The average for all eight Mac antivirus products tested was 36:30. The longest time we saw was 72:45 (for Kaspersky) and the shortest was 1:25 (for Bitdefender). Avira Free Antivirus for Mac's 12.8 percent was the highest we recorded, and Kaspersky's 4.5 percent was the lowest.ĪV-Comparatives lab tested AVG AntiVirus for Mac's malware-detection skills and found that it provides practically perfect protection.ĪVG's full scans completed in an average of 40 minutes and 51 seconds, which fell in the middle of the times we recorded.
You might notice that kind of slowdown if you're rendering video or playing games.
During a full-system scan, the OpenOffice test finished in 2 minutes and 40 seconds, signifying a performance dip of 12.1 percent, the second highest full-scan hit we found.
