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At the same time, it had minimal impact on PC performance, and an acceptable complete malware removal score of 60 percent. G Data InternetSecurity ($45): Among 14 paid packages tested, G Data Internet Security provided the best protection against known malware with a 99.99 percent detection rate.


G Data InternetSecurity 2012 earned the top ranking among paid antivirus programs in our January roundup. Here are the top four programs you might consider purchasing, with their prices for one year of protection on three PCs lited parenthetically: To compare these, I’ll refer to a roundup review of paid security suites that we posted in January of this year.
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Though free antivirus programs can provide adequate protection for most users, the best protection must be bought. Though it scored lower than Security Essentials on AV-Test’s remaining detection and repair tests, Avira did provide much faster scanning. Though Panda’s malware repair percentage was among the lowest in the group of seven, it tied with AVG for the best performance at fully blocking brand-new threats, turning in a rate of 85.7 percent, versus Security Essentials’ mark of 71.4 percent.Īvira Free Antivirus : Avira provided the third-highest detection rate (out of seven free antiviruses tested) for spotting known malware samples: 99.7 percent, compared to Security Essentials’ rate of 97 percent. Panda Cloud Antivirus : This tool provided the second highest protection against known malware samples overall at 99.9 percent, compared to 97 percent by Security Essentials. Avast Free Antivirus did provide better blocking of real-world malware, achieving a 78.6 percent rate, compared to Security Essentials’ 71.4 percent. Its rate of completely removing malware (67 percent) fell short of Security Essentials’ rate (80 percent) and the two programs delivered matching 93 percent rates for disabling active malware. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition also tied Panda Cloud Antivirus for the top rate of blocking brand-new threats, at 85.7 percent, whereas Security Essentials was at 71.4 percent.Īvast Free Antivirus : Avast’s freebie provided strong detection of known malware samples, at 99.1 percent. And though it wasn’t as good at completely removing malware as Security Essentials (66.7 percent versus 80 percent), it was the only antivirus to disable 100 percent of detected malware Security Essentials finished at 93 percent on this measure. But the program’s results for malware detection are much worse: It placed 21st in a field of 22.ĪVG Anti-Virus Free Edition : Though it had the lowest detection rate of the top four free antivirus programs with a 98.7 percent detection rate against known malware (Avast, Panda, and Avira finished with rates of 99.1 percent, 99.9 percent, and 99.7 percent, respectively), it handily outperformed Security Essentials (which finished with a detection rate of 97 percent). Those results, at this writing, show that Security Essentials provides great malware repair and removal: placing third, just behind Bitdefender and Kaspersky. To compare the protection strength of Security Essentials to that other free and paid antiviruses, you can refer to AV-Test’s website for its latest testing results. Our reviewers found it easy to use and deemed it the best of the seven at completely removing malware that it uncovered but they also found its malware detection rate rather lackluster: It spotted 97 percent of known malware samples, whereas programs turned in detection rates as high as 99.9 percent. In this group, Security Essentials placed fifth. In a roundup review that we posted three months ago, based on evaluations that we conducted in conjunction with AV-Test, a well-respected antivirus-software testing lab, we appraised the performance of seven free antivirus programs.
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Security companies regularly update their products, and the results you obtain with the most recent iteration of each package could very well differ from those discussed here, but the earlier data does give us a rough idea of how Security Essentials and Windows Defender match up to their competition. Consequently, using the results from the existing Security Essentials review for a casual comparison seems reasonable. Windows Defender and Microsoft Security Essentials also have very similar interfaces.
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Though we haven’t fully tested Windows Defender in Windows 8 yet, we have tested Microsoft Security Essentials, which uses the same antimalware engine as Windows Defender.
