Benchmarking Windows 7 with anti-virus software

How the testing was done: After each software was installed, one reboot, let them make their scans, reboot, waited again, another reboot and then started everything. All of them were installed with default settings therefore the number can be higher or lower depending on different tweaks.

Since most of the tests were about the same I pointed out only two of them which differentiate clearly what is means to have one of them on your computer.

So here we go:

1.1 Boot-up time1: 0 min 42 sec 17;
Boot-up time2: 0 min 39 sec 23;
Boot-up time3: 0 min 36 sec 70;
Boot-up average:

1.2 Resources and processes in idle mode: 35 processes 466mb ram ~22%



With Eset Nod32 version 4 (29.9 mb)

2.1 Boot-up time1: 0 min 46 sec 50;
Boot-up time2: 0 min 43 sec 73;
Boot-up time3: 0 min 44 sec 13;

2.2 Resources and processes after boot: 37 processes 521mb ram ~ 25%



With Kaspersky Antivirus 8.0 technical preview for Win 7 (53.2mb)


3.1 Boot-up time1: 0 min 48 sec 18 ;
Boot-up time2: 0 min 45 sec 75;
Boot-up time3: 0 min 44 sec 23;

3.2 Resources and processes in idle mode: 41 processes 575mb ram ~28%


With AVG Anti-Virus 8.5 for Win 7(71.1 mb):

4.1 Boot-up time1: 1 min 11 sec 33;
Boot-up time2: 1 min 01 sec 96;
Boot-up time3: 0 min 54 sec 90;

4.2 Resources and processes after boot: 42 processes 604mb ~ 29%


To sum up:






I must admit that the result for AVG are a bit strange and I will try to have a retesting.

From another point of view the first thing that can be noticed is how superfetch really works. For the rest... I leave it up to you.

V