ENTERPRISE
Whatever any competitor might say, here are some objective performance numbers. Sunbelt Software has recently (November 2008) done extensive internal research into the performance and resource utilization of the most popular commercial Enterprise Antivirus products on the market. The charts below show the results of this comparison. The test configuration and the specific versions of the software products are listed at the end of this chart. The tests were done as objectively as possible and all products in this comparison were purchased on the retail market, or downloaded as evaluation/trial copies shortly before the test. Anyone can repeat these tests and see the results for themselves. The numbers tell the story. VIPRE uses half of the resources of the competition. We took the average CPU % utilization of the other products during a scan and VIPRE used 53% CPU compared to the average. Next we did the same thing with Memory used during scan and VIPRE used 51% compared to the average.
VIPRE Enterprise only uses 27% of CPU resources during a manual scan. Legend across x-axis: CPU percentage
VIPRE Enterprise used only 49 MB RAM during a manual scan. Legend across x-axis: Megabytes
VIPRE Enterprise's Scan Speed is 13.95 MB/Sec on this hardware, and uses only 26% CPU compared to Webroot's 16.54 MB/sec using 71.89% CPU during a manual scan. It's obvious which code is more efficient. Legend across x-axis: Megabytes per Second
Test Computer Configuration : Average 2 year old desktop PC 2.8 GHz Intel Processor with 1 GB RAM 75 GB hard drive partitioned as C:\ and E:\ Software Configuration Windows XP Pro SP3 with MS Office 10 - (Access, Excel, FrontPage, Outlook, Publisher, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Word)
Products Tested: Vendor
Version
McAfee VirusScan
8.7.0.155
Sophos Enterprise Security and Control
3.1
Trend Micro OfficeScan
8.0+SP1_R3
Symantec Endpoint Protection
11.0.2010.7
Webroot AntiSpyware Corporate Edition with AntiVirus
3.5.1
VIPRE Enterprise
3.1.2978
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