Avg free 2018 or avast comparison upgrade#

Formerly Symantec, Norton acquired LifeLock identity protection in 2017, which led to its name change of NortonLifeLock. There is a clear winner here, and that has to be Bitdefender, which yet again stayed in the top 5 longer than any other with an impressive 8 months, and always with a low false positive rate. Norton is well known and a global leader in the antivirus program world and has been around for 28 years. Kaspersky may only have been in the top 5 for 4 months, but only twice dropped to the bottom half, and consistently stayed near the top. Microsoft share the most amount of false positives with F-Secure at 5 months each.īoth out-do the consistently worst performing AV on this score, however F-Secure is also in the top 5 for an equal amount of time.Īvira, F-Secure and Trend Micro all spent 5 months in the top 5, but all showed occasional big swings in reliability, however they most of the time stayed in the top half even when not in the top 5. Last year they managed 3 months in the top 5, coming equal with Avast, AVG, McAfee, Panda and Tencent. to personalize the antivirus according to one’s need. And at the bottom, Settings is provided to manage language, virus chest size, Scan settings, Popups, Sound, Alerts, etc.

Avg free 2018 or avast comparison upgrade#

Microsoft (the baseline) are rarely in the top 5 in any year, and are mostly near the bottom. Below on the left, you’ll find the option to Upgrade your free Avast antivirus to Avast Internet Security, Avast Premier or Avast Ultimate protection. I have broken it down into how often each package from the monthly top 5 features in the top 5, and how many times a package from this group has the worst hit rate for false positives (marked with *).ġ8 Microsoft * Final Analysis and Context The top 5 have been marked in green in each image, and the baseline of Microsoft AV is selected in each for comparison. A breakdown of the performance of AntiVirus over the past year, based on the Real World Protection Test results from