The WildList sets were built using the January 2012 lists, which were released just a few days before the deadline for this comparative (15 February). With the Extended WildList still going through a settling-in process, and many items still being removed from the list well after it has officially been finalized each month, we needed to be fairly flexible about what we included. Essentially, we accepted any challenge against any item in the list which our contacts felt to be inappropriate, excluding anything that did not fully satisfy our requirements to be labelled as malware. In the end, most of these decisions proved justified, with several post-release addenda confirming the removal of the items.
Scanning speeds were on the slow side over archives and binaries, but pretty speedy elsewhere, with overheads reasonably light across the board, but especially so in our set of miscellaneous files. Resource use was pretty low, and our set of tasks ran through in around average time for the month. Detection was excellent, even in the RAP sets, where we had to use a slightly older version of the detection data thanks to file-corruption issues with the build originally downloaded.
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The interface is bright and reasonably clear, offering some basic controls, and is generally easy to navigate. Stability under pressure remains something of an issue, with the GUI freezing up during large scans or heavy on-access work, but in normal use all seemed fine. Logging is capped at a fixed size, but thankfully it no longer floods log files with unnecessary data, making it fairly usable. Scanning speeds were a little slow, overheads a little high, with RAM use a little below average, CPU use a little above, and our set of tasks a little slower than we would hope.
Another solution including the Bitdefender engine, this time in conjunction with AVG, TrustPort has been a consistently high performer in our tests for some time now, generally vying with a couple of other multi-engine solutions for the top right corner spot on our RAP charts. The installer provided was reasonably compact for a multi engine product, measuring only 216MB, and ran through in a fair few steps in around a minute. Part of the install process was a period of updating, but after the initial reboot that was requested at the end of the set-up, it was clear that things were not fully up to date and more downloads were needed, adding another minute or so on average to the total install time. 2ff7e9595c
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