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Antivirus software is the most important software you can have for your computer. It can be a very tough decision to choose the right antivirus program especially when there are so many of them and you can only have one on a computer. Late 2008 I did a test on 29 antivirus software to look for the free antivirus that is the lightest on system memory usage. I only checked the total memory usage during idle and during scanning. Other than that, Ive also checked on the detection to see if it can detect the private trojan which I had at that time. Two years has gone by and I was curious to know if Kaspersky still do well or has been overtaken by Norton? After the new year, Ive decided to do some tests on a total of 104 different types of antivirus and internet security applications. Ive taken nearly a month, running the test day and night to finish this report. This is what that has been keeping me really busy the whole month of January 2010.Download Free Trojan & Virus Scan Recommended and Used By The Experts

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The test includes Application Launch Time, Boot Time Increase, Time to complete a Full Scan, Memory usage during Idle, Peak Memory Usage and Installation Size. Every test is done on the same clean Windows XP SP3 with all latest updates. Norton Ghost is being used to re-image the hard drive whenever I am going to test the next antivirus so that the test is fair. All antivirus tested had the latest versions, upgrades and updates and default settings being used. Here are the antivirus and internet security that is included in the test. Anti-Virus SoftwareProtect Your Computer from Viruses, Spyware, Fraud, & Much More!

1. Avira AntiVir Personal v9 2. Avira AntiVir Premium v9 3. Avira Premium Security Suite v9 4. AVG Anti-Virus v9 5. AVG Internet Security v9 6. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition v9 7. avast! Free Antivirus v5 8. avast! Internet Security v5 9. avast! Pro Antivirus v5 10. a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 11. Ashampoo AntiSpyWare 2.10 12. Ashampoo Anti-Malware v1 13. ArcaVir 2010 Antivirus Protection 14. AhnLab V3 Internet Security 8.0 15. Antiy Ghostbusters v6.5.1.4 16. Ad-Aware Pro Internet Security v8.1.3 17. BitDefender Antivirus 2010 18. BitDefender Internet Security 2010 19. BitDefender Total Security 2010 20. BluePoint Security 2010 21. BullGuard Internet Security 8.7 22. CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2010 23. CA Anti-Virus Plus Anti-Spyware 2010 24. Command Anti-Malware v5.1 25. Comodo Internet Security v3.13 26. Digital Patrol v5.2 27. DriveSentry Desktop v3.4 and DriveSentry Security Suite v1 28. Dr.WEB Anti-Virus v5 29. Dr.WEB Security Space v5 30. eEye Blink Personal v4.5.1 31. eScan AntiVirus v10 32. eScan Internet Security Suite 33. ESET NOD32 Antivirus v4 34. ESET Smart Security v4 35. FortiClient Endpoint Security Suite v4.1.2 36. F-PROT Antivirus v6 37. G Data AntiVirus 2010 38. G Data InternetSecurity 2010 39. G Data Total Care 2010

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Best Performing (Speed and Memory Usage) Antivirus and Internet Security for 2010 Raymond.CC Blog40. IKARUS virus.utilities v1.0.166 41. Immunet Protect v1.0.22 42. iolo AntiVirus v1.5.3 43. iolo System Shield 3 44. KV AntiVirus 2010 45. K7 AntiVirus v7.0 46. K7 TotalSecurity v10.0 47. Kingsoft Internet Security 9 Plus 48. Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 49. Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 50. McAfee VirusScan Plus 51. McAfee Internet Security 52. McAfee Total Security 53. Microsoft Security Essentials 54. mks_vir v9.0 55. MultiCore AntiVirus & AntiSpyware v2 56. My Free Antivirus v2.2 57. Net Protector 2010 58. Norman Security Suite 59. Norton AntiVirus 2010 v17.1.0.19 60. Norton Internet Security 2010 61. Norton 360 Version 3.0 62. nProtect Anti-Virus Spyware 2007 63. Outpost Antivirus Pro 2009 64. Outpost Security Suite 2009 65. Keygold Secure Internet Security Suite 66. Panda Could Antivirus 67. Panda Antivirus Pro 2010 68. Panda Internet Security 2010 69. Panda Global Protection 2010 70. ParetoLogic Anti-Virus PLUS v6.1.1 71. Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus 2010 72. PC Tools Internet Security 2010 73. Prevx 3.0 74. Protector Plus Professional v9 75. Rising AntiVirus 2010 76. Solo Anti-Virus 2010 77. Spyware Terminator 2.6.5 78. Steganos AntiVirus 12 79. Steganos Internet Security 12 80. The Cleaner 2010 81. Security Shield 2010 82. The Shield Deluxe 2010 83. Thirtyseven4 Antivirus 84. Trend Micro Internet Security 2010 85. Trend Micro AntiVirus + AntiSpyware 2010 86. Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 87. TrustPort Antivirus 2010 88. TrustPort PC Security 2010 89. Twister AntiVirus 90. Vba32 Personal v3.12.10.11 91. VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware 92. Vir.IT eXplorer AntiVirus v6.5 93. ViRobot Desktop v5.5 94. VirusBuster Personal v6.2.51 95. VirusBuster Professional v6.2.51 96. VirusBuster Internet Security Suite v3.1 97. Virus Chaser v5.0b 98. VIRUSfighter 99. Webroot AntiVirus with Spy Sweeper 2010 100. Webroot Internet Security Essentials 2010 101. Zondex Guard v5.4.2 102. ZoneAlarm Antivirus 2010 103. ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2010 104. ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2010 105. F-Secure Antivirus 2010 106. F-Secure Internet Security 2010 Test 1: Application Launch Time - 10 launches of a web browser (Mozilla Firefox) were timed. The average in launch time is shown in the graph below.





Test 2: Boot Time Increase - Ten reboots were performed and the average boot time is shown in the graph below.



Test 3: Idle Memory Usage - Allow the computer to idle for 10 minutes and then the memory reading is being taken.



Test 4: Peak Memory Usage - Allow the computer to idle for 10 minutes and then the peak memory usage is being taken.



Test 5: Installation Size - The installation size of each Antivirus program before any updates were downloaded.





Test 6: Detection - Bifrost trojan being crypted with Incognito to avoid detection. Theoretically it should bypass all antivirus scan time because each stub is nearly 100% unique, thanks to the polymorphic generator. This test will show how good is the runtime scan of an antivirus (heuristic).



Test 7: Full Scan Time - Scan Times shown below are for default settings for each Antivirus program. 13.23GB of used hard-drive space was scanned with each virus scanner.



Note: To me, the idle memory usage readings is no longer accurate because a lot of antivirus is able to clean its memory usage bringing it to a really low number when the computer is idle. Do take a look at the peak memory usage instead. If I would to compare between the few giant antivirus brands such as Avast, Avira, Norton and Kaspersky, Id say that Avast is the lightest of all. As for Kaspersky, it is also very light but it took longer to run Firefox and this is caused by the Kaspersky URL Advisor plugin. If you remove the plugin from Firefox, it only takes about an average of 0.79 seconds. As for Avira, it has one of the fastest launch time but the peak memory usage is pretty high and the boot time is slower than Kaspersky and Avast. From the charts, I also found out that Outpost did pretty well. It is able to successfully block the crypted Bifrost trojan by detecting memory injection/modification. Update: Added F-Secure (duh not sure how I missed that one) in the test report and also included full scan time test which I suppose to attach but somehow it got left out. Make sure you hit the Refresh/Reload button to see the latest bar graph. Spyware Virus RemoverFree Spyware Scan. Award-winning Spyware Remover. Download now.

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65 Responses for "Best Performing (Speed and Memory Usage) Antivirus and Internet Security for 2010"acpicx

February 3rd, 2010 at 4:05 pm

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Wow, nice share.

Kshiteej


what do u think about NORTON?

flash113


why wasnt f-secure included im using is2010 and its very good i think

Razor


Awesome

Nicolas


Hi Raymond Wow ! I am really impressed by the methodology and the time you spent on testing all these antivirus ! I hope youll get some recognition from these security vendors somehow. I run the Avira Antivir personal V9 on my laptop, and I was interested to see it failed your Bifrost trojan test detection I believe no antivirus is perfect anyway but this is worth raising the issue to the Avira support team as I believe it is one of the best free antivirus.


Best Performing (Speed and Memory Usage) Antivirus and Internet Security for 2010 Raymond.CC BlogIt is interesting to mention that only Prevx 3 was able to immediately stop on both run time and scan time in your test. BTW which package of Prevx 3.0 did you use for your test ? (Free, Cleanup, Protection, Safe Online) Kind Regards Nicolas

hfng


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Hi raymond, So which free antivirus would you recommend? At the moment I am using AVG.

Jose Martinez


7

Impressive !!! Very Good Work Mr. Raymond !!! Thank you very much !!!

Murphy


8

Hi, Thank you . an impressive work . Best regards !

bivas600


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very very helpful comparison ray. u r certainly great and good to see that norton able to block the virus

Nicolas


10

Raymond here is another remark. Did you try the test with Drive Sentry Desktop 3.4 (http://www.drivesentry.com/) ? Nicolas

Firas


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Thanks a lot Raymond for the informations, but Im using Kaspersky internet security 2010 (9.0.0.736) and the memory usage is much higher than yours (it takes about 150 MB). Any reason for that ? Best regards


Best Performing (Speed and Memory Usage) Antivirus and Internet Security for 2010 Raymond.CC Blogidaho


12 13

Thank you Raymond for this post, really great job, very informative

amon


Thats a terrific review. Thank you so much.

Riveo


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a GOOD article

xera216


nice report ray !

Dradolan


Wow. That is sure good to know. I would get my friends to look at this and perhaps change anti-viruses or suites. Thanks Raymond.

Ahmad Saleem


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Thanks a lot Raymond, Such a great informative article, I miss your articles but you are now back with bang. I like this article, very helpful for selecting antivirus. Once again, Thanks..

James


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Woah, Im certainly gonna try out Multicore antivirus and antispyware v2, that looks to be the best program out of the lot. /sarcasm.

Raymond


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@flash113: Oops, yeah I guess I missed F-Secure. I am testing it now and will include in the report. @Nicolas: Avira is able to detect the public bifrost but since it is crypted with Incognito, it now cannot be detected. As for PrevX, I tried the free version which has no problem detecting it.


Best Performing (Speed and Memory Usage) Antivirus and Internet Security for 2010 Raymond.CC Blog@hfng: I still recommend Kaspersky. @Nicolas: I did try to include Drive Sentry to the test but then I was unable to activate the advisor account and unable to start database synchronization.

John Matt


20

Great work man.Can you put light on A2 and BIT..Which one has an advantage on other.

ahmad


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Thanks ray useful

Lateralus


Thanx Raymond, this is interesting too bad you didnt test on a Vista system never understood why people hate Vista so much the security is not hard to handle after you learn how it works and have a right-click take ownership context menu item. I prefer Vista to XP anydayMaybe we could see these tests in Vista and 7/ 32 and 64 bit.

Manu


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Hi Raymond, Superb.. Simply superb..

Ram Agarwal


Thanks a lot Ray. Its a terrific review.I am really impressed the time you spent on testing all these antivirus. We missed your articales but you came back with you came back with bang. This is your best post of 2010. But answer is still unclear that which anti virus you would recommend to your subscribers. Please help us.

venkat


25 26

very gud effort ray

kantagara


whoah raymond that is nice test. Thank God I use avast! 5 free



JF


27 28 29

Wow! Great work Ray & thanks for sharing

Mn3mic (Joc)


Very helpful, great test and the results are interesting

F3Speech


hfng February 3rd, 2010 at 4:51 pm 6 Hi raymond, So which free antivirus would you recommend? At the moment I am using AVG. Raymond February 3rd, 2010 at 5:26 pm 19 @hfng: I still recommend Kaspersky. Raymond Is Kaspersky free somewhere Im missing?

drthanhtai


30 31

Oh, useful preview, thank Raymond!

Mohammad Mehtabuddin


nice and detail info ray.

Nisanth P


32 33

Wow, great work, good informative article as always

sharath


now a days all computer comes with 1 or 2gb ram.so there is no need to think about memory usage. we should consider the detection rate its the important thing .

Sutanuka Basu Ray


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Hello Raymond,


Best Performing (Speed and Memory Usage) Antivirus and Internet Security for 2010 Raymond.CC BlogMarvellous work..!! Many thanks for sharing the report.. I am using Kaspersky and I wanted to know should I shift to any other antivirus/internet security software.. Kindly suggest and please do let me know. Waiting for your response, Thanking you in advance

satish naidu


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Best artical of 2010

Raymond


@sharath: Even if a computer comes with 1GB or 2GB of memory, it doesnt mean you can use a heavy memory loaded antivirus. Reason is when you utilize the computer more heavily and has more stuff installed, the antivirus will definitely have to work harder which makes Windows sluggish.

hex


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Well, Prevx really got a huge and nice malware dbase. But it keeps flagging packed files as a potential infection. Nah, that really doesnt work for me. I do pack and encrypt files for legitimate purposes other than spreading malware.

Thamza


38 39

This is quite refreshing and interesting too. Thanks Ray!

Boni


Good article I think kaspersky is still the best but when see your test, norton internet security always dominate BTW when U say that kaspersky still recommended from all antivirus, i think will stay using the kaspersky =) Nice info

ali shah


40 41

nice post of 2010..great work raymond

swarup


great work ray.


Best Performing (Speed and Memory Usage) Antivirus and Internet Security for 2010 Raymond.CC Blogit helped me a lot. but whenever install avg antivirus my computer slows down . but avira and avast doesnt slow down. many of those antivirus is new to me , i never heard of them (e.g my free antivirus). thanx again man.

John Smith


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Great Job, Reymond!!! You showed that most AV and IS products are mostly for the Easy Malware. When things get difficult, most are only for decorative purposes (i.e. little toy-scanners). Keep up with the Revealing work!!!

Nicolas


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Hi Raymond I got AVIRA ANTIVIR tech. supports feedback on your Bifrost trojan test with the following comment : As you can see, the test details are not given. The most important detail (heuristic level) is also not specified. Moreover, the run time scan is not the same as heuristic scan. As I particularly appreciate Avira (I dont have any specific interrested in their company) , I would appreciate to help to make any progress on this if needed. Best Regards Nicolas

Rudolf


44

I have a problem. There is waves rolling when i scroll this page. I couldnt find the solution. Please help!

AYAK


45

thx alot for info nice topic

Hok


46

Wao. Thx Raymond. How about next project is testing the best firewall 2010?

David Lim


47

Good Job. Really nice share.



Rudolf


48 49

OH, It was fixed when I rebooted.

Roger


Thanks for a very informative article Ray. A suggestion for a future test would be to test CPU use by different antivirus software to see how much of a slowdown the real time protection causes. This can be difficult as some AV software can cause a slow down without showing high cpu usage in task manager.

Raitokun


50 51

This post worth the days spent on it, awesome work Ray, thanks.

Dfg


Thanks for the quality post. I tested some of the heavy weights and after using them for months I finally decided to use Avast v5. Its pretty light and works like a charm. I am using it on 4 different system with different configurations and compared to other AVs its quite stable and reliable. Overall the new GUI looks stunning and the extra eye candy increases its appeal to users. Also, the free version does offer some very good protection. I would recommend users to at least try the new Avast v5.

Roger


52

Though I do realise that this is tested in part with the first test you did here. But, for example when doing file intensive operations some antivirus cause major slow downs.

Mithun John Jacob


53 54

Awesome & comprehensive report !

Raymond


@Nicolas: The default settings were used during scanning and runtime since most users doesnt really meddle with the levels of sensitivity. If I am not wrong, most antivirus that has heuristic technology should have automatically used the heuristic detection whenever I run a file. Modern antivirus doesnt rely solely on virus signature anymore.



Kroko


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Thanks Raymond for this tests !

Shajan


I thought your wife was keeping you busy all these days, Ah ! now I know what you were doing. Great work, so much of effort, time, and such a useful report. Take some rest now !

Agustin


57

Thanks You a LOT; Raymond, Aim High Great Yob, Please tell us the Best 4 stars FREE AV .

LunarWolf


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@Raymond, Surprise that Avira miss that one. You should try Avira with heuristics set to high and see it detects or not. Kaspersky detect but couldnt block, speechless. Norton, didnt expect that.

Marc


59

..tnx raymond..i think i made the right choice..ive Bitdefender total security 2010..for me the most important thing is the detection rate tnx ray

eiowwww


60

Thanks Raymond, very nice review. It help us a lot which antivirus were going to buy

mr_man


61

hmm.. this is why i love your blog very informative and you do research with your own



LEO O FORTUGALEZA


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Thanks for coming up with a study like this. I feel enriched after going quickly through your report. How I wish the others who make comparisons of security products do something like what you do. Keep up the good work and God bless!

Raymond


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@LunarWolf: Its not really fair to set Aviras heuristic detection level to High when the rest is also using the default configuration. High level of heuristic detection also means higher false positives. Anyway, as a test, I set Aviras AHeAD to HIGH. Right clicked on the crypted Bifrost trojan and select Scan selected files with AntiVir. It shows 1 scanned files and 0 detections, 0 suspicious files, 0 warnings, 0 objects searched and 0 hidden objects. I even double checked the log file and the File heuristic did say High. Next, I also set the heuristic level to HIGH for Guard. Ran the trojan and no warning or any detection at all. I hope this simple test is what you wanted.

Petit


64

I dont care about speed. But I care about detection and environment usage. Thank you for testing result. ^^

Loy


65

you are the man!! thanks for such a comprehensive analysis, it helped me a lot tc..n all the very best

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