Protection does not stop improving, despite the fact that new threats and vulnerabilities do not stop appearing in the operating systems and devices that we use every day. In the last test, the installation of frequently used applications has been 43% slower, compared to 20% of the rest of the industry, hence it has dropped to 5.5 instead of having a 6, despite the fact that in the rest of the figures it is even better than the rest of the industry, such as a slowdown when running common apps or when installing them by first time.īeyond that, what this new test shows is that it is increasingly difficult to make mistakes when choosing an antivirus. In the case of Windows Defender, curiously, it drops to 5.5 in performance after more than a year getting 6. Windows Defender doesn’t get 18 points narrowly Protection against zero-day vulnerabilities is 99.7% on average in the industry, while ESET reached only 98.6%, hence the lower score this month.
Microworld eScan Internet Security SuiteĮveryone else gets a 6 in protection, except ESET which stays this month at 5.5.The four antiviruses that do not obtain the Top Product certification are:
