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just few questions:

  • Why avast consumes up to 4% of the battery while many other av (zoner for example) doesn’t even appear in the battery consumption settings page?
  • What is the status regarding the Jan. 2013 ongoing AV-TEST.org’s andoid review? some other company started to publish inofficial results (Antiy)?
    thx
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Hi

  1. Where did you read this?
  2. I personally don’t have any close information about 1/2013 test by AV-TEST.org

Filip

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http://www.antiy.net/p/antiy-top-performer-av-test-android-review/

In January 2013, AV-TEST starts with regular (bi-monthly) reviews of Android security products, with the first publication of results in February 2013. Internal tests with over 20 Apps are already running to check our testing methodology for the comprehensive malware blocking, false positives, performance and feature tests.

Some interesting facts: the average malware detection rate was just 91%, with the worst product scoring only 61% and the best performance is at around 99%. False positives are not a common problem so far, only one product hit the 1% checkmark (out of about 200 clean apps tested).

In many cases, the performance impact is not noticable, but some tools showed a huge battery drain and required a lot of processing power during real-world usage (e.g. browsing through websites, reading documents, or watching videos). We’re speaking about differences of up to 30%! Anyway, AV-TEST wants to emphasis that the majority of the Apps have an impact of 2% (or less) on the overall system performance.

http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/mobile-devices/android/

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regarding the battery consumption thing, I’m just stating my device readings (SE Xperia Neo V).

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Hi,

I didn’t get any preliminary results this month so I can’t help you with that.

Does the battery consumption stay around 4%? One time readings can be misleading (especially if you have recently turned on your device or had it on charger).

Filip

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it’s always 4%. SE Xperia neo V running ICS.

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Hi,

hmm, I don’t even see it on my device (means it has to have less than 1%). Do you have, for example, scheduled SD card scan or did you update a lot of apps or did you/do you surf the web a lot? Maybe even some battery saving app can cause this.

Is it 4% today as well?

Filip

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see Filip…that’s what I’m talking about… :frowning:

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Hi,

I have discussed these results with their tester and I think their definition of “impacting battery life” is pretty much incorrect (since they didn’t even measure the battery consumption itself, only factors that are related to battery life and based on those factors they are assuming the apps have or don’t have impact on battery life).

Filip