Effectiveness and efficiency of free antivirus software against malware

Four free pieces of antivirus software were evaluated with the objective of examining their performance and produced functions, both individually and as a group, when used to protect computers against malware. The aim was to determine whether it is convenient to use more than a piece of antivirus software at a time. 64-bit S.O. Windows 7 Professional computers and common utility tools were used for the evaluation. The aspects considered for evaluation were as follows: produced functions on the system, protection against threats, and general serviceability. Additional utility tools (for example AppTimer and BootRacer) were used in order to monitor functioning parameters of the software installed on the computer. Through the obtained results, it was possible to gain insight into the efficiency of the evaluated pieces of software both individually and as a group the latter being more expensive.

• Tác giả chính: Navia Mendoza, Marlon Renné (author)
• Tác giả khác: Párraga Álava, Jorge Antonio (author), Vidal Loor, José Armando (author), Molina Garzón, Gustavo Gabriel (author)
• Định dạng: article
• Ngôn ngữ: spa
• Được phát hành: 2015
• Những chủ đề: Malware; virus; evaluación; antivirus combinados; evaluation; combined antivirus
• Truy cập trực tuyến: https://revistasespam.espam.edu.ec/index.php/Revista_ESPAMCIENCIA/article/view/115