

With TotalAV Antivirus Pro installed, and after running a full system scan, PCMark 10 scored 1,602, a drop of 63 points.

Without TotalAV, the test PC scored 1,665. The bigger issue is the poor showing in the zero-day malware attacks test.įor our in-house performance tests, TotalAV didn’t impress in the PCMark 10 test. The industry average is 100 percent, but that is pretty close and larger antivirus names can often fall a little short like this from time to time. In both November and December, TotalAV scored 99.8 percent.

Results were a little better with the widespread and prevalent malware-detection test. The industry average is 99.1 percent, putting TotalAV noticeably below the norm. In the zero-day malware attacks test, with 331 samples, TotalAV scored 91.5 percent in November and 97.4 percent in December. Performance IDGĬurrently, AV-Test is the only testing house we follow that’s looked at TotalAV. TotalAV Antivirus Pro costs $29 to cover three devices for the first year. The WebShield options allow white listing for domains if TotalAV gets too aggressive, and there’s an option to exclude files and folders from duplicate scans. Scan scheduling also happens in the settings. By default it scans removable drives and archives, but that can be deactivated. Dipping into settings, there are a number of items to tweak here.
