Webroot Achieves Highest Ranking in Antimalware Software Performance Tests, Outperforming the Competition in New Research by PassMark
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Webroot earned top ratings in the test conducted by PassMark Software, an independent software testing lab, in a major review of performance benchmark testing for eight of the latest endpoint protection software products. The products were rated according to 13 core performance metrics using the Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit operating system. Webroot SecureAnywhere Business – Endpoint Protection received the highest overall scores in their respective categories. Specifically, PassMark Software found that Webroot SecureAnywhere – Endpoint Protection installed faster, scanned faster, booted faster, used less memory and required less disk space then every major competitor.
Top report findings:
- Webroot SecureAnywhere installed in just 16 seconds on average and the quickest competitor took 99 seconds, while the slowest took a dismal 1,183 seconds to install.
- Webroot SecureAnywhere completed a scheduled scan in an average of 23 seconds compared to the competition that averaged 635 seconds.
- Webroot SecureAnywhere scanned six times faster than the quickest scheduled scan time set by a competitor, and 92 times faster than slowest scheduled scan time set by another competitor.
- Webroot SecureAnywhere uses only 15.3 percent of CPU resources when scanning a mixed set of media, system and Microsoft® Office files of over 5GB, compared to other vendor products that use on average 27.9 percent of CPU resources.
- Webroot SecureAnywhere uses 0.4MB of RAM memory when the system is idle compared to the competitors' average of 73.3MB, and up to 94% more memory.
