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Bozos of Bones · 07-12-2005, 05:57 PM

I have now done a full comparison between Avast! and AVG, both latest versions.
Avast took thirty seven minutes to scan approximately 130GB of hard drive space. On a Barton 2500+ the taken processor time was around 25-45, and in an empty WindowsXP the usage is 5-10%. The Page File Usage was around 530 MB, against the usual 490MB, and it took about fifty or so MB of RAM.
AVG took twenty two minutes to perform the check on the same hard drive. Note that during the first test AVG has been unloaded, so he could not have learnt from avast's scans. The processor usage was between 40 and 65%, page file 550 or so and about 80 MB of RAM was used for it.
On one of my drives I have a secured and hidden folder with compressed tools, viruses, trojans, worms and whatnot, a total of 17 malware programs. I use it to grade antivirus programs. So far, not one AV program has managed to find all of them. Avast didn't find any of them, whereas AVG finds 4. And they both picked up a small worm I recently got off a friend's hard drive.
AVG seems to be the bigger gun.

07-12-2005, 05:57 PM	#7
Bozos of Bones Apophis Join Date: July 29, 2003 Location: The Underdark cavern of Zagreb Age: 37 Posts: 4,679	I have now done a full comparison between Avast! and AVG, both latest versions. Avast took thirty seven minutes to scan approximately 130GB of hard drive space. On a Barton 2500+ the taken processor time was around 25-45, and in an empty WindowsXP the usage is 5-10%. The Page File Usage was around 530 MB, against the usual 490MB, and it took about fifty or so MB of RAM. AVG took twenty two minutes to perform the check on the same hard drive. Note that during the first test AVG has been unloaded, so he could not have learnt from avast's scans. The processor usage was between 40 and 65%, page file 550 or so and about 80 MB of RAM was used for it. On one of my drives I have a secured and hidden folder with compressed tools, viruses, trojans, worms and whatnot, a total of 17 malware programs. I use it to grade antivirus programs. So far, not one AV program has managed to find all of them. Avast didn't find any of them, whereas AVG finds 4. And they both picked up a small worm I recently got off a friend's hard drive. AVG seems to be the bigger gun. __________________ MAKE LOVE, NOT SPAM!