds -- tops among the products we looked at. This is a good test to tell how well security software can scan for malware when files are opened or saved to disk. Avast Free Antivirus also had a low impact on PC performance. Our test PC with Avast Free installed booted up in 44.5 seconds, which is roughly 4.5 seconds slower than the PC without antivirus software installed, but less of a slowdown than the average of the free antivirus software we looked at. The same held true for many of the other speed tests we performed. Avast's support options outclass other free antivirus programs. Unlike most free antivirus software which only comes with online support, Avast offers free telephone support, so you'll actually be able to talk with someone directly if you have a problem. For some, that alone may be worth the tradeoff of good-but-not-top-notch malware detection. Although it wasn't the top performer in every category, Avast Free Antivirus is an excellent, well-rounded free antivirus program. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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