2012 Consumer Security Products Performance Benchmarks (Edition 2) Antivirus and Internet Security Windows 7 November 2011 Document: 2012 Consumer Security Products Performance Benchmarks (Edition 2) Authors: M. Baquiran, D. Wren Company: PassMark Software Date: 14 November 2011 Edition: 2 File: antivirus_12-performance-testing-ed2.docx Consumer Internet Security and Antivirus Solutions PassMark Software Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ......................................................................................................................................... 2 REVISION HISTORY ............................................................................................................................................ 4 REFERENCES ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................................... 5 OVERALL SCORE ................................................................................................................................................ 6 PRODUCTS AND VERSIONS ............................................................................................................................... 8 INTERNET SECURITY SOFTWARE .................................................................................................................................. 8 ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE .............................................................................................................................................. 8 PERFORMANCE METRICS SUMMARY ................................................................................................................ 9 INTERNET SECURITY SOFTWARE – TEST RESULTS ............................................................................................ 12 BENCHMARK 1 – BOOT TIME ................................................................................................................................... 12 BENCHMARK 2 – SCAN TIME ................................................................................................................................... 13 BENCHMARK 3 – USER INTERFACE LAUNCH TIME ........................................................................................................ 14 BENCHMARK 4 – MEMORY USAGE DURING SYSTEM IDLE .............................................................................................. 15 BENCHMARK 5 – BROWSE TIME ............................................................................................................................... 16 BENCHMARK 6 – INTERNET EXPLORER LAUNCH TIME ................................................................................................... 17 BENCHMARK 7 – INSTALLATION TIME ........................................................................................................................ 18 BENCHMARK 8 – INSTALLATION SIZE ......................................................................................................................... 19 BENCHMARK 9 – REGISTRY KEYS ADDED .................................................................................................................... 20 BENCHMARK 10 – FILE COPY, MOVE AND DELETE ....................................................................................................... 21 BENCHMARK 11 – INSTALLATION OF THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS ................................................................................... 22 BENCHMARK 12 – NETWORK THROUGHPUT ............................................................................................................... 23 BENCHMARK 13 – FILE FORMAT CONVERSION ............................................................................................................ 24 BENCHMARK 14 – FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION ........................................................................................ 25 BENCHMARK 15 – FILE WRITE, OPEN AND CLOSE ........................................................................................................ 26 BENCHMARK 16 – PE SCAN TIME ............................................................................................................................. 27 BENCHMARK 17 – FILE COPY DISK TO DISK ................................................................................................................ 28 ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE – TEST RESULTS .......................................................................................................... 29 BENCHMARK 1 – BOOT TIME ................................................................................................................................... 29 BENCHMARK 2 – SCAN TIME ................................................................................................................................... 30 BENCHMARK 3 – USER INTERFACE LAUNCH TIME ........................................................................................................ 31 BENCHMARK 4 – MEMORY USAGE DURING SYSTEM IDLE .............................................................................................. 32 BENCHMARK 5 – BROWSE TIME ............................................................................................................................... 33 BENCHMARK 6 – INTERNET EXPLORER LAUNCH TIME ................................................................................................... 34 BENCHMARK 7 – INSTALLATION TIME ........................................................................................................................ 35 BENCHMARK 8 – INSTALLATION SIZE ......................................................................................................................... 36 BENCHMARK 9 – REGISTRY KEYS ADDED .................................................................................................................... 37 BENCHMARK 10 – FILE COPY, MOVE AND DELETE ....................................................................................................... 38 BENCHMARK 11 – INSTALLATION OF THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS ................................................................................... 39 BENCHMARK 12 – NETWORK THROUGHPUT ............................................................................................................... 40 Performance Benchmark Page 2 of 57 Edition 2 15 November 2011 Consumer Internet Security and Antivirus Solutions PassMark Software BENCHMARK 13 – FILE FORMAT CONVERSION ............................................................................................................ 41 BENCHMARK 14 – FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION ........................................................................................ 42 BENCHMARK 15 – FILE WRITE, OPEN AND CLOSE ........................................................................................................ 43 BENCHMARK 16 – PE SCAN TIME ............................................................................................................................. 44 BENCHMARK 17 – FILE COPY DISK TO DISK ................................................................................................................ 45 DISCLAIMER AND DISCLOSURE ....................................................................................................................... 46 CONTACT DETAILS .......................................................................................................................................... 46 APPENDIX 1 – TEST ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................................ 47 APPENDIX 2 – METHODOLOGY DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................. 48 Performance Benchmark Page 3 of 57 Edition 2 15 November 2011 Consumer Internet Security and Antivirus Solutions PassMark Software Revision History Rev Revision History Date Initial version of this report, includes new results for Norton Internet Security 2012, G Data Internet Security 2012, Kaspersky Internet Security 2011, Panda Internet Security Edition 1 11 August 2011 2012, Avast! Internet Security 6, Norton AntiVirus 2012, G Data AntiVirus 2012, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012, Panda Antivirus 2012 and Avast! Pro Antivirus 6. Added results for 7 additional Internet Security products and 7 additional Antivirus Edition 2 14 November 2011 products. For more details on these products, see Products and Versions. References Ref # Document Author Date O. Warner, 1 What Really Slows Windows Down (URL) 2001-2009 The PC Spy Performance Benchmark Page 4 of 57 Edition 2 15 November 2011 Consumer Internet Security and Antivirus Solutions PassMark Software Executive Summary PassMark Software® conducted objective performance testing on twelve (12) Internet Security software products and twelve (12) AntiVirus software products on Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (64-bit) SP1 between April 2011 and November 2011. This report presents our results and findings as a result of performance benchmark testing conducted for these consumer security products. Subsequent editions of this report will include new products released for 2012 as they are made available. For more details on which versions were tested, please see the section “Products and Versions”. Testing was performed on all products using seventeen