PC-cillin Internet Security 2004

Performance of PC-cillin Internet Security 2004

In our CNET Labs tests, PC-cillin 2004 caused less drag on system performance than Norton AntiVirus 2004 but wasn't as efficient as McAfee's VirusScan 8.0 . Still, PC-cillin scanned our 1GB drive much faster than either McAfee and Norton. Here are our test results:

Test system Trend Micro PC-cillin 2004 McAfee VirusScan 8.0 Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 SysMark2002 Internet-content-creation (ICC) score 233 227 234 223 Normalized score 100 97 100 96 Percentage of degradation N/A 3 0 4 Average boot time (seconds) 40.8 45 48.38 52.72 Scan 1GB directory; average scan time (minutes) N/A 2.48 4.75 3.59

In past VirusBulletin tests, Trend Micro's PC-cillin has been tested on Windows systems six times since November 2001 and earned its coveted VB 100 percent title five times. By comparison, Norton AntiVirus has been tested on Windows systems six times since 2000 and passed each time; McAfee VirusScan has been tested and earned the coveted VB 100 percent title only once. Previous versions of PC-cillin have also been certified by the independent antivirus testing laboratories at West Coast Checkmark, ICSA Labs, and AV-test.org.

For more details on how we test antivirus apps, see the CNET Labs site.