ESET Threat Blog

I returned yesterday from Paris, where I attended the iAWACS and EICAR conferences. One of the papers I co-presented at EICAR was on performance testing (as opposed to detection testing). It was written by Ján Vrabec and myself, and it's called "Real Performance?" Here's the abstract:
The methodology and categories used in performance testing of anti-malware … Read More…

 We came across an interesting test report at http://www.passmark.com/ftp/antivirus_10-performance-testing-ed2.pdf. Symantec commissioned a comparative performance test from Passmark. That is, a test measuring performance in terms of speed and resource usage rather than looking at detection rates.
Not surprisingly, Symantec came out very well overall, and deserves congratulations for demonstrating how far it's gone in addressing its … Read More…