software conflicts and/or user preferences, as well as different system configurations that may lead to varying results). Readers are invited to evaluate the various products themselves, to see what impact they have on their systems (due to e.g. We used the predefined PCMark 10 Extended test. We also used a third-party, industry-recognized performance testing suite (PC Mark 10 Professional) to measure the system impact during real-world product usage. We perform each test multiple times and provide the median as result. This is especially true for performance testing, as some noise is always present on real machines. We believe that increasing the number of iterations increases our statistical precision. We simulated various file operations that a computer user would execute: copying different types of clean files from one place to another, archiving and unarchiving files, downloading files from the Internet and launching applications (opening documents). After each run, the workstation was reverted to the previously created system image and rebooted six times.
The tests were repeated several times (with and without fingerprinting) in order to get median values and filter out measurement errors. Optimizing processes/fingerprinting used by the products were also considered – this means that the results represent the impact on a system which has already been operated by the user for a while.
The tests were done with an active Internet connection to allow for the real-world impact of cloud services/features.Ĭare was taken to minimize other factors that could influence the measurements and/or comparability of the systems. The performance tests were done on a clean Windows 10 64-Bit system (English) and then with the installed consumer security software (with default settings). We consider this machine configuration as “ low-end”. The tests were performed on a machine with an Intel Core i3 CPU, 4GB of RAM and SSD system drives.
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