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Thomas, Remya
- Performance Investigation of Antivirus-A Comparative Analysis
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Remya Thomas
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M. Nachamai
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1 Department of Computer Science, Christ University, Bangalore, IN
1 Department of Computer Science, Christ University, Bangalore, IN
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Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol 10, No 1 (2017), Pagination: 201-206Abstract
Antivirus as name implies prevent the devices such as computers, mobiles and pen-drive from viruses. All gadgets which interact with open network are prone to virus. Virus is a malicious software program which replicates by copying its code multiple times or by infecting any computer program (like modifying the existing program) which can affect its process. Virus perform harmful task on affected host computer such as possessing on hard disk, CPU time, accessing private information etc. This paper specifies the performance of (McAFee, Avast, Avira, Bitdefender, Norton) antivirus and its effectiveness on the computer. The performance is tested based on the time acquired by each antivirus to act on a computer. The parameters used to analyze the performance are quick scan, full scan and custom scan with respect to time. Through the analysis Bitdefender performance is better than other selected antivirus.Keywords
Antivirus, Computer Scan, Virus, Performance Testing.References
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