They can be anything from taking the space on your hard disk to accessing your private data and draining your CPU. Thankfully, there are many antivirus tools available that can help safeguard your gadgets and avoid these kinds of issues. It is important to choose one that is not likely to have an impact on your system’s performance. Every antivirus program we offer has been tested against this. The results are based on the time 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 has a great reputation in our tests. It always scores over 90 percent in the three categories of Protection (False positives), Performance (False Positives) and Usability. The UI has a variety of functionality that includes a smart «firewall» as well as a variety of privacy tools. Avira’s subscriptions are priced on a monthly basis, rather than a predetermined 1-3 year period, which makes it simpler to cancel or alter the subscription at any point without having to worry about 2nd-year renewal price shocks.
Essentware previously known as PCKeeper it is a new name for our tests. It runs the Avira Engine in the background. Overall it scored quite well. Its interface is simple to use and its performance was decent this month, though some stability issues – mostly with scan jobs not being able to connect – reduced the score. However, detection was good, and a perfect run through the certification sets earned it the VB100 award.