In addition, the manufacturers Avira, F-Secure, Kaspersky and Symantec responded to the question as to whether their overhead was greater for client care under XP than for other systems.
You can review the entire list in the News section at AV-TEST: The End Is Nigh for Windows XP: These Anti-Virus Software Products Will Continue to Protect XP after the End of Support. Others already even indicated the year 20. Most of the vendors want to provide support at least up to January 2016. What is the future of security solutions under XP?ĪV-TEST asked several manufacturers how long they would continue to support Windows XP. In the test category of usability, all security solutions had to connect to 500 clean websites, were not allowed to block anything during over 40 program installations and were tasked to scan nearly 450,000 clean files without a false positive.Īll the solutions, both in the private and business category, achieved good scores and received 5 out of a maximum of 6 points for this. All the other solutions did a good job of protecting, but they require more system resources to do so. While the solutions from Avira, F-Secure, Kingsoft, Symantec and Microworld also deliver top performance in terms of protection, they require a remarkable share of system resources, however.Īmong the business solutions with top scores in the Protection category, only Trend Micro and Bitdefender earned 5.5 out of 6 points in the Performance category. For desktop security suites, only the packages from Bitdefender, Kaspersky Lab and Panda put practically no strain on the test systems. Some of the manufacturers with a maximum point score in protection command a decent share of system resources for their good results - while others do not. Often a remarkably heavy system load under XP In the business suite category, the protection result is even better as a percentage: 7 solutions achieve the maximum 6 points, one solution scored 5.5 and Microsoft 0 points. Only Ahnlab and Microsoft each scored a mere 0.5 points.
While the packages in the real world testing were required to detect and liquidate some 160 brand-new specimens of malicious code, the AV-TEST reference set included an additional ambuscade of 24,000 known malware threats.Īmong the desktop solutions, 13 of the 23 products achieved the highest point score of 6 in the Protection category! An additional 8 packages achieved 4 to 5.5 points.
The most difficult test regimen for all security packages is the detection of malware. The additional results range from a solid 16.5 to 15.5 out of a possible 18 points. Trend Micro scored 17.5 points, followed by Bitdefender, Kaspersky Lab and McAfee with 17 points each. The three best results were achieved by Bitdefender, Kaspersky Lab and Panda Cloud Free.Īmong the 9 corporate solutions tested, the final result was also good. That is excellent performance for more than half the participants. Of the 23 tested Internet security suites, 3 achieved the maximum point score 18 and an additional 9 between 16 and 17.5 points. The test result indicates that the suites and the network solutions by and large do an excellent job. Because these holes will no longer be plugged by any Windows updates, the security solution has to get the job done. The latest intruders try to directly exploit known or only recently discovered vulnerabilities in Windows. Yes, Windows can still be reliably protected!