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Slide 1: PassMark SOFTWARE Antivirus, Internet Security and Total Security Products Performance Benchmarking (2009) Vista/Dual Core Hardware February 2009 Document: Authors: Company: Date: Edition: File: Antivirus, Internet Security and Total Security Performance Benchmarking Karen Lai, David Wren PassMark Software Pty Ltd (www.passmark.com) 06/Feb/09 Edition 3 antivirus_09-performance-testing-ed3.docx www.passmark.com PassMark Software Pty. Ltd. ACN: 099 321 392 Slide 2: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................................................................... 2 REVISION HISTORY ........................................................................................................................... 5 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................... 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................... 6 OVERALL RANKING BY PRODUCT CATEGORY ....................................................................... 7 INTERNET SECURITY (IS) PRODUCTS..................................................................................................... 7 ANTIVIRUS (AV) PRODUCTS ................................................................................................................. 7 PRODUCTS TESTED ........................................................................................................................... 8 INTERNET SECURITY (IS) PRODUCTS..................................................................................................... 8 ANTIVIRUS (AV) PRODUCTS ................................................................................................................. 8 ORIGINAL SET OF METRICS – CRITERIA MEASURED ........................................................... 9 BENCHMARK 1 – BOOT TIME................................................................................................................. 9 BENCHMARK 2 – SCAN SPEED ............................................................................................................... 9 BENCHMARK 3 – USER INTERFACE LAUNCH SPEED .............................................................................. 9 BENCHMARK 4 – HTTP DOWNLOAD ..................................................................................................... 9 BENCHMARK 5 – MEMORY UTILIZATION .............................................................................................. 9 BENCHMARK 6 – IE LAUNCH SPEED ...................................................................................................... 9 NEW SET OF METRICS – CRITERIA MEASURED .................................................................... 10 BENCHMARK 7 – INSTALLATION TIME ................................................................................................ 10 BENCHMARK 8 – INSTALLATION SIZE ................................................................................................. 10 BENCHMARK 9 – REGISTRY KEY COUNT............................................................................................. 10 BENCHMARK 10 – FILE COPY, MOVE AND DELETE ............................................................................. 10 BENCHMARK 11 – INSTALLING THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS ............................................................. 10 BENCHMARK 12 – BINARY FILE DOWNLOAD SPEED ........................................................................... 10 BENCHMARK 13 – FILE FORMAT CONVERSION ................................................................................... 11 BENCHMARK 14 – FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION............................................................. 11 BENCHMARK 15 – FILE WRITE, OPEN AND CLOSE .............................................................................. 11 TEST RESULTS – INTERNET SECURITY (IS) PRODUCTS ...................................................... 12 BENCHMARK 1 – BOOT TIME............................................................................................................... 12 BENCHMARK 2 – SCAN SPEED ............................................................................................................. 12 BENCHMARK 3A – INITIAL UI LAUNCH TIME ...................................................................................... 13 BENCHMARK 3B – SUBSEQUENT UI LAUNCH TIME ............................................................................. 13 BENCHMARK 4 – MEMORY UTILIZATION ............................................................................................ 14 BENCHMARK 5 – HTTP DOWNLOAD ................................................................................................... 14 BENCHMARK 6A – INITIAL IE LAUNCH TIME ...................................................................................... 15 BENCHMARK 6B – SUBSEQUENT IE LAUNCH TIME ............................................................................. 15 BENCHMARK 7 – INSTALLATION TIME ................................................................................................ 16 BENCHMARK 8 – INSTALLATION SIZE ................................................................................................. 16 BENCHMARK 9 – REGISTRY KEY COUNT............................................................................................. 17 BENCHMARK 10 – FILE COPY, MOVE AND DELETE ............................................................................. 17 BENCHMARK 11 – INSTALLATION OF THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS .................................................... 18 BENCHMARK 12 – BINARY FILE DOWNLOAD SPEED ........................................................................... 18 BENCHMARK 13 – FILE FORMAT CONVERSION ................................................................................... 19 BENCHMARK 14 – FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION............................................................. 19 BENCHMARK 15 – FILE WRITE, OPEN AND CLOSE .............................................................................. 20 TEST RESULTS – ANTIVIRUS (AV) PRODUCTS ........................................................................ 21 BENCHMARK 1 – BOOT TIME............................................................................................................... 21 BENCHMARK 2 – SCAN SPEED ............................................................................................................. 21 BENCHMARK 3A – INITIAL UI LAUNCH TIME ...................................................................................... 22 BENCHMARK 3B – SUBSEQUENT UI LAUNCH TIME ............................................................................. 22 BENCHMARK 4 – MEMORY UTILIZATION ............................................................................................ 23 BENCHMARK 5 – HTTP DOWNLOAD ................................................................................................... 23 BENCHMARK 6A – INITIAL IE LAUNCH TIME ...................................................................................... 24 BENCHMARK 6B – SUBSEQUENT IE LAUNCH TIME ............................................................................. 24 PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 2 of 62 Slide 3: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS BENCHMARK 7 – INSTALLATION TIME ................................................................................................ 25 BENCHMARK 8 – INSTALLATION SIZE ................................................................................................. 25 BENCHMARK 9 – REGISTRY KEY COUNT............................................................................................. 26 BENCHMARK 10 – FILE COPY, MOVE AND DELETE ............................................................................. 26 BENCHMARK 11 – INSTALLATION OF THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS .................................................... 27 BENCHMARK 12 – BINARY FILE DOWNLOAD SPEED ........................................................................... 27 BENCHMARK 13 – FILE FORMAT CONVERSION ................................................................................... 28 BENCHMARK 14 – FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION............................................................. 28 BENCHMARK 15 – FILE WRITE, OPEN AND CLOSE .............................................................................. 29 WHAT THIS REPORT DOESN’T COVER ..................................................................................... 30 DISCLAIMER & DISCLOSURE ....................................................................................................... 31 DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY .................................................................................................................. 31 DISCLOSURE ........................................................................................................................................ 31 TRADEMARKS...................................................................................................................................... 31 CONTACT DETAILS & MORE INFORMATION ......................................................................... 31 DOWNLOAD LINK ................................................................................................................................ 31 APPENDIX 1 – TEST METHOD – HOW DID WE CONDUCT THESE TESTS? ....................... 32 COMMON METHODOLOGY ................................................................................................................... 32 BENCHMARK 1 – BOOT TIME............................................................................................................... 32 BENCHMARK 2 – TOTAL SCAN SPEED ................................................................................................. 32 BENCHMARK 3 – UI LAUNCH SPEED ................................................................................................... 33 BENCHMARK 4 – MEMORY UTILIZATION ............................................................................................ 33 BENCHMARK 5 – HTTP DOWNLOAD TEST .......................................................................................... 33 BENCHMARK 6 – IE LAUNCH SPEED.................................................................................................... 34 BENCHMARK 7 – INSTALLATION TIME ................................................................................................ 34 BENCHMARK 8 – INSTALLATION SIZE ................................................................................................. 34 BENCHMARK 9 – REGISTRY KEY COUNT............................................................................................. 35 BENCHMARKS 10-15 – REAL-TIME PERFORMANCE ............................................................................. 35 BENCHMARKS 10 – FILE COPY, MOVE AND DELETE ........................................................................... 35 BENCHMARK 11 – THIRD PARTY PROGRAM INSTALLATION ................................................................ 36 BENCHMARK 12 – BINARY FILE DOWNLOAD SPEED ........................................................................... 37 BENCHMARK 13 – FILE FORMAT CONVERSION (MP3  WAV, MP3  WMA) ................................ 37 BENCHMARK 14 – FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION............................................................. 37 BENCHMARK 15 – FILE WRITE, OPEN AND CLOSE .............................................................................. 38 APPENDIX 2 – TEST ENVIRONMENT........................................................................................... 39 APPENDIX 3A – INTERNET SECURITY RAW RESULTS.......................................................... 40 BOOT TIME .......................................................................................................................................... 40 SCAN SPEED ........................................................................................................................................ 40 INITIAL UI LAUNCH SPEED.................................................................................................................. 41 SUBSEQUENT UI LAUNCH SPEED ........................................................................................................ 41 MEMORY UTILIZATION ....................................................................................................................... 42 HTTP DOWNLOAD .............................................................................................................................. 42 INITIAL IE LAUNCH SPEED .................................................................................................................. 43 SUBSEQUENT IE LAUNCH SPEED ......................................................................................................... 43 INSTALLATION TIME............................................................................................................................ 44 INSTALLATION SIZE ............................................................................................................................. 44 REGISTRY KEY COUNT ........................................................................................................................ 45 FILE COPY, MOVE AND DELETE .......................................................................................................... 45 THIRD PARTY PROGRAM INSTALLATION ............................................................................................. 46 BINARY DOWNLOAD SPEED ................................................................................................................ 46 FILE FORMAT CONVERSION................................................................................................................. 47 FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION .......................................................................................... 47 FILE WRITE, OPEN AND CLOSE ........................................................................................................... 48 APPENDIX 3B – ANTIVIRUS RAW RESULTS .............................................................................. 49 BOOT TIME .......................................................................................................................................... 49 SCAN SPEED ........................................................................................................................................ 49 INITIAL UI LAUNCH SPEED.................................................................................................................. 50 PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 3 of 62 Slide 4: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS SUBSEQUENT UI LAUNCH SPEED ........................................................................................................ 50 MEMORY UTILIZATION ....................................................................................................................... 51 HTTP DOWNLOAD .............................................................................................................................. 51 INITIAL IE LAUNCH SPEED .................................................................................................................. 52 SUBSEQUENT IE LAUNCH SPEED ......................................................................................................... 52 INSTALLATION TIME............................................................................................................................ 53 INSTALLATION SIZE ............................................................................................................................. 53 REGISTRY KEY COUNT ........................................................................................................................ 54 FILE COPY, MOVE AND DELETE .......................................................................................................... 54 THIRD PARTY PROGRAM INSTALLATION ............................................................................................. 55 BINARY DOWNLOAD SPEED ................................................................................................................ 55 FILE FORMAT CONVERSION................................................................................................................. 56 FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION .......................................................................................... 56 FILE WRITE, OPEN AND CLOSE ........................................................................................................... 57 APPENDIX 3C – TOTAL SECURITY RAW RESULTS ................................................................ 58 BOOT TIME .......................................................................................................................................... 58 SCAN SPEED ........................................................................................................................................ 58 INITIAL UI LAUNCH SPEED.................................................................................................................. 58 SUBSEQUENT UI LAUNCH SPEED ........................................................................................................ 59 MEMORY UTILIZATION ....................................................................................................................... 59 HTTP DOWNLOAD .............................................................................................................................. 59 INITIAL IE LAUNCH SPEED .................................................................................................................. 59 SUBSEQUENT IE LAUNCH SPEED ......................................................................................................... 60 INSTALLATION TIME............................................................................................................................ 60 INSTALLATION SIZE ............................................................................................................................. 60 REGISTRY KEY COUNT ........................................................................................................................ 60 FILE COPY, MOVE AND DELETE .......................................................................................................... 61 THIRD PARTY PROGRAM INSTALLATION ............................................................................................. 61 BINARY DOWNLOAD SPEED ................................................................................................................ 61 FILE FORMAT CONVERSION................................................................................................................. 61 FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION .......................................................................................... 62 FILE WRITE, OPEN AND CLOSE ........................................................................................................... 62 PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 4 of 62 Slide 5: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS REVISION HISTORY Revision Revision History Initial version of this document. Major items missing from this draft are: the high level result summary, some raw results and some of the detailed descriptions of the metrics used. Added missing raw results, methodology descriptions of the metrics used and notes about results. Corrected minor cut/paste errors, some refinement of wording. Missing high level results summary. First public release of this document. Added Overall Ranking of Products by Category and updated graphs/raw results. Corrected minor formatting errors. Follow-up release of this report. Addition of results for several newly released 2009 AV products; and exclusion of results for products which have been superseded by newer releases. Also includes previously omitted HTTP download test as full test results were not available at the public release of Edition 1. New methodology used to test the Installation Size of all products. The new methodology produces more reproducible results by removing as many Operating System and disc space random variables as possible. The results are revised in accordance to this new testing methodology. Date Draft 1 29 August 2008 Draft 2 2 September 2008 Edition 1 8 September 2008 Edition 2 11 November 2008 Edition 3 6 February 2009 REFERENCES Ref # 1 Document Antivirus Performance Report for Windows Vista (Edition 2) What Really Slows Windows Down Antivirus, Internet Security and Total Security Products Performance Benchmarking (2009) (Edition 1) Author D. Wren and M. Fryer, PassMark Software O. Warner, The PC Spy K. Lai and D. Wren, PassMark Software Date 6 June 2008 2 2001-2008 3 September 2008 PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 5 of 62 Slide 6: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Executive Summary PassMark has executed performance benchmark testing on forty-seven Antivirus, Internet Security and Total Security products from various vendors between July 2008 and October 2008. The results within this document are intended as an update on previous test results collected by PassMark for Symantec in March 2008 (please see Reference #1: Antivirus Performance Report for Windows Vista, Edition 2) and July-August 2008 (Please see Reference #3: Antivirus, Internet Security and Total Security Products Performance Benchmarking (2009) (Edition 1)) on products released in 2008. The second edition of this report focuses on results obtained from recently released products for 2009. PassMark has conducted performance benchmark testing on new versions of products which were included in the previous edition of this report, as well as a few additional products which have not previously been tested. Where we have executed benchmark testing on a newer version of a product, the result for the newer version will supersede our results for the outdated version. PassMark will continue to execute performance benchmark testing on selected new versions of Antivirus, Internet Security and Total Security products in January 2009. A follow-up report comparing the findings in this report with our new results will be released next year. Testing was performed on all products using seventeen performance metrics. These performance metrics are as follows:                Boot time. Total Scan speed. UI launch speed (initial and subsequent). Memory utilization. HTTP download test. IE launch speed (initial and subsequent). Installation Size. Installation Time. Registry Key Count. Copying, moving and deleting different types of common files. Installing third party applications. Downloading binary files from websites. File format conversion. File compression and decompression. File write, open and close. No attempt was made to measure the effectiveness of threat detection, as this aspect of the products is covered by other industry benchmarks such as Virus Bulletin (http://www.virusbtn.com) and AV Comparatives (http://www.av-comparatives.org). This report is solely focused on measuring how responsive the applications are and how extensively the applications utilize the resources of the machine. Testing was performed on a dual core Vista machine; the same machine used in previous testing. The products we have tested can be divided into three categories:   Antivirus (AV) products are defined in this report as products which are primarily focused on detecting and remediating viruses and spyware. Internet Security (IS) products provides all the virus and spyware removal features of an AV, as well as additional functions to provide greater Internet protection. These features may include protection against phishing, root kit detection, firewalls and scanning of web pages and HTTP data. Total Security (TS) products provide data migration and backup features on top of all security features common to IS products.  PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 6 of 62 Slide 7: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Overall Ranking by Product Category In the following tables, the products have been ranked by their overall score in comparison to other products from that category. The Best Possible Score represents a category‟s maximum score, i.e. the score of a hypothetical product which has ranked first in every test in that category. This figure varies between categories because different amounts of products were tested for each category, for example, in the Internet Security category, the best possible score is 204 (12 products x 17 tests). Internet Security (IS) Products Internet Security Products Product Name Norton Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 G-Data Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Best Possible Score Score 156 152 140 116 115 115 104 96 89 91 77 74 204 AntiVirus (AV) Products AntiVirus Products Product Name ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Norton Antivirus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus G-Data Antivirus 2009 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Best Possible Score Score 137 131 127 113 113 102 97 94 91 63 54 187 PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 7 of 62 Slide 8: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Products Tested This report compares our results for the following versions of products: Internet Security (IS) Products Manufacturer Symantec Corporation Kaspersky Labs McAfee Inc AVG Technologies Trend Micro Ltd. Trend Micro Ltd G Data Software ESET F-Secure Panda Security CheckPoint SourceNext Corp. Product Name Norton Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 G Data Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Product Version 16.0.0.125 8.0.0.357 9.0.286 8.0.138 17.0.1179 17.0.1262 19.0.0.49 3.0.650.0 9.00.148 14.00.00 8.0.020.000 9.5.0295 Date Tested Sep 08 Jul 08 Oct 08 Jul 08 Oct 08 Oct 08 Oct 08 Aug 08 Oct 08 Oct 08 Oct 08 Oct 08 Test type Full Full Full Full Full Full Full Incremental Full Full Full Full Antivirus (AV) Products Manufacturer Symantec Corporation Kaspersky Labs McAfee Inc. AVG Technologies Trend Micro Ltd. G Data Software ESET Avira gmbH ALWIL Software Beijing Rising Int. Software Co. Sunbelt Software Product Name Norton Antivirus 2009 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Rising Security Antivirus VIPRE Antivirus and Antispyware Product Version 16.0.0.125 8.0.0.357 9.0.286 8.138.1332 17.0.1179 19.0.0.49 3.0.667.0 8.1.0.326 4.8.1229 20.55.11 3.1.2315 Date Tested Sep 08 Jul 08 Oct 08 Jul 08 Oct 08 Oct 08 Jul 08 Jul 08 Jul 08 Jul 08 Oct 08 Test type Full Full Full Full Full Full Full Full Full Full Full PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 8 of 62 Slide 9: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Original Set of Metrics – Criteria Measured This set of metrics was used in the original testing. These metrics were selected because they provided an indication of the product‟s performance in a number of key areas which impacted on the user experience. All metrics are objective and can be replicated and reproduced by third parties if required. Please see ‘Appendix 1 – Test method – How did we conduct these tests?’ for detailed test methodologies. Benchmark 1 – Boot Time The time taken for the machine to boot was measured. It is typical for antiviral or security suite applications to be launched at Windows start-up. This typically adds some amount of time to the boot time for the machine. Our aim was to measure the additional time added to the boot process as a result of installing these applications. Shorter boot times indicate that the application has less impact on the normal operation of the machine. Benchmark 2 – Scan Speed All these products have functionality designed to detect viruses and various other forms of malware by scanning files on the system. This test measured the amount of time required to scan a typical set of clean files. The sample set used against all products was 1.2GB worth of data, made up of typical Window‟s files from the Windows system folder and Office files. Benchmark 3 – User Interface Launch Speed The time taken to start the User Interface of the product was measured. This is one measure of how responsive an application appears to a user. Both the initial launch time and the subsequent launch times, to allow for caching effects, were measured. For simplicity only the more critical initial times are used in this report. Benchmark 4 – HTTP Download Antivirus products commonly scan data for malware as it is downloaded from the local network or internet. This test measures what impact the product has on HTTP downloads across a local network. A Gigabit NIC and switch were used in this test. Benchmark 5 – Memory Utilization The amount of RAM used by the product was measured while the machine and product were in an idle state, running in the background. All processes used by the application were identified and the total RAM usage calculated. The less RAM an application uses while resident in the background the better. Idle state measurements were made, as opposed to RAM used while actively scanning, because it is easier to measure the stable idle state and the aim was to see what resources were being used on a permanent basis. Benchmark 6 – IE launch Speed The time taken to start the user interface of Internet Explorer was measured. This is one measure of how the product impacts on the responsiveness of the system. Both the initial launch time and the subsequent launch times, to allow for caching effects, were measured. For simplicity only the more critical initial times are used in this report. PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 9 of 62 Slide 10: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS New Set of Metrics – Criteria Measured Introduced in the first edition of this report, this additional set of metrics was selected to supplement and extend the initial set of metrics in testing to a user‟s experience of a software product. These new benchmarks include installation speed, the amount of installation space a product will occupy on a user‟s hard drive and the amount of keys added to the Registry after installation. Benchmarks 9 through to 14 comprise of a script-based “performance obstacle course”. Each of these benchmarks were designed to provide performance results in the context of the end user experience by mimicking performance of tasks that end users may perform on a real-time or daily basis. Please refer to ‘Appendix 1 – Test method – How did we conduct these tests?’ for detailed test methodologies. Benchmark 7 – Installation Time It is important that a user has good first impressions of a product. The speed and ease of the installation process will strongly impact this initial experience. This test measures the minimum Installation Time a product requires to be fully functional and ready for use by the end user. Lower times represent products which are quicker for a user to install. Benchmark 8 – Installation Size In offering new features and functionality to users, software products tend to increase in size with each new release. Although new technologies push the size limits of hard drives each year, the growing disk space requirements of common applications and the increasing popularity of large media files (such as movies, photos and music) ensure that a product's installation size will remain of interest to home users. This metric aims to measure a product‟s total installation size. This metric has been defined as the total disk space consumed by all new files added during a product's installation. Benchmark 9 – Registry Key Count A large registry increases a machine‟s use of resources. This is likely to negatively impact system performance, especially on much older machines. This test measures the amount of keys and values added to registry, after rebooting the test machines, following a successful product installation. Lower numbers mean that a product has had less impact on the registry. Benchmark 10 – File Copy, Move and Delete This metric measured the amount of time required to move, copy and delete a sample set of files. The sample file set contains several types of file formats that a Windows user would encounter in daily use. These formats include documents (e.g. Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDF, Zip files, etc), media formats (e.g. images, movies and music) and system files (e.g. executables, libraries, etc). Benchmark 11 – Installing Third Party Applications This metric measured the amount of time required to install and uninstall third party programs. Benchmark 12 – Binary File Download Speed The metric measured the amount of time required to download a variety of binary files through HTTP. Binary files used in this test include file formats that users would typically download from the web such as images, archives, music files and movie files. PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 10 of 62 Slide 11: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 13 – File Format Conversion This test measures the amount of time required to convert an MP3 file to a WAV and subsequently, convert the same MP3 file to a WMA format. Benchmark 14 – File Compression and Decompression This metric measures the amount of time required to compression and decompression of different types of files. Files formats used in this test included documents, movies and images. Benchmark 15 – File Write, Open and Close This benchmark was derived from Oli Warner‟s File I/O test at http://www.thepcspy.com (please see Reference #2: What Really Slows Windows Down). This metric measures the amount of time required for the system to write a file, then open and close that file. PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 11 of 62 Slide 12: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Test Results – Internet Security (IS) Products In the following charts, we have highlighted the results we obtained for Norton Internet Security 2009 in orange. For ease of comparison, we have also highlighted industry averages in black. Benchmark 1 – Boot Time The following chart compares the average system boot time (from a sample of 15 boots) for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower boot times are considered better performing products in this category. Norton Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Industry Average AVG Internet Security 2008 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 33.74 47.69 Boot Time in Seconds (sec) Benchmark 2 – Scan Speed The following chart compares the average scan time of 6159 files (totaling 982MB) for each Internet Security product we tested. This time is calculated by averaging the initial (Run 1) and subsequent (Runs 2-5) scan times. Products with lower scan times are considered better performing products in this category. Norton Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Industry Average F-Secure Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 0 32.60 163.73 100 200 300 400 500 600 Total Scan Speed in Seconds (sec) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 12 of 62 Slide 13: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 3a – Initial UI Launch Time The following chart compares the average launch times of the User Interface (after rebooting the machine) for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower UI launch times are considered better performing products in this category. ESET Smart Security 2008 Norton Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Industry Average AVG Internet Security 2008 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500 5,000 253.68 1843.37 Initial UI Launch Speed in Milliseconds (ms) Benchmark 3b – Subsequent UI Launch Time The following chart compares the average launch times of the User Interface by restarting the Internet Security application (without rebooting the machine) for each Internet Security product tested. Lower times are better. Products with lower UI launch times are considered better performing products in this category. G-Data Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Industry Average AVG Internet Security 2008 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 268.49 1523.92 Subsequent UI Launch Speed in Milliseconds (ms) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 13 of 62 Slide 14: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 4 – Memory Utilization The following chart compares the average amount of RAM used while idle for each Internet Security product tested. This average is taken from a sample of ten memory snapshots taken at roughly 60 seconds apart after reboot. Products with lower idle RAM usage are considered better performing products in this category. Norton Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Industry Average Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Panda Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 0 6.92 51.09 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Memory Usage in Megabytes (MB) Benchmark 5 – HTTP Download The following chart compares the average time taken over fifteen cycles for the file set to be downloaded through the local area network from the server machine. Products with lower download times are considered better performing products in this category. AVG Internet Security 2008 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Industry Average ESET Smart Security 2008 McAfee Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 7,501 15,731 HTTP Download Time in Milliseconds (ms) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 14 of 62 Slide 15: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 6a – Initial IE Launch Time The following chart compares the average launch times of Internet Explorer after rebooting the machine for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower IE launch times are considered better performing products in this category. F-Secure Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Industry Average AVG Internet Security 2008 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 598.08 994.44 Initial IE Launch Speed in Milliseconds (ms) Benchmark 6b – Subsequent IE Launch Time The following chart compares the average launch times of Internet Explorer after application restart (without rebooting the machine) for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower IE launch times are considered better performing products in this category. ESET Smart Security 2008 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Industry Average Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 496.63 544.33 Subsequent IE Launch Speed in Milliseconds (ms) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 15 of 62 Slide 16: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 7 – Installation Time The following chart compares the minimum installation time it takes for Internet Security products to be fully functional and ready for use by the end user. Products with lower installation times are considered better performing products in this category. Norton Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 AVG Internet Security 2008 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Industry Average Panda Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 0 52.77 209.21 100 200 300 400 500 600 Installation Time in Seconds (sec) Benchmark 8 – Installation Size The following chart compares the installation sizes of Internet Security products. Products with lower installation sizes are considered better performing products in this category. SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 AVG Internet Security 2008 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Industry Average Panda Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 138.24 183.45 Installation size in Megabytes (MB) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 16 of 62 Slide 17: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 9 – Registry Key Count The following chart compares the amount of Registry Keys created during product installation, for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower key counts are considered better performing products in this category. ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 ESET Smart Security 2008 Norton Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Industry Average Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 2,582 4163.17 Number of Registry Keys added after Installation Benchmark 10 – File Copy, Move and Delete The following chart compares the average speed of file copying, moving and deleting for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category. G-Data Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Industry Average Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 63.25 76.79 File Copy, Move and Delete - Time in Seconds (sec) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 17 of 62 Slide 18: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 11 – Installation of Third Party Applications The following chart compares the average speed of installation of third party applications for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category. AVG Internet Security 2008 ESET Smart Security 2008 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Industry Average Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 51.63 58.65 Third Party Program Installation - Time in Seconds (sec) Benchmark 12 – Binary File Download Speed The following chart compares the average speed of HTTP downloads of common file types for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category. Panda Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Industry Average G-Data Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 62.54 67.06 Binary File Download - Time in Seconds (sec) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 18 of 62 Slide 19: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 13 – File Format Conversion The following chart compares the average speed at which files can be converted from one file format to another (MP3  WMA, MP3  WAV) for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category. AVG Internet Security 2008 Norton Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Industry Average SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 16.00 16.20 16.40 16.60 16.80 17.00 17.20 17.40 17.60 17.80 18.00 16.78 17.23 File Format Conversion - Time in Seconds (sec) Benchmark 14 – File Compression and Decompression The following chart compares the average speed at which files can be compressed and decompressed for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category. Norton Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Industry Average McAfee Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 0 10 20 30 33.46 42.70 40 50 60 File Compression and Decompression - Time in Seconds (sec) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 19 of 62 Slide 20: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 15 – File Write, Open and Close The following chart compares the average speed at which a file can be written to the hard drive, then opened and closed, for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category. AVG Internet Security 2008 Panda Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Industry Average Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 51.74 470.54 File Write, Open and Close - Time in Seconds (sec) * F-Secure Internet Security 2009 performed extremely poorly in this category when compared to other products (over 20,618 seconds on average to execute the test). The industry average excludes this result and the chart has been rescaled to emphasize the differences between the remaining products. While SourceNext VirusSecurity ZERO 2009 has not been excluded from the industry average, it has also performed relatively poorly in this category when compared to other products (taking 2,215 seconds on average to execute the test). PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 20 of 62 Slide 21: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Test Results – Antivirus (AV) Products In the following charts, we have highlighted the results we obtained for Norton Antivirus 2009 in orange. For ease of comparison, we have also highlighted industry averages in black. Benchmark 1 – Boot Time The following chart compares the average system boot time (from a sample of 15 boots) for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower boot times are considered better performing products in this category. ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Norton Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Industry Average Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Rising Security Antivirus 0 10 20 30 40 50 34.26 40.12 Boot Time in Seconds (sec) Benchmark 2 – Scan Speed The following chart compares the average scan time of 6159 files (totaling 982MB) for each Internet Security product we tested. This time is calculated by averaging the initial (Run 1) and subsequent (Runs 2-5) scan times. Products with lower scan times are considered better performing products in this category. Norton Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Industry Average Avast! Antivirus 4.8 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus AVG Free AV&AS 2008 0 32.20 115.72 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 Total Scan Speed in Seconds (sec) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 21 of 62 Slide 22: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 3a – Initial UI Launch Time The following chart compares the average launch times of the User Interface (after rebooting the machine) for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower UI launch times are considered better performing products in this category. ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Norton Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Industry Average AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 167.70 1,217.03 Initial UI Launch Speed in Milliseconds (ms) Benchmark 3b – Subsequent UI Launch Time The following chart compares the average launch times of the User Interface by restarting the Internet Security application (without rebooting the machine) for each Internet Security product tested. Lower times are better. Products with lower UI launch times are considered better performing products in this category. ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Industry Average AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 217.11 1,146.97 Subsequent UI Launch Speed in Milliseconds (ms) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 22 of 62 Slide 23: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 4 – Memory Utilization The following chart compares the average amount of RAM used while idle for each Internet Security product tested. This average is taken from a sample of ten memory snapshots taken at roughly 60 seconds apart after reboot. Products with lower idle RAM usage are considered better performing products in this category. Norton Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Rising Security Antivirus Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Industry Average McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 G-Data Antivirus 2009 0 5.38 36.12 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Idle Memory Usage in Megabytes (MB) Benchmark 5 – HTTP Download The following chart compares the average time taken over fifteen cycles for the file set to be downloaded through the local area network from the server machine. Products with lower download times are considered better performing products in this category. AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Norton Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Industry Average Rising Security Antivirus McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 7,022 17,513 HTTP Download Time in Milliseconds (ms) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 23 of 62 Slide 24: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 6a – Initial IE Launch Time The following chart compares the average launch times of Internet Explorer after rebooting the machine for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower IE launch times are considered better performing products in this category. Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Norton Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Industry Average McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus AVG Free AV&AS 2008 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 1,400 1,600 494.04 713.81 Initial IE Launch Speed in Milliseconds (ms) Benchmark 6b – Subsequent IE Launch Time The following chart compares the average launch times of Internet Explorer after application restart (without rebooting the machine) for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower IE launch times are considered better performing products in this category. Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Rising Security Antivirus ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Industry Average Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 442 404 Subsequent IE Launch Speed in Milliseconds (ms) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 24 of 62 Slide 25: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 7 – Installation Time The following chart compares the minimum installation time it takes for Internet Security products to be fully functional and ready for use by the end user. Products with lower installation times are considered better performing products in this category. Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Norton Antivirus 2009 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Industry Average Rising Security Antivirus Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 47.27 132.79 Installation Time in Seconds (sec) Benchmark 8 – Installation Size The following chart compares the installation sizes of Internet Security products. Products with lower installation sizes are considered better performing products in this category. ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 Industry Average Rising Security Antivirus Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 116.49 134.31 Installation size in Megabytes (MB) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 25 of 62 Slide 26: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 9 – Registry Key Count The following chart compares the amount of Registry Keys created during product installation, for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower key counts are considered better performing products in this category. Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Rising Security Antivirus Avast! Antivirus 4.8 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Industry Average Norton Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 2,441 2,724 Number of Registry Keys added after Installation Benchmark 10 – File Copy, Move and Delete The following chart compares the average speed of file copying, moving and deleting for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category. Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS G-Data Antivirus 2009 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Industry Average Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 61.74 77.43 File Copy, Move and Delete - Time in Seconds (sec) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 26 of 62 Slide 27: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 11 – Installation of Third Party Applications The following chart compares the average speed of installation of third party applications for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category. Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Rising Security Antivirus ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Norton Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Industry Average McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 47.50 50.29 Third Party Program Installation - Time in Seconds (sec) Benchmark 12 – Binary File Download Speed The following chart compares the average speed of HTTP downloads of common file types for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category. Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS AVG Free AV&AS 2008 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Rising Security Antivirus Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Industry Average McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 61.65 64.04 Binary File Download - Time in Seconds (sec) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 27 of 62 Slide 28: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 13 – File Format Conversion The following chart compares the average speed at which files can be converted from one file format to another (MP3  WMA, MP3  WAV) for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category. AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Norton Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Industry Average Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 16.00 16.50 17.00 17.50 18.00 18.50 16.77 17.14 File Format Conversion - Time in Seconds (sec) Benchmark 14 – File Compression and Decompression The following chart compares the average speed at which files can be compressed and decompressed for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category. AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus Industry Average ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 35.83 41.41 File Compression and Decompression - Time in Seconds (sec) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 28 of 62 Slide 29: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 15 – File Write, Open and Close The following chart compares the average speed at which a file can be written to the hard drive, then opened and closed, for each Internet Security product we tested. Products with lower times are considered better performing products in this category. AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Norton Antivirus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Avast! Antivirus 4.8 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Rising Security Antivirus Industry Average Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1,000 50.33 205.95 File Write, Open and Close - Time in Seconds (sec) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 29 of 62 Slide 30: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS What this report doesn’t cover This report focused on performance measurements such as execution speed and resource usage. No attempt was made to measure the effectiveness of threat detection, as this aspect of the products is covered by other industry benchmarks such as Virus Bulletin (http://www.virusbtn.com) and AV Comparatives (http://www.av-comparatives.org). The metrics used for this report cover a number of key performance areas and are metrics that can be replicated and reproduced by third parties, if required. However there are a number of areas that this report doesn‟t attempt to cover. These areas include:           CPU usage during local file scanning. Impact on multitasking foreground tasks while scanning is in progress in the background. RAM usage during scanning. Impact on shutdown and hibernation times. The time a product takes to uninstall. “Out-of-the-box” virus signature update times. Impact on e-mail receiving and sending times. Speed of the products UI when performing common tasks. Impact on system stability. Testing on 64-bit operating systems with 64-bit hardware. Some of these items are subjective and/or not easily measured, others such as signature update times are likely to change from one week to the next. It might be of interest to revisit this list during any future tests with a view to adding additional metrics. PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 30 of 62 Slide 31: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Disclaimer & Disclosure This report only covers versions of products that were available as at 11 November 2008. The products we have tested are not an exhaustive list of all products available in these very competitive product categories. Disclaimer of Liability While every effort has been made to ensure that the information presented in this report is accurate, PassMark Software Pty Ltd assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, or out-ofdate information and shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages resulting from the availability of, use of, access of, or inability to use this information. Disclosure Symantec Corporation funded the production of this report and supplied some of the test scripts used for the tests (See Appendix 1 – Test method – How did we conduct these tests? below). Trademarks All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Contact details & more information PassMark Software Pty Ltd Suite 202, Level 2 35 Buckingham St. Surry Hills, 2010 Sydney, Australia Phone Fax Web + 61 2 9690 0444 + 61 2 9690 0445 www.passmark.com Download Link An electronic copy of this report can be found at the following location: http://www.passmark.com/ftp/antivirus_09-performance-testing-ed2.pdf PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 31 of 62 Slide 32: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Appendix 1 – Test method – How did we conduct these tests? Common methodology Norton Ghost was used to create images of the O/S and these clean images were restored before the test of each product. Image creation steps 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Install and activate Windows. Download and install Windows Updates. Disable Automatic Updates. Turn off Windows security notifications. Disable Windows Defender automatic scans to avoid unexpected background activity. Close and disable "start at run" on the Vista sidebar to avoid some background activity. Disable the Windows firewall. Install Ghost. Disable ghost taskbar icon from auto startup in msconfig. Disable windows defender from startup in msconfig. Optimize booting with ProcessIdleTasks (repeated several times). Disable Vista admin prompts to allow for better test automation. Reboot and tell msconfig not to start again. Create image using Norton Ghost. Benchmark 1 – Boot Time The machines were rebooted in a cyclic manner. Averages of 15 boot times were taken for each product on each machine. The start of the boot process was taken to be the end of the BIOS initialization and the end of the boot process was taken to be when the CPU was idle for five continuous seconds. Windows has various functions to optimize the boot process. Therefore, it is important to force optimization of the system before starting the test (with ProcessIdleTasks) and delete the Windows pre-fetch folder. Benchmark 2 – Total Scan Speed The time it took for each product to scan a set of sample files. The sample used was identical in all cases and contained a mixture of system files and Office files. In total there were 6159 files whose combined size was 982MB. Most of these files come from the Windows system folders. As the file types can influence the scan speed, the breakdown of the main file types, file numbers and total sizes of the files in the sample set is given here. .dll .exe .sys .gif .doc .wmf .png .html .nls .jpg .ini .ico .mof .ax .xls 2589 695 332 302 281 185 149 126 80 70 59 58 43 39 38 490MB 102MB 23MB 1MB 64MB 2MB 2MB 1MB 6MB 1MB 2MB <1MB 6MB 4MB 3MB .ime .drv .txt .chm .cpl .mfl .inf .hlp .imd .py .msc .vbs .xml .rtf .ocx 35 31 31 30 29 29 26 22 20 20 18 18 18 16 16 5MB 1MB 1MB 6MB 4MB 3MB 2MB 3MB 18MB <1MB 1MB 1MB 1MB 62MB 4MB .tsp .com .xsl .h .vsd .scr .aw .js .zip .lex .ppt .acm .wav 14 14 14 13 12 12 12 12 11 9 9 9 7 1MB <1MB <1MB <1MB 2MB 2MB 2MB 1MB 25MB 10MB 4MB 1MB 5MB PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 32 of 62 Slide 33: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS For each product, five samples were taken with the machine rebooted before each sample to clear any caching effects. Our result is an average of these five samples. Where possible, PerfScan++ was used to automate the testing process. Additionally, if possible, the scan was run without launching the product‟s UI. Where it was not possible to use PerfScan or the product‟s in-built scan speed timer, the samples were taken manually with a stopwatch. For some of these products, we noticed a substantial difference between the initial scan speed and subsequent scan speed, due to residual „caching‟ effects. We executed an additional Initial Scan Speed test on the Vista machine for the Internet Security products that exhibited this behavior. These products were Norton Internet Security beta 116, Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 and ESET Smart Security. The Initial Speed test comprised of three to five samples taken after re-imaging to a clean disk and newly installing each product (including a reboot). The average of these Initial Scan Speed samples is taken as the initial scan result (i.e. Scan 1) and averaged with four subsequent scan times to obtain the average Total Scan Speed result. Benchmark 3 – UI Launch Speed The launch speed of the product‟s user interface was tested using AppTimer. Each product was tested for five sets of three launches, with a reboot before each set. When compiling the results the first of each set was separated out so that there was a set of values for the initial launch after reboot and a set for subsequent launches. In some cases, AppTimer did not correctly record the time taken for UI launch. For instance, some applications would open their window and look like they were ready, but then continued to be unresponsive. Where this was noticeable the measurement was taken manually with a stop watch. Benchmark 4 – Memory Utilization The Perflog++ utility was used to record process memory usage on the system at boot, and then every minute for another fifteen minutes after. This was done only once per product and resulted in a total of 15 samples. However the first sample taken at boot was never counted. Because this recorded the memory usage of all processes, the products processes needed to be identified before the results could be processed. For this a program called Sysinternals Process Explorer was used to create a more detailed record of all the processes, with information such as company name included. This was run immediately after Perflog finished. Benchmark 5 – HTTP Download Test For this test PerfBench was used to download a set of files from a server running Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7. The client machine and the server were placed on an isolated network segment and PerfBench would download the file set fifteen times consecutively. Before the first test both the server and client were rebooted (but not in between subsequent samples). The file set used was a partial copy of CNN.com. The total size of the sample retrieved was 24,313,141 bytes and the total number of files was 422. Files from the CNN web site were selected as being a typical set of HTML files. PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 33 of 62 Slide 34: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 6 – IE Launch Speed The launch speed of Internet Explorer interface was tested using AppTimer. This test was practically identical to the UI launch test. Each product was tested for 5 sets of 3 launches, with a reboot before each set. When compiling the results the first of each set was separated out so that there was a set of values for the initial launch after reboot and a set for subsequent launches. Benchmark 7 – Installation Time This test measures the minimum Installation Time a product requires to be fully functional and ready for use by the end user. Installation time can usually be divided in three major phases:  The Extraction and Setup phase (green) consists of file extraction, the EULA prompt, product activation and user configurable options for installation.  The File Copy phase (yellow) occurs when the product is being installed; usually this phase is indicated by a progress bar.  The Post-Installation phase (tan) is any part of the installation that occurs after the File Copy phase. This phase varies widely between products; the time recorded in this phase may include a required reboot to finalize the installation or include the time the program takes to become idle in the system tray. To reduce the impact of disk drive variables, each product was copied to the Desktop before initializing installation. Each step of the installation process was manually timed with a stopwatch and recorded in as much detail as possible. Where input was required by the end user, the stopwatch was paused and the input noted in the raw results in parenthesis after the phase description. Where possible, all requests by products to pre-scan or post-install scan were declined or skipped. Where it was not possible to skip a scan, the time to scan was included as part of the installation time. Where an optional component of the installation formed a reasonable part of the functionality of the software, it was also installed (e.g. website link checking software as part of an IS). Installation time includes download components which have been integrated into the installation process and are non-optional. This may include minor updates (e.g. Microsoft Live OneCare) or the delivery of the application itself from a download manager (e.g. all McAfee products, Zone Alarm). Benchmark 8 – Installation Size A product's Installation Size was previously defined as the difference between the initial snapshot of the Disk Space (C: drive) before installation and the subsequent snapshot taken after the product is installed on the system. Although this is a widely used methodology, we noticed that the results it yielded were not always reproducible in Vista due to random OS operations that may take place between the two snapshots. We improved the Installation Size methodology by removing as many Operating System and disk space variables as possible. Using PassMark‟s OSCheck, we created initial and post-installation disk signatures for each product. These disk signatures recorded the amount of files and directories, and complete details of all files on that drive (including file name, file size, checksum, etc) at the time the signature was taken. The initial disk signature was taken immediately prior to installation of the product. A subsequent disk signature was taken immediately following a system reboot after product installation. Using OSCheck, we compared the two signatures and calculated the total disk space consumed by all (and only) new files added during product installation. Our result for this metric reflects the total size of all newly added files during installation. PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 34 of 62 Slide 35: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS The scope of this metric includes only an „out of the box‟ installation size for each product. Our result does not cover the size of files downloaded by the product after its installation (such as engine or signature updates), or any files created by system restore points, pre-fetch files and other temporary files. Benchmark 9 – Registry Key Count This test measures the amount of keys and values added to registry, after rebooting the test machine following a successful product installation. The test was conducted using RegistryCounter.exe, an application which conducts a count of all keys, errors and values under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_USERS. Two Registry Key counts are taken, one prior to installation and a second immediately following a reboot after installation. To obtain our result, we calculated the difference between the two registry key totals Benchmarks 10-15 – Real-Time Performance We used a single script in testing Benchmarks 10-15. The script first defragments the disk volume (where defragmentation is higher than 15%) and then consecutively executes tests for Benchmarks 10-15. The script times each phase in these benchmarks using CommandTimer.exe and appends results to a log file. Benchmarks 10 – File Copy, Move and Delete This test measures the amount of time required for the system to copy, move and delete samples of files in various file formats. This sample was made up of 812 files over 760,867,636 bytes and can be categorized as documents [26% of total], media files [54% of total] and PE files (i.e. System Files) [20% of total]. The breakdown of the main file types, file numbers and total sizes of the files in the sample set is shown in the following table: File format DOC DOCX PPT PPTX XLS XLSX PDF ZIP 7Z JPG GIF MOV RM AVI WMV MP3 EXE DLL Category Documents Documents Documents Documents Documents Documents Documents Documents Documents Media Media Media Media Media Media Media PE PE Number 8 4 3 3 4 4 73 4 1 351 6 7 1 8 5 28 19 104 Size (bytes) 30,450,176 13,522,409 5,769,216 4,146,421 2,660,352 1,426,054 136,298,049 6,295,987 92,238 31,375,259 148,182 57,360,371 5,658,646 78,703,408 46,126,167 191,580,387 2,952,914 29,261,568 PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 35 of 62 Slide 36: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS File format AX CPL CPX DRV ICO MSC NT ROM SCR SYS TLB TSK UCE EXE DLL AX CPL CPX DRV ICO MSC NT ROM SCR SYS TLB TSK UCE Category PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE PE Total Number 1 2 2 10 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 1 19 104 1 2 2 10 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 1 812 Size (bytes) 18,432 2,109,440 4,384 154,864 107,620 41,587 1,688 36,611 2,250,240 37,528,093 135,580 1,152 22,984 2,952,914 29,261,568 18,432 2,109,440 4,384 154,864 107,620 41,587 1,688 36,611 2,250,240 37,528,093 135,580 1,152 22,984 760,867,636 This test was conducted three to five times to obtain the average time to copy, move and delete the sample files, with the test machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects. Benchmark 11 – Third Party Program Installation This test measured how much time was required to install and uninstall a third party application. For this test, CommandTimer.exe timed how long it took to install and uninstall the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (.msi) application on the test machine. This test was conducted three to five times to obtain the average time to install/uninstall a third party program, with the test machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects. PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 36 of 62 Slide 37: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Benchmark 12 – Binary File Download Speed This benchmark measured how much time was required to download a sample set of binary files of various sizes and types over an isolated segment of the network. The files were hosted on a server machine running Windows Server 2008 and IIS7. CommandTimer.exe was used in conjunction with GNU Wget to time and conduct the download test. The complete sample set of files was made up of 553,638,694 bytes over 484 files and two file type categories: media files [74% of total] and documents [26% of total]. The breakdown of the file types, file numbers and total sizes of the files in the sample set is shown in the following table: File format JPEG GIF PNG MOV RM AVI WMV MP3 PDF ZIP 7Z Category Media Media Media Media Media Media Media Media Documents Documents Documents Total Number 343 9 5 7 1 8 5 28 73 4 1 484 Size (bytes) 30,668,312 360,349 494,780 57,360,371 5,658,646 78,703,408 46,126,167 191,580,387 136,298,049 6,295,987 92,238 553,638,694 This test was conducted three to five times to obtain the average time to download this sample of files, with the test machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects. Benchmark 13 – File Format Conversion (MP3  WAV, MP3  WMA) This test measured how much time was required to convert an MP3 into a WAV file and subsequently, convert the same MP3 sample into a WMA file. The sample MP3 used was 3,375,104 bytes in size. To encode the MP3 into another format, we used an application called ffmpeg.exe. The format conversion process was timed using CommandTimer.exe. This test was conducted three to five times to obtain the average conversion speed between these formats, with the test machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects. Benchmark 14 – File Compression and Decompression This test measured the amount of time required to compress and decompress a sample set of files. For this test, we used a subset of the media and documents files used in the File Copy, Move and Delete benchmark. CommandTimer.exe recorded the amount of time required for 7zip.exe to compress the files into a .zip and subsequently decompress the created .zip file. This subset comprised 404 files over 277,346,661 bytes. The breakdown of the file types, file numbers and total sizes of the files in the sample set is shown in the following table: PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 37 of 62 Slide 38: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS File format DOC DOCX PPT PPTX XLS XLSX JPG GIF MOV RM AVI WMV Category Documents Documents Documents Documents Documents Documents Media Media Media Media Media Media Total Number 8 4 3 3 4 4 351 6 7 1 8 5 404 Size (bytes) 30,450,176 13,522,409 5,769,216 4,146,421 2,660,352 1,426,054 31,375,259 148,182 57,360,371 5,658,646 78,703,408 46,126,167 277,346,661 This test was conducted three to five times to obtain the average file compression and decompression speed, with the test machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects. Benchmark 15 – File Write, Open and Close This benchmark was derived from Oli Warner‟s File I/O test at http://www.thepcspy.com (please see Reference #2: What Really Slows Windows Down). For this test, we developed OpenClose.exe, an application that looped writing a small file to disk, then opening and closing that file. CommandTimer.exe was used to time how long the process took to complete 180,000 cycles. This test was conducted three to five times to obtain the average file writing, opening and closing speed, with the test machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects. PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 38 of 62 Slide 39: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Appendix 2 – Test Environment IBM/Lenovo A55 ThinkCentre Desktop, Core2 6300, 1GB of RAM, 220GB Hard Disk Drive. Vista Ultimate (32-bit). (N.B. At the time of previous testing performed for Symantec, this machine was considered to be reasonably high end.) PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 39 of 62 Slide 40: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Appendix 3a – Internet Security Raw Results In the following tables, the column titled “Average” compares a product's performance to the industry average (marked in gray). Products with negative values have performed better than industry average, while products with positive values have performed worse than average. For example, the raw results from our Boot Time test indicate that Norton Internet Security 2009 has performed 20.51% better than the industry average in that category. For ease of comparison, we have highlighted the results we obtained for Norton Internet Security 2009 in orange. Industry averages are highlighted in silver. Boot Time Product Name ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Industry Average Panda Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 Time (Sec) 102.23 50.21 48.29 48.16 47.69 46.59 43.17 42.30 40.56 39.59 39.28 38.09 33.74 Average 114.39% 5.28% 1.27% 1.00% 0.00% -2.29% -9.46% -11.29% -14.94% -16.97% -17.62% -20.11% -29.26% Scan Speed Product Name ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Industry Average SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 Time (Sec) 568.32 355.80 179.60 163.73 145.97 130.99 130.41 121.68 94.90 71.40 67.33 65.80 32.60 Average 247.10% 117.30% 9.69% 0.00% -10.85% -20.00% -20.35% -25.68% -42.04% -56.39% -58.88% -59.81% -80.09% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 40 of 62 Slide 41: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Initial UI Launch Speed Product Name Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Industry Average ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Time (ms) 4450.00 4024.00 3490.00 2834.00 2425.50 1843.37 1,766.00 1570.00 612.40 382.58 262.30 253.68 50.00 Average 141.41% 118.30% 89.33% 53.74% 31.58% 0.00% -4.20% -14.83% -66.78% -79.25% -85.77% -86.24% -97.29% Subsequent UI Launch Speed Product Name Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Industry Average ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Time (ms) 3611.00 3579.00 2858.00 2847.00 1642.11 1523.92 1,441.00 1170.00 556.59 268.49 220.26 51.70 41.93 Average 136.95% 134.85% 87.54% 86.82% 7.76% 0.00% -5.44% -23.22% -63.48% -82.38% -85.55% -96.61% -97.25% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 41 of 62 Slide 42: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Memory Utilization Product Name G-Data Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Industry Average SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 RAM (MB) 117.61 102.56 66.46 64.34 57.74 52.05 51.09 37.35 33.38 32.09 22.38 20.19 6.92 Average 130.21% 100.74% 30.08% 25.94% 13.03% 1.88% 0.00% -26.90% -34.66% -37.19% -56.19% -60.48% -86.45% HTTP Download Product Name G-Data Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Industry Average F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Time (ms) 53,678 33,568 16,148 15,731 15,050 13,034 12,831 12,316 10,861 7,501 5,859 4,201 3,718 Average 241.24% 113.39% 2.66% 0.00% -4.32% -17.14% -18.43% -21.71% -30.96% -52.31% -62.75% -73.30% -76.37% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 42 of 62 Slide 43: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Initial IE Launch Speed Product Name Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Industry Average G-Data Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Time (ms) 3,179.55 1,529.22 1,187.25 994.44 961.50 909.90 771.70 760.60 648.48 598.08 594.25 433.00 359.76 Average 219.73% 53.78% 19.39% 0.00% -3.31% -8.50% -22.40% -23.51% -34.79% -39.86% -40.24% -56.46% -63.82% Subsequent IE Launch Speed Product Name Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Industry Average Panda Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Time (ms) 1,110.01 729.45 690.33 544.33 540.78 532.81 496.63 495.17 487.43 384.90 381.36 359.86 323.20 Average 103.92% 34.01% 26.82% 0.00% -0.65% -2.12% -8.76% -9.03% -10.45% -29.29% -29.94% -33.89% -40.62% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 43 of 62 Slide 44: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Installation Time Product Name McAfee Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Industry Average G-Data Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 ESET Smart Security 2008 Norton Internet Security 2009 Time (Sec) 495.89 353.90 310.04 234.80 224.25 209.21 201.63 183.17 178.60 148.43 68.04 58.94 52.77 Average 137.04% 69.16% 48.20% 12.23% 7.19% 0.00% -3.62% -12.44% -14.63% -29.05% -67.48% -71.83% -74.78% Installation Size Product Name G-Data Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Industry Average McAfee Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 ESET Smart Security 2008 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Size (MB) 488.48 391.62 280.25 213.87 188.66 183.45 145.97 138.24 108.39 86.89 83.83 58.68 16.53 Average 234.64% 168.28% 91.98% 46.51% 29.24% 0.00% 0.00% -5.30% -25.75% -40.48% -42.57% -59.80% -88.67% * SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 added an additional 27MB of files where software and virus definitions were updated via the web. PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 44 of 62 Slide 45: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Registry Key Count Product Name McAfee Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Industry Average F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 AVG Internet Security 2008 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Keys 7,043 6,413 5,779 5,779 5,466 5,380 4163.17 3,411 2,706 2,582 1,916 1,782 1,701 Average 69.17% 54.04% 38.81% 38.81% 31.29% 29.23% 0.00% -18.07% -35.00% -37.98% -53.98% -57.20% -59.14% File Copy, Move and Delete Product Name AVG Internet Security 2008 Norton Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Industry Average Panda Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Time (Sec) 85.78 76.79 71.76 68.69 65.64 63.25 62.45 61.82 60.60 57.18 50.09 49.68 48.52 Average 35.62% 21.40% 13.45% 8.60% 3.77% 0.00% -1.26% -2.25% -4.18% -9.59% -20.81% -21.46% -23.28% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 45 of 62 Slide 46: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Third Party Program Installation Product Name ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Industry Average Panda Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 AVG Internet Security 2008 Time (Sec) 78.60 78.27 75.73 73.47 58.65 56.82 52.57 51.63 50.17 49.44 49.38 46.30 41.45 Average 34.01% 33.44% 29.12% 25.26% 0.00% -3.12% -10.37% -11.97% -14.47% -15.71% -15.81% -21.06% -29.33% Binary Download Speed Product Name AVG Internet Security 2008 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Industry Average F-Secure Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Norton Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 Time (Sec) 104.15 70.42 70.20 67.06 65.26 62.96 62.54 62.38 62.17 61.68 61.46 60.79 60.70 Average 55.31% 5.01% 4.68% 0.00% -2.69% -6.11% -6.74% -6.98% -7.29% -8.03% -8.35% -9.34% -9.48% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 46 of 62 Slide 47: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS File Format Conversion Product Name ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 Industry Average McAfee Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Time (Sec) 17.88 17.86 17.77 17.54 17.46 17.39 17.23 17.01 16.80 16.80 16.79 16.78 16.65 Average 3.78% 3.67% 3.13% 1.81% 1.36% 0.93% 0.00% -1.24% -2.47% -2.51% -2.55% -2.57% -3.33% File Compression and Decompression Product Name Panda Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 F-Secure Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Industry Average Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Norton Internet Security 2009 Time (Sec) 53.76 51.82 47.44 46.57 45.69 44.50 43.60 42.70 38.15 36.02 35.92 35.52 33.46 Average 25.90% 21.35% 11.08% 9.05% 6.99% 4.21% 2.10% 0.00% -10.67% -15.65% -15.87% -16.83% -21.65% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 47 of 62 Slide 48: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS File Write, Open and Close Product Name F-Secure Internet Security 2009 SourceNext Virus Security ZERO 2009 McAfee Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro VirusBuster 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Industry Average ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 ESET Smart Security 2008 Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 G-Data Internet Security 2009 Norton Internet Security 2009 Panda Internet Security 2009 AVG Internet Security 2008 Time (Sec) 20,618.08 2,215.27 853.59 759.29 758.43 470.54 196.89 90.79 88.46 82.11 51.74 48.84 30.51 Average 4281.79% 370.79% 81.41% 61.37% 61.18% 0.00% -58.16% -80.71% -81.20% -82.55% -89.00% -89.62% -93.52% * F-Secure Internet Security 2009 has performed poorly, relative to other products in this category. Therefore, it has been excluded from the industry average. PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 48 of 62 Slide 49: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Appendix 3b – Antivirus Raw Results In the following tables, the column titled “Average” compares a product's performance to the industry average (marked in gray). Products with negative values have performed better than industry average, while products with positive values have performed worse than average. For example, the raw results from our Boot Time test indicate that Norton Antivirus 2009 has performed 14.07% better than the industry average in that category. For ease of comparison, we have highlighted the results we obtained for Norton Antivirus 2009 in orange. Industry averages are highlighted in silver. Boot Time Product Name Rising Security Antivirus AVG Free AV&AS 2008 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Industry Average McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Norton Antivirus 2009 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Time (Sec) 46.06 45.51 44.70 42.92 41.13 40.12 39.76 39.70 37.98 35.97 34.26 33.39 Average 14.78% 13.42% 11.41% 6.96% 2.52% 0.00% -0.90% -1.07% -5.35% -10.36% -14.62% -16.79% Scan Speed Product Name AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Rising Security Antivirus Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Industry Average Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 Time (Sec) 364.20 152.40 131.31 119.31 116.87 115.72 106.40 86.80 68.80 57.60 37.00 32.20 Average 214.73% 31.70% 13.48% 3.11% 0.99% 0.00% -8.05% -24.99% -40.54% -50.22% -68.03% -72.17% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 49 of 62 Slide 50: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Initial UI Launch Speed Product Name Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Industry Average Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus G-Data Antivirus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Time (ms) 3744.00 2654.00 2509.20 1659.98 1,217.03 803.10 674.78 565.40 343.70 218.53 167.70 47.00 Average 207.63% 118.07% 106.17% 36.40% 0.00% -34.01% -44.56% -53.54% -71.76% -82.04% -86.22% -96.14% Subsequent UI Launch Speed Product Name Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Industry Average Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus Norton Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Time (ms) 3440.00 2573.00 2452.70 1614.01 1,146.97 743.56 574.80 523.78 268.49 217.11 162.26 47.00 Average 199.92% 124.33% 113.84% 40.72% 0.00% -35.17% -49.89% -54.33% -76.59% -81.07% -85.85% -95.90% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 50 of 62 Slide 51: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Memory Utilization Product Name G-Data Antivirus 2009 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Industry Average ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Norton Antivirus 2009 RAM (MB) 133.00 56.06 43.80 36.12 32.95 25.91 22.30 20.35 20.34 19.23 18.05 5.38 Average 268.18% 55.18% 21.24% 0.00% -8.79% -28.27% -38.27% -43.67% -43.69% -46.77% -50.03% -85.11% HTTP Download Product Name G-Data Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus Industry Average ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Norton Antivirus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Time (ms) 53,678 33,846 32,220 17,513 16,610 11,939 10,864 10,754 7,786 7,022 4,346 3,581 Average 206.50% 93.26% 83.97% 0.00% -5.16% -31.83% -37.97% -38.59% -55.54% -59.90% -75.18% -79.55% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 51 of 62 Slide 52: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Initial IE Launch Speed Product Name AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Rising Security Antivirus Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Industry Average Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Time (ms) 1,352.86 1,311.43 784.88 781.94 713.81 707.75 559.60 500.25 494.04 464.80 456.80 437.56 Average 89.53% 83.72% 9.96% 9.54% 0.00% -0.85% -21.60% -29.92% -30.79% -34.88% -36.01% -38.70% Subsequent IE Launch Speed Product Name AVG Free AV&AS 2008 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Industry Average G-Data Antivirus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Avast! Antivirus 4.8 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Rising Security Antivirus Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Time (ms) 1,024.66 502.23 486.60 441.53 419.16 403.73 367.60 365.72 335.71 330.30 316.97 304.10 Average 132.07% 13.75% 10.21% 0.00% -5.07% -8.56% -16.74% -17.17% -23.97% -25.19% -28.21% -31.13% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 52 of 62 Slide 53: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Installation Time Product Name McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Rising Security Antivirus Industry Average Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Norton Antivirus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Time (Sec) 371.94 211.46 159.82 153.93 140.58 132.79 111.80 101.17 64.97 56.91 47.27 40.80 Average 180.10% 59.25% 20.36% 15.92% 5.87% 0.00% -15.80% -23.81% -51.07% -57.14% -64.40% -69.27% Installation Size Product Name G-Data Antivirus 2009 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus Industry Average Norton Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Size (MB) 425.21 237.28 159.57 134.31 116.49 114.50 98.19 72.35 71.45 69.05 58.23 55.11 Average 216.58% 76.66% 18.80% 0.00% -13.27% -14.75% -26.89% -46.13% -46.81% -48.59% -56.65% -58.97% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 53 of 62 Slide 54: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Registry Key Count Product Name Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 Industry Average Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS AVG Free AV&AS 2008 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Rising Security Antivirus Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Keys 6,010 5,412 3,683 2,724 2,441.45 2,382 2,058 1,719 994 884 801 189 Average 146.16% 121.67% 50.85% 11.57% 0.00% -2.44% -15.71% -29.59% -59.29% -63.79% -67.19% -92.26% File Copy, Move and Delete Product Name AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Norton Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Industry Average Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Time (Sec) 79.24 77.43 68.16 65.17 64.59 63.83 63.55 61.74 51.81 50.91 48.52 45.91 Average 28.35% 25.41% 10.40% 5.56% 4.61% 3.39% 2.93% 0.00% -16.09% -17.54% -21.41% -25.63% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 54 of 62 Slide 55: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Third Party Program Installation Product Name Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Industry Average G-Data Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Norton Antivirus 2009 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Rising Security Antivirus Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Time (Sec) 73.09 55.51 52.30 51.10 50.29 49.44 48.84 47.50 47.22 45.18 42.24 40.73 Average 45.35% 10.39% 4.01% 1.61% 0.00% -1.68% -2.87% -5.54% -6.10% -10.15% -16.00% -19.01% Binary Download Speed Product Name Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Industry Average Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus Avast! Antivirus 4.8 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Time (Sec) 71.58 70.20 64.04 62.27 61.65 60.11 59.37 59.05 58.59 58.52 57.29 57.17 Average 16.10% 13.85% 3.87% 1.00% 0.00% -2.50% -3.70% -4.23% -4.96% -5.09% -7.07% -7.27% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 55 of 62 Slide 56: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS File Format Conversion Product Name Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Rising Security Antivirus Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Industry Average ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Time (Sec) 18.11 17.40 17.38 17.34 17.14 17.07 17.04 17.03 16.88 16.79 16.77 16.76 Average 5.64% 1.49% 1.40% 1.14% 0.00% -0.44% -0.58% -0.66% -1.51% -2.06% -2.17% -2.24% File Compression and Decompression Product Name McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Industry Average Rising Security Antivirus G-Data Antivirus 2009 Norton Antivirus 2009 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Time (Sec) 50.69 47.76 46.14 45.49 43.27 41.98 41.41 38.91 36.02 35.83 34.99 34.46 Average 22.40% 15.32% 11.41% 9.84% 4.50% 1.38% 0.00% -6.04% -13.02% -13.49% -15.50% -16.80% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 56 of 62 Slide 57: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS File Write, Open and Close Product Name McAfee VirusScanPlus 2009 Trend Micro Antivirus 2009 Industry Average Rising Security Antivirus ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 G-Data Antivirus 2009 Avast! Antivirus 4.8 Sunbelt VIPRE AV and AS Norton Antivirus 2009 Avira AntiVir Free AV 8 AVG Free AV&AS 2008 Time (Sec) 854.32 755.06 205.95 154.07 102.17 84.52 82.11 63.64 51.92 50.33 36.18 31.13 Average 314.82% 266.63% 0.00% -25.19% -50.39% -58.96% -60.13% -69.10% -74.79% -75.56% -82.43% -84.88% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 57 of 62 Slide 58: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Appendix 3c – Total Security Raw Results In the following tables, the column titled “Average” compares a product's performance to the industry average (marked in gray). Products with negative values have performed better than industry average, while products with positive values have performed worse than average. For example, the following Boot Time table shows that Windows OneCare has performed 46.68% worse than the Industry Average. As this report reflects the most up to date products, Norton 360 v2 has been removed as the new release (v3) is currently in beta. This report will be updated when the new release can be tested. For ease of comparison, industry averages are highlighted in silver. Boot Time Product Name BitDefender Total Security 2009 Industry Average McAfee Total Protection 2009 Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 Windows OneCare 2.5 Time (Sec) 277.99 101.66 48.66 42.06 37.93 Average 173.45% 0.00% -52.13% -58.63% -62.69% Scan Speed Product Name Windows OneCare 2.5 Industry Average Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 McAfee Total Protection 2009 BitDefender Total Security 2009 Time (Sec) 182.38 137.36 132.22 123.19 111.65 Average 32.77% 0.00% -3.74% -10.32% -18.71% Initial UI Launch Speed Product Name Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 McAfee Total Protection 2009 Industry Average Windows OneCare 2.5 BitDefender Total Security 2009 Time (ms) 4005.00 3054.00 2254.91 1734.00 226.65 Average 77.61% 35.44% 0.00% -23.10% -89.95% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 58 of 62 Slide 59: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Subsequent UI Launch Speed Product Name Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 McAfee Total Protection 2009 Industry Average Windows OneCare 2.5 BitDefender Total Security 2009 Time (ms) 3590.00 2734.00 1973.15 1431.00 137.59 Average 81.94% 38.56% 0.00% -27.48% -93.03% Memory Utilization Product Name McAfee Total Protection 2009 Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 Industry Average BitDefender Total Security 2009 Windows OneCare 2.5 RAM (MB) 57.13 53.21 47.42 40.04 39.31 Average 20.47% 12.20% 0.00% -15.57% -17.10% HTTP Download Product Name McAfee Total Protection 2009 BitDefender Total Security 2009 Industry Average Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 Windows OneCare 2.5 Time (ms) 34,180 16,849 16626.14 12,248 3,227 Average 105.58% 1.34% 0.00% -26.34% -80.59% Initial IE Launch Speed Product Name Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 Industry Average McAfee Total Protection 2009 BitDefender Total Security 2009 Windows OneCare 2.5 Time (ms) 3777.94 1468.62 964.17 582.06 550.30 Average 157.24% 0.00% -34.35% -60.37% -62.53% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 59 of 62 Slide 60: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS Subsequent IE Launch Speed Product Name Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 Industry Average McAfee Total Protection 2009 Windows OneCare 2.5 BitDefender Total Security 2009 Time (ms) 1274.07 731.06 590.81 550.30 509.06 Average 74.28% 0.00% -19.18% -24.73% -30.37% Installation Time Product Name McAfee Total Protection 2009 Industry Average Windows OneCare 2.5 BitDefender Total Security 2009 Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 Time (Sec) 964.34 441.85 334.36 250.12 218.57 Average 118.25% 0.00% -24.33% -43.39% -50.53% Installation Size Product Name Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 BitDefender Total Security 2009 Industry Average Windows OneCare 2.5 McAfee Total Protection 2009 Size (MB) 385.81 336.04 298.93 197.79 151.01 Average 29.06% 12.41% 0.00% -33.83% -49.48% Registry Key Count Product Name BitDefender Total Security 2009 Windows OneCare 2.5 Industry Average McAfee Total Protection 2009 Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 Keys 14,878 12,252 10,058 7,224 5,877 Average 47.93% 21.82% 0.00% -28.17% -41.57% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 60 of 62 Slide 61: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS File Copy, Move and Delete Product Name McAfee Total Protection 2009 Windows OneCare 2.5 Industry Average Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 BitDefender Total Security 2009 Time (Sec) 66.78 64.39 59.37 56.38 49.93 Average 12.49% 8.45% 0.00% -5.04% -15.90% Third Party Program Installation Product Name Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 Industry Average McAfee Total Protection 2009 Windows OneCare 2.5 BitDefender Total Security 2009 Time (Sec) 72.83 51.49 46.97 44.67 41.50 Average 41.44% 0.00% -8.78% -13.25% -19.41% Binary Download Speed Product Name McAfee Total Protection 2009 BitDefender Total Security 2009 Industry Average Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 Windows OneCare 2.5 Time (Sec) 71.82 68.53 65.13 62.23 57.93 Average 10.27% 5.23% 0.00% -4.44% -11.05% File Format Conversion Product Name Windows OneCare 2.5 Industry Average Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 BitDefender Total Security 2009 McAfee Total Protection 2009 Time (Sec) 38.24 22.64 17.56 17.42 17.35 Average 68.89% 0.00% -22.44% -23.06% -23.39% PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 61 of 62 Slide 62: Benchmark Report PERFORMANCE TESTING of 2009 PRODUCTS File Compression and Decompression Product Name McAfee Total Protection 2009 Industry Average Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 Windows OneCare 2.5 BitDefender Total Security 2009 Time (Sec) 42.23 39.42 39.14 38.24 38.08 Average 7.11% 0.00% -0.71% -3.00% -3.40% File Write, Open and Close Product Name BitDefender Total Security 2009 McAfee Total Protection 2009 Trend Micro IS Pro 2009 Industry Average Windows OneCare 2.5 Time (Sec) 3,268.72 817.90 759.88 665.57 418.93 Average 391.12% 22.89% 14.17% 0.00% -37.06% * BitDefender Total Security 2009 has performed poorly, relative to other products in this category. Therefore, it has been excluded from the industry average. PassMark® Software 6-Feb-09 Page 62 of 62