PRESS RELEASE
London, November 21, 2013 - Security expert Avira announced today that it earned the #1 best score in AV-Comparatives' Performance Test of antivirus suites. The Performance Test measures the impact of Internet security software on computer system performance, and Avira's security software was found to have the lowest impact score. In total, 22 competitive products were tested.
Accordingly, AV-Comparatives awarded Avira its ‘Advanced+' three-star certificate.
AV-Comparatives' Performance Test measures the speed of common computer operations like opening a PDF or Office document, downloading or copying a file, installing and uninstalling applications, archiving and unarchiving storage files, and encoding and transcoding multimedia files. The test then compares these speeds with and without the antivirus security software running. In every situation, Avira's security suites were fastest and earned the top score.
"Our job is to protect the customer. And the customer wants to be secure, but not have that security impact what he wants to do on his PC or mobile device. Avira is focused on bringing those two worlds together: delivering the best protection without impacting the performance" said Travis Witteveen, CEO of Avira. "These test results from AV-Comparatives prove that we are doing our job."
Links
- Download one of Avira's blindingly fast security suites: http://www.avira.com/en/downloads
- Follow Avira's TechBlog: http://techblog.avira.com/en
- Join the Avira community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/avira
About Avira
More than 100 million people rely on Avira's security 25-year expertise and award-winning antivirus software to protect them, making the company the number-two market share leader globally. Avira is recommended by Consumer Reports for its free antivirus software; cited by OPSWAT as the No.1 fastest-growing antivirus company in 2012 and the second largest company worldwide in 2011.
Avira provides family friendly IT-security protection, delivered as both software and cloud-based services. Visit www.avira.com. 100,000,000 users can't be wrong.
