And recently, the company has published the results of the tests conducted in April 2022 on the impact of various products on the performance of the machines in which they are installed. The tests were conducted on a computer running Windows 10 21H2 64-bit with all the latest updates installed, equipped with an Intel Core i3 CPU, 4 GB of RAM and SSD, a low-end configuration, and with an active Internet connection. br>
Testing included file copying, data archiving and extraction, application installation and uninstallation, browsing and downloading, as well as the use of PC Mark 10 Professional. All of this was aimed at measuring the impact of security suites on the overall performance of the system, an element that should not be underestimated, since it can be decisive in choosing an antivirus rather than another. The laboratory made it possible to minimize the possible impact of external factors on the values obtained, so that they were significant.
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Microsoft Defender Total Defense It should be remembered that these are only tests on the general impact on the performance of the computer on which antivirus are installed and gives no indication of their effectiveness as a security suite. In any case, independent texts like this one are meant to inspire companies to do better, and we hope manufacturers will take this data into account to improve their products.