PassMark AntiVirus Performance Benchmarks Edition 3, 2011.

[LeetPirate]

Detection rates aside, these benchmarks are to give you an idea of which security products slow your computer down. Remember to not just look at the final scores because they take things like installation time into consideration which is not really a big deal for most people. View the individual test results because certain benchmarks may be of greater importance to different people. For example I care more about browser load time, network throughput, and file IO operations.

Download PassMark Consumer Security Products Performance Benchmarks (Edition 3, 2011).

Please note that these benchmarks are independently conducted for Symantec so that's why their stuff is highlighted in yellow, not for any other reason.

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[kallejosef]

avast! is doing really good. I like avast!

[nemanja065]

I think that ESET has the best performance! If not, I don't see who could threaten him! :D

[Dark Lord]

Nice :rolleyes: