

It’s far simpler to trick you into clicking on a link in a WhatsApp message than to code a sophisticated virus. They also know that you – the user – are the easiest target. It’s your money and identity that the criminals want: they don’t usually create viruses and other malware for fun. which breaks down into 100 percent protection against prevalent malware and 96 percent against zero-day attacks.Modern security software should warn you of fake websites (and links in messages that lead to these sites) which are after your login details, personal information and your money. Under Protection, which tests its ability to detect widespread and zero-day malware, it scored 5.0/6.0. (See also:Ģ015’s best antivirus for PC and laptop UK.) G-Data Internet Security 2015 review: antivirus performance It slowed the system down by 3s overall, which was a second less than the average for the test group. AV-Test scored the software at 4.5/6.0 in its Performance category, which looks at the influence of the software on performing regular tasks.


The load put on a typical system by scanning under G Data is light, with just a 20 per cent increase in the file copy time in our test. Repeating the test examined the same number of files, but this time in just 53s.

It took 50 minutes 23 seconds to scan our 50GB file basket, but only examined 8,753 files, giving a scan rate of just 2.90 files/s, one of the lowest we’ve measured. G-Data Internet Security 2015 review: system performanceĭespite CloseGap, the performance of the G Data scanner was quite poor on our tests. Much of the setup is automatic, though, and it can be installed as a load and forget application. The interface is very straightforward and easy to use, with five large icons at the top of its control window, each of which leads to a pane with setting and status information. G-Data Internet Security 2015 review: interface
