The virus can do anything from the theft of your hard disk space, to accessing your private data and draining your CPU. There are numerous anti-virus programs available to guard your gadgets from these problems. The most important thing to do is select one that is not likely to have an impact on system performance. All of our antivirus software has been tested against this. The results depend on how long it takes each application to complete an operation. For example, Kaspersky Security Cloud Free had an impact on the background of 6.6% when it was running an entire scan. ESET had a slightly higher impact of 12%.
Avira is a German-based company. Avira is a reputable company in our tests and consistently scores above 90% in all three categories: Protection, Performance and Usability (False Positives). The interface is user friendly and provides a wide range of features, including a smart firewall as well as a variety of privacy tools. Avira subscriptions are billed monthly rather than for a set time period of 1-3 years. This makes it simpler to cancel your subscription or change the terms at anytime.
A fairly new name in our tests, Essentware – which was previously known as PCKeeper uses the Avira engine underneath and generally scores pretty well across the all the tests. Its performance and UI are both easy to use, but there are a few issues with stability which included scan jobs freezing up – have lowered the rating. However, the detection was satisfactory and a flawless run through the certification sets earned it a VB100 award.