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Consumer Security ProductsPassMark SoftwarePerformance Metrics SummaryWe have selected a set of objective metrics which provide a comprehensive and realistic indication of the areasin which an antivirus may impact system performance for end users. Our metrics test the impact of the antivirussoftware on common tasks that end-users would perform on a daily basis.All of PassMark Software’s test methods can be replicated by third parties using the same environment to obtainsimilar benchmark results. Detailed descriptions of the methodologies used in our tests are available as“Appendix 2 – Methodology Description” of this report.Benchmark 1 – Boot TimeThis metric measures the amount of time taken for the machine to boot into the operating system. Securitysoftware is generally launched at Windows startup, adding an additional amount of time and delaying thestartup of the operating system. Shorter boot times indicate that the application has had less impact on thenormal operation of the machine.Benchmark 2 – Scan TimeAll antivirus solutions have functionality designed to detect viruses and various other forms of malware byscanning files on the system. This metric measured the amount of time required to scan a set of clean files. Oursample file set comprised a total file size of 982 MB and was made up of files that would typically be found onend-user machines, such as media files, system files and Microsoft Office documents.Benchmark 3 – User Interface Launch TimeThis metric provides an objective indication as to how responsive a security product appears to the user, bymeasuring the amount of time it takes for the user interface of the antivirus software to launch from Windows.To allow for caching effects by the operating system, both the initial launch time and the subsequent launchtimes were measured. Our final result is an average of these two measurements.Benchmark 4 – Memory Usage during System IdleThis metric measures the amount of memory (RAM) used by the product while the machine and antivirussoftware are in an idle state. The total memory usage was calculated by identifying all antivirus softwareprocesses and the amount of memory used by each process.The amount of memory used while the machine is idle provides a good indication of the amount of systemresources being consumed by the antivirus software on a permanent basis. Better performing products occupyless memory while the machine is idle.Benchmark 5 – Browse TimeIt is common behavior for security products to scan data for malware as it is downloaded from the internet orintranet. This behavior may negatively impact browsing speed as products scan web content for malware. Thismetric measures the time taken to browse a set of popular internet sites to consecutively load from a localserver in a user’s browser window.Performance BenchmarkEdition 3Page 10 of 6716 February 2012

Consumer Security ProductsPassMark SoftwareBenchmark 6 – Internet Explorer Launch TimeThis metric is one of many methods to objectively measure how much a security product impacts on theresponsiveness of the system. This metric measures the amount of time it takes to launch the user interface ofInternet Explorer 8. To allow for caching effects by the operating system, both the initial launch time and thesubsequent launch times were measured. Our final result is an average of these two measurements.Benchmark 7 – Installation TimeThe speed and ease of the installation process will strongly influence the user’s first impression of the antivirussoftware. This test measures the minimum installation time required by the antivirus software to be fullyfunctional and ready for use by the end user. Lower installation times represent antivirus products which arequicker for a user to install.Benchmark 8 – Installation SizeIn offering new features and functionality to users, antivirus software products tend to increase in size with eachnew release. Although new technologies push the size limits of hard drives each year, the growing disk spacerequirements of common applications and the increasing popularity of large media files (such as movies, photosand music) ensure that a product's installation size will remain of interest to home users.This metric aims to measure a product’s total installation size. This metric is defined as the total disk spaceconsumed by all new files added during a product's installation.Benchmark 9 – Registry Keys AddedA large registry increases a machine’s use of resources. This may negatively impact system performance,especially on much older machines. This test measures the amount of keys and values added to registry, afterrebooting the test machines, following a successful product installation. Lower numbers mean that a product hasadded fewer keys during installation and had less impact on the registry.Benchmark 10 – File Copy, Move and DeleteThis metric measures the amount of time taken to move, copy and delete a sample set of files. The sample fileset contains several types of file formats that a Windows user would encounter in daily use. These formatsinclude documents (e.g. Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDF, Zip files, etc), media formats (e.g. images,movies and music) and system files (e.g. executables, libraries, etc).Benchmark 11 – Installing Third Party ApplicationsThis metric measures the amount of time taken to install and uninstall third party programs. The installationspeed of third party applications may be impacted by antivirus behavior such as heuristics or real time malwarescanning.Benchmark 12 – Network ThroughputThe metric measures the amount of time taken to download a variety of files from a local server using theHyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which is the main protocol used on the web for browsing, linking and datatransfer. Files used in this test include file formats that users would typically download from the web, such asimages, archives, music files and movie files.Performance BenchmarkEdition 3Page 11 of 6716 February 2012

Consumer Security ProductsPassMark SoftwareBenchmark 13 – File Format ConversionThis test measures the amount of time taken to convert an MP3 file to a WAV and subsequently, convert thesame MP3 file to a WMA format.Benchmark 14 – File Compression and DecompressionThis metric measures the amount of time taken to compress and decompress different types of files. Filesformats used in this test included documents, movies and images.Benchmark 15 – File Write, Open and CloseThis benchmark was derived from Oli Warner’s File I/O test at http://www.thepcspy.com (please see Reference#1: What Really Slows Windows Down). This metric measures the amount of time taken to write a file, thenopen and close that file.Benchmark 16 – PE Scan TimeAll antivirus solutions have functionality designed to detect viruses and various other forms of malware byscanning files on the system. This metric measured the amount of time required to scan a set of PE (PortableExecutable) files. Our sample file set comprised a total file size of 2.03GB and consisted of .exe (329MB), .dll(920MB) and .sys files (827MB).Benchmark 17 – File Copy Disk To DiskThis test measures the amount of time taken to copy files between two local drives. The data set comprised atotal file size of 5.44GB, and the formats used included documents, movies, images and executables.Performance BenchmarkEdition 3Page 12 of 6716 February 2012

Consumer Security ProductsPassMark SoftwareInternet Security Software – Test ResultsIn the following charts, we have highlighted the results we obtained for Norton Internet Security 2012 in yellow.The average has also been highlighted in blue for ease of comparison.Benchmark 1 – Boot TimeThe following chart compares the average time taken for the system to boot (from a sample of five boots) foreach Internet Security product tested. Products with lower boot times are considered better performingproducts in this category.Webroot SecureAnywhere Essentials 201226.37Trend Micro Virus Buster 201227.32Avast! Internet Security 628.95AVG Internet Security 201230.78Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 201230.80Norton Internet Security 201231.73Avira Internet Security 201232.61SourceNEXTstyle ZERO32.91Kaspersky Internet Security 201234.10Average36.26Panda Internet Security 201236.99G Data Internet Security 201238.21BitDefender Internet Security 201238.51McAfee Internet Security 201282.120sPerformance BenchmarkEdition 310 s20 s30 s40 s50 s60 s70 s80 s90 sPage 13 of 6716 February 2012

Consumer Security ProductsPassMark SoftwareBenchmark 2 – Scan TimeThe following chart compares the average time taken to scan a set of 6159 files (totaling 982 MB) for eachInternet Security product tested. This time is calculated by averaging the initial (Run 1) and subsequent (Runs 25) scan times. Products with lower scan times are considered better performing products in this category.G Data Internet Security 201222.50Webroot SecureAnywhere Essentials 201222.63Norton Internet Security 201223.25AVG Internet Security 201225.38McAfee Internet Security 201227.50Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 201236.21Avast! Internet Security 636.75Average41.08Avira Internet Security 201242.75BitDefender Internet Security 201243.50Trend Micro Virus Buster 201244.25Kaspersky Internet Security 201245.58Panda Internet Security 201275.79SourceNEXTstyle ZERO88.000sPerformance BenchmarkEdition 310 s20 s30 s40 s50 s60 s70 s80 s90 s100 sPage 14 of 6716 February 2012

Consumer Security ProductsPassMark SoftwareBenchmark 3 – User Interface Launch TimeThe following chart compares the average time taken to launch a product’s user interface. Products with lowerlaunch times are considered better performing products in this category.Trend Micro Virus Buster 201231.04Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 201232.63SourceNEXTstyle ZERO90.35McAfee Internet Security 2012127.77G Data Internet Security 2012Webroot SecureAnywhere Essentials 2012Avast! Internet Security 6Kaspersky Internet Security 2012Average241.30289.99305.06395.00523.33Avira Internet Security 2012789.20BitDefender Internet Security 2012790.14Norton Internet Security 2012AVG Internet Security 2012Panda Internet Security 20120 msPerformance BenchmarkEdition 3991.781,082.471,636.60200 ms 400 ms 600 ms 800 ms 1,000 ms 1,200 ms 1,400 ms 1,600 ms 1,800 msPage 15 of 6716 February 2012

Consumer Security ProductsPassMark SoftwareBenchmark 4 – Memory Usage during System IdleThe following chart compares the average amount of RAM in use by an Internet Security product during a periodof system idle. This average is taken from a sample of ten memory snapshots taken at roughly 60 seconds apartafter reboot. Products with lower idle RAM usage are considered better performing products in this category.Webroot SecureAnywhere Essentials 20122.70Avast! Internet Security 6Norton Internet Security 2012Panda Internet Security 2012BitDefender Internet Security 201216.9324.0440.3044.37Average52.16Avira Internet Security 201252.54Kaspersky Internet Security 2012AVG Internet Security 2012Trend Micro Virus Buster 2012McAfee Internet Security 2012Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 2012SourceNEXTstyle ZEROG Data Internet Security 20120 MBPerformance BenchmarkEdition 355.0356.5062.4971.1780.2685.1086.6010 MB 20 MB 30 MB 40 MB 50 MB 60 MB 70 MB 80 MB 90 MB 100 MBPage 16 of 6716 February 2012

Consumer Security ProductsPassMark SoftwareBenchmark 5 – Browse TimeThe following chart compares the average time taken for Internet Explorer to successively load a set of

Consumer Security Products PassMark Software Performance Benchmark Page 9 of 67 Edition 3 16 February 2012 Antivirus Software Manufacturer Product Name Release Year Product Version Date Tested Symantec Corporation Norton AntiVirus 2012 2011 19.1.0.21 Aug 2011 G Data Software AG G Data Antivirus 2012 2011 22.0.2.25 Jun 2011