Fastest PC security software revealed by PassMark

Which brand would you trust the most with your computer security?

  • Norton

    Votes: 6 5.2%

  • ESET

    Votes: 20 17.4%

  • Avast

    Votes: 15 13.0%

  • McCafee

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Trend Micro

    Votes: 4 3.5%

  • BitDefender

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Kaspersky

    Votes: 12 10.4%

  • AVG

    Votes: 5 4.3%

  • Microsoft

    Votes: 38 33.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 13 11.3%
  • Total voters
    115
VioAdmin said:
lol +1.

Avast is the best, I have been using it for some years now on all my window based computers and I haven't looked back since! No virus gets passed that thing I tell ya.
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I second that.

I figured Avast was quick though, as it hardly stalls a slower pc from what i have noticed.

I healed a technophobe's 8 year old pc on XP that took 5 mins to boot into windows.

Found 134 viruses/worms and not a trace of a virus since.

I never even had to reinstall XP.

Been a Avast free user for 5 years now and will never look back....
 
"In a disclosure statement in the recently released report, PassMark stated that Symantec funded the production of the report and supplied some of the test scripts."

"Jan Vermeulen is a guest of Symantec in London."

Can this be objective ?
 
keru said:
"In a disclosure statement in the recently released report, PassMark stated that Symantec funded the production of the report and supplied some of the test scripts."

"Jan Vermeulen is a guest of Symantec in London."

Can this be objective ?
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No.
 
Complete Bull**** report. A report about speed and a Mcafee product makes it onto the list! HA HA!
 
^^^ +1

norton is a virus...

mcafee is the biggest pile of **** ever
 
Antonf said:
By chance Norton gained top scores...

@RPM: State up front when you publish advertorials. This website, and your credibility, is worth a hell of a lot more than you might think.
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Well said. The first thing I thought was how can a credible news site like MyBroadband publish this.
 
pkid said:
That is strange. Norton 360 Version 5 is only using 20 megs of RAM at the moment and yet my computer is running fast and beautifully.

Norton products were rubbish a few years ago but the 2010 and 2011 products have been superb.
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Nod32 (just anti-virus) using 2.6 MB of RAM.
 
Antonf said:
By chance Norton gained top scores...

@RPM: State up front when you publish advertorials. This website, and your credibility, is worth a hell of a lot more than you might think.
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+1000000!
 
Antonf said:
By chance Norton gained top scores...

@RPM: State up front when you publish advertorials. This website, and your credibility, is worth a hell of a lot more than you might think.
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This is not an advertorial. Just look at the comments! If anything, it's bad marketing for Norton. The article simply states the (skewed) results of a benchmark.

EDIT: At second thought, it might be misleading to the uninformed.
 
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pkid said:
That is strange. Norton 360 Version 5 is only using 20 megs of RAM at the moment and yet my computer is running fast and beautifully.
Norton products were rubbish a few years ago but the 2010 and 2011 products have been superb.
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perhaps. problem is most people here end up fixing their family and friends' computers.
invariably these are a few years old and have ground to a halt.
typically you have to uninstall norton os just to get basic functionality restored to windows.
 
Voted Eset
Used NOD32 for years in our co & at home.
Now use Smart Security 4

The only ones that comes close are Kaspersky & MS.
 
murraybiscuit said:
perhaps. problem is most people here end up fixing their family and friends' computers.
invariably these are a few years old and have ground to a halt.
typically you have to uninstall norton os just to get basic functionality restored to windows.
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Fair point. Anything older than Norton 2009 is unusable in my experience. Even Norton 2010 feels a little slow compared to the 2011 products. I just get annoyed when people have had bad experiences with older versions of the software and then make up their minds for eternity. Symantec have actually done some good work and I think that they should get some recognition for it.

NOD using 2.6 megs of RAM is great. I am guessing the anti virus only doesn't have the backup, firewall and tune up features that Norton 360 does? My point was that 20 megs of RAM is not bad for a security product. Definitely not using all my 4 gigs of RAM. I think that I can spare 20 megs of RAM :)
 
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