Malwarebytes Multilayer Performance Testing(December 2014)
Performance Benchmark

Document: Malwarebytes Multilayer Performanc (December 2014)
Authors:
T.Rowling, D. Wren
Company: PassMark Software
Date:
23 December 2014
File:
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS......................................................................................................................................... 2
REVISION HISTORY............................................................................................................................................ 3
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................................... 4
PRODUCT SCORES ............................................................................................................................................. 5
PRODUCTS AND VERSIONS ............................................................................................................................... 6PERFORMANCE METRICS SUMMARY ................................................................................................................ 7
TEST RESULTS ................................................................................................................................................... 9
BENCHMARK 1 – INSTALLATION TIME .......................................................................................................................... 9
BENCHMARK 2 – INSTALLATION SIZE ......................................................................................................................... 10
BENCHMARK 3 – BOOT TIME ................................................................................................................................... 10
BENCHMARK 4 – BROWSE TIME ............................................................................................................................... 11
BENCHMARK 5 – FILE COPY, MOVE, AND DELETE (BINARY FILES) ................................................................................... 11
BENCHMARK 6 – FILE COPY, MOVE, AND DELETE (FILE FORMAT) ................................................................................... 12
BENCHMARK 7 – FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION (BINARY FILES) ..................................................................... 12
BENCHMARK 8 – FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION (FILE FORMAT) ..................................................................... 13
BENCHMARK 9 – FILE WRITE, OPEN, AND CLOSE ......................................................................................................... 14
BENCHMARK 10 – NETWORK THROUGHPUT (BINARY FILES) .......................................................................................... 15
BENCHMARK 11 – NETWORK THROUGHPUT (FILE FORMAT) .......................................................................................... 16
DISCLAIMER AND DISCLOSURE ....................................................................................................................... 17
CONTACT DETAILS .......................................................................................................................................... 17
APPENDIX 1 – TEST ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................................ 18
APPENDIX 2 – METHODOLOGY DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................. 19

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Revision History
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Edition 1

Revision History
Initial version of this report.

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Date
18 December 2014

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Executive Summary
PassMark Software® conducted objective performance testing on seven (7) security software products, on
Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (64-bit) during December 2014. This report presents our results and findings as aresult of performance benchmark testing conducted for these endpoint security products.
The aim of this report is to compare the performance impact of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware when installing it inconjunction with another security product on the same system. Each test was performed with a single productinstalled and then repeated after installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware in conjunction with that product.
Testing was performed on all products using eleven (11) performance metrics. These performance metrics are as
follows.
 Installation Time; Installation Size; Boot Time; Browse Time; File Copy, Move, and Delete (Binary Files – EXE, SYS, DLL, etc);
 File Copy, Move, and Delete (File Format Files – PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS, etc);
 File Compression and Decompression (Binary Files – EXE, SYS, DLL, etc);
 File Compression and Decompression (File Format Files – PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS, etc);
 File Write, Open, and Close; Network Throughput (Binary Files – EXE, SYS, DLL, etc);
 Network Throughput (File Format Files – PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS, etc);

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Product Scores
As products were not being compared against each other an overall score for each product was not calculated.
Instead, the below graphs show the difference when running the tests on the system with a single productinstalled and when running the tests on the same system after installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware in
conjunction with that product.

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Products and Versions
For each security product we have tested these versions.

Manufacturer

Product Name

Malwarebytes

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Business1.75.0.13

ESET Endpoint Security

5.0.2229.1

Kaspersky Endpoint Security

10.2.1.23

ESET
Kaspersky Lab

McAfee, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

SophosSymantec
Trend Micro

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McAfee Endpoint Protection Suite

Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection

Sophos Endpoint Security Antivirus

Product Version

Agent
4.8.0.1500
VirusScan
8.8.0.1247
AntiMalware
4.3.220
Engine1.1.11202.0
5.2.2

Symantec Endpoint Protection

12.1.5 build
5337

Trend Micro OfficeScan Endpoint Protection

11.0.1028

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Performance Metrics Summary
We have selected a set of objective metrics which provide a comprehensive and realistic indication of the areasin which endpoint protection products may impact system performance for end users. Our metrics test the
impact of the software on common tasks that end-users would perform on a daily basis.
All of PassMark Software’s test methods can be replicated by third parties using the same environment to obtain
similar benchmark results. Detailed descriptions of the methodologies used in our tests are available as“Appendix 2 – Methodology Description” of this report.

Benchmark 1 – Installation Time
The speed and ease of the installation process will strongly influence the user’s first impression of the security
software. This test measures the installation time required by the security software to be fully functional andready for use by the end user. Lower installation times represent security products which are quicker for a user
to install.

Benchmark 2 – Installation Size
In offering new features and functionality to users, security software products tend to increase in size with eachnew release. Although new technologies push the size limits of hard drives each year, the growing disk spacerequirements of common applications and the increasing popularity of large media files (such as movies, photos
and music) ensure that a product's installation size will remain of interest to home users.
This metric aims to measure a product’s total installation size. This metric is defined as the total disk spaceconsumed by all new files added during a product's installation.

Benchmark 3 – Boot Time
This metric measures the amount of time taken for the machine to boot into the operating system. Security
software is generally launched at Windows startup, adding an additional amount of time and delaying thestartup of the operating system. Shorter boot times indicate that the application has had less impact on thenormal operation of the machine.

Benchmark 6 – Browse Time
It is common behavior for security products to scan data for malware as it is downloaded from the internet or
intranet. This behavior may negatively impact browsing speed as products scan web content for malware. This
metric measures the time taken to browse a set of popular internet sites to consecutively load from a local
server in a user’s browser window.

Benchmark 7 & 8 – File Copy, Move, and Delete
This metric measures the amount of time taken to copy, move and delete a sample sets of files, this test was run
twice on two different sample sets;
Binary Files – Common binary system files (EXE, SYS, DLL, etc)
File format - Common document and media files (PDF, JPG, DOC, MP3, AVI etc).
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Benchmark 9 & 10 – File Compression and Decompression
This metric measures the amount of time taken to compress and decompress different types of files. This test
was run twice on two different sample sets;
Binary Files – Common binary system files (EXE, SYS, DLL, etc)
File format - Common document and media files (PDF, JPG, DOC, MP3, AVI etc).

Benchmark 11 – File Write, Open, and Close
This benchmark was derived from Oli Warner’s File I/O test at http://www.thepcspy.com (please see Reference#1: What Really Slows Windows Down). This metric measures the amount of time taken to write a file, thenopen and close that file.

Benchmark 12 & 13 – Network Throughput
The metric measures the amount of time taken to download a variety of files from a local server using theHyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which is the main protocol used on the web for browsing, linking and datatransfer. This test was run twice on two different sample sets;
Binary Files – Common binary system files (EXE, SYS, DLL, etc)
File format - Common document and media files (PDF, JPG, DOC, MP3, AVI etc).

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Test Results
Each test was run once with a single product installed and then repeated after installing Malwarebytes AntiMalware for Business (MBAM).
In the following charts, we have presented the results before (highlighted in green) and after (highlighted in red)
installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware in conjunction with each product listed. The total performance impact of
installing both products is the sum of the before (green) and after (red) measurements.
The first entry in each chart is the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware result with no other product installed.
Where there was no measureable difference, or a negative value (the test results were faster after installing
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware) we have used a ‘0’ value to represent no change, these are noted for each chart.

Benchmark 1 – Installation TimeThe following chart compares the minimum installation time in seconds it takes for endpoint security products to
be fully functional and ready for use by the end user.
MBAM

39.00

McAfee & MBAM

129.9025.30

Symantec & MBAM

283.00Kaspersky & MBAM

136.2036.50

Microsoft & MBAM

121.4049.50

ESET & MBAM

201.79Trend Micro & MBAM

172.50

29.00

50.80

71.50

Sophos & MBAM

564.500s

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100 s

200 s

300 s

400 s

500 s

152.30

600 s

700 s

800 s

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Benchmark 2 – Installation Size
The following chart compares for the total size of files added during the installation of endpoint security
products before and after Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is installed as an additional layered protection.
MBAM

24.19

Microsoft & MBAM

566.50ESET & MBAM

374.78

Trend Micro & MBAM

23.56

573.06

McAfee & MBAM

23.55

23.57

765.33Kaspersky & MBAM

Symantec & MBAM

23.61
1290.04

272.15

24.07

25.05

Sophos & MBAM
0 MB

2106.34
500 MB

1,000 MB1,500 MB26.46

2,000 MB2,500 MB

Benchmark 3 – Boot TimeThe following chart compares the average time taken in seconds for the system to boot (from a sample of fiveboots) for each endpoint security product before and after Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is installed as anadditional layered protection.

MBAM

31.83

Symantec & MBAM

44.67

*

Kaspersky & MBAM

51.62

Microsoft & MBAM

48.30

McAfee & MBAM

37.76

ESET & MBAM

32.46

Sophos & MBAM

10.58
11.19

35.17
0s

10 s

20 s

30 s

*

1.10

36.69

Trend Micro & MBAM

*

13.76
40 s

50 s

* These products recorded no change or an improvement in the test after installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

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Benchmark 4 – Browse TimeThe following chart compares the minimum time taken in seconds for Internet Explorer to successively load a setof popular websites through the local area network from a local server machine for each endpoint security
product before and after Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is installed as an additional layered protection.
MBAM

23.50

Kaspersky & MBAM

28.63

Symantec & MBAM

23.59

*

Microsoft & MBAM

23.50

*

McAfee & MBAM

26.02

ESET & MBAM

24.33

Trend Micro & MBAM

0s

5s

10 s

15 s

*

*

25.59

Sophos & MBAM

*

22.69

*

20 s

25 s

*

30 s

35 s

* These products recorded no change or an improvement in the test after installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Benchmark 5 – File Copy, Move, and Delete (Binary Files)
The following chart compares the average time taken in seconds to copy, move and delete several sets of sample
files for each endpoint security product before and after Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is installed as an additional
layered protection.
MBAM

10.78

Kaspersky & MBAM

11.85

*

Trend Micro & MBAM

15.28

McAfee & MBAM

10.87

Sophos & MBAM

9.15

0.04

0.56

0.65

ESET & MBAM

20.62

Symantec & MBAM

1.44

10.72 2.03

Microsoft & MBAM

20.72
0s

5s

10 s

15 s

20 s

2.67
25 s

* These products recorded no change or an improvement in the test after installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

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Benchmark 6 – File Copy, Move, and Delete (File format)
The following chart compares the average time taken in seconds to copy, move and delete several sets of sample
files for each endpoint security product before and after Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is installed as an additional
layered protection.

MBAM

10.09

Sophos & MBAM

9.64

*

Microsoft & MBAM

12.98

ESET & MBAM

11.18

Kaspersky & MBAM

11.44

McAfee & MBAM

*
0.39

10.97

Symantec & MBAM

*

0.47

10.36

0.53

Trend Micro & MBAM

15.59
0s

2s

4s

6s

8s

10 s

12 s

14 s

1.98
16 s

18 s

20 s

* These products recorded no change or an improvement in the test after installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Benchmark 7 – File Compression and Decompression (Binary files)
The following chart compares the average time it takes in seconds for sample files to be compressed anddecompressed for each endpoint security product before and after Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is installed as anadditional layered protection.

MBAM

16.89

Sophos & MBAM

16.46

Symantec & MBAM

0.55

17.09

ESET & MBAM

0.57

18.91

Trend Micro & MBAM

17.74

0.88
1.26

Kaspersky & MBAM

16.63

1.27

McAfee & MBAM

16.32

1.40

Microsoft & MBAM

23.56
0s

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5s

10 s

15 s

20 s

2.32
25 s

30 s

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Benchmark 8 – File Compression and Decompression (File format)
The following chart compares the average time it takes in seconds for sample files to be compressed anddecompressed for each endpoint security product before and after Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is installed as anadditional layered protection.

MBAM

15.69

Symantec & MBAM

16.07

ESET & MBAM

*
16.52

0.10

Microsoft & MBAM

16.87

Trend Micro & MBAM

16.76

Sophos & MBAM
Kaspersky & MBAM

16.00

McAfee & MBAM

16.16
15 s

0.33

0.47

15.40

15 s

0.21

16 s

16 s

0.50
0.52
17 s

17 s

18 s

* These products recorded no change or an improvement in the test after installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

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Benchmark 9 – File Write, Open, and Close
The following chart compares the average time it takes in seconds for a file to be written to the hard drive thenopened and closed 180,000 times, for each endpoint security product before and after Malwarebytes AntiMalware is installed as an additional layered protection.

MBAM

10.29

Trend Micro & MBAM

125.18McAfee & MBAM

28.77

Symantec & MBAM

20.08

0.02

0.02

Sophos & MBAM 6.45 0.06
Kaspersky & MBAM

16.14

0.25

ESET & MBAM

70.85
0s

20 s

40 s

60 s

5.36
80 s

100 s

120 s

The Microsoft and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware results below have been separated into an individual chart due
to the scale difference.

Microsoft & MBAM
0s

50 s

100 s

150 s

200 s

250 s

327.5

2.31

300 s

350 s

* These products recorded no change or an improvement in the test after installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

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Benchmark 10 – Network Throughput (Binary files)
The following chart compares the average time in seconds to download a sample set of common file types foreach endpoint security product before and after Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is installed as an additional layered
protection.

MBAM

11.63

Symantec & MBAM

*

15.86

Sophos & MBAM

11.96

*

McAfee & MBAM

11.68

0.48

Trend Micro & MBAM

18.22

Microsoft & MBAM

16.24

Kaspersky & MBAM

14.38 1.37
0s

2s

4s

6s

8s

10 s

12 s

14 s

0.59

0.78

16 s

18 s

20 s

The ESET and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware results below have been separated into an individual chart due to thescale difference.

ESET & MBAM

1,230.44
0s

200 s

400 s

600 s

800 s

1,000 s*1,200 s1,400 s* These products recorded no change or an improvement in the test after installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

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Benchmark 11 – Network Throughput (File format)
The following chart compares the average time in seconds to download a sample set of common file types foreach endpoint security product before and after Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is installed as an additional layered
protection.
MBAM

13.52

ESET & MBAM
Symantec & MBAM

15.87
13.82

0.02

McAfee & MBAM

13.95

0.08

13.30

20.89
5s

10 s

50 s

0.80

Trend Micro & MBAM
0s

45 s

0.08

17.06

Microsoft & MBAM**

Sophos & MBAM

Kaspersky & MBAM

47.34

15 s

20 s

1.42
25 s

30 s

35 s

40 s

* These products recorded no change or an improvement in the test after installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

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Disclaimer and DisclosureThis report only covers versions of products that were available at the time of testing. The tested versions are as
noted in the “Products and Versions” section of this report. The products we have tested are not an exhaustive
list of all products available in these very competitive product categories.

Disclaimer of Liability
While every effort has been made to ensure that the information presented in this report is accurate, PassMark
Software Pty Ltd assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, or out-of-date information and shall not beliable in any manner whatsoever for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages resulting
from the availability of, use of, access of, or inability to use this information.

Disclosure
Malwarebytes funded the production of this report. The list of products tested and the metrics included in thereport were selected by Malwarebytes.

Trademarks
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Contact Details
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Sydney, Australia
Phone + 61 (2) 9690 0444
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+ 61 (2) 9690 0445

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Appendix 1 – Test Environment
Endpoint Machine – Windows 7 (64-bit)
For our testing, PassMark Software used a test environment running Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) with thefollowing hardware specifications:
Model:
CPU:
Video Card:
Motherboard:
RAM:
HDD:
Network:

HP Pavilion P6-2300A
Intel Core i5 3330 @ 3.00GHz
1GB nVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
Foxconn 2ABF 3.10
6GB DDR3 RAM
Hitachi HDS721010CLA630 931.51GB
Gigabit (1GB/s)

Web Page and File Server – Windows 2012 (64-bit)
The Web and File server was not benchmarked directly, but served the web pages and files to the endpoint
machine during performance testing.
CPU:
Video Card:
Motherboard:
RAM:
SSD:
Network:

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Intel Xeon E3-1220v2 CPU
Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB ECC RAM)Intel S1200BTL Server
Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) ECC RAM, 1333Mhz
OCZ 128GB 2.5” Solid State Disk
Gigabit (1GB/s)

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Appendix 2 – Methodology Description
Windows 7 Image Creation
As with testing on Windows Vista, Norton Ghost was used to create a “clean” baseline image prior to testing.
Our aim is to create a baseline image with the smallest possible footprint and reduce the possibility of variation
caused by external operating system factors.
The baseline image was restored prior to testing of each different product. This process ensures that we install
and test all products on the same, “clean” machine.
The steps taken to create the base Windows 7 image are as follows:1.

Installation and activation of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition.

2.

Disabled Automatic Updates.

3.

Changed User Account Control settings to “Never Notify”.

4.

Disable Windows Defender automatic scans to avoid unexpected background activity.

5.

Disable the Windows firewall to avoid interference with security software.

6.

Installed Norton Ghost for imaging purposes.

7.

Disabled Superfetch to ensure consistent results.

8.

Installed HTTP Watch for Browse Time testing.

9.

Installed Windows Performance Toolkit x64 for Boot Time testing.

10.

Installed Active Perl for interpretation of some test scripts.

11.

Install OSForensics for testing (Installation Size test) purposes.

12.

Disabled updates, accelerators and compatibility view updates in Internet Explorer 8.

13.

Update to Windows Service Pack 1

14.

Created a baseline image using Norton Ghost.

Benchmark 1 – Installation Time
This test measures the minimum Installation Time a product requires to be fully functional and ready for use by
the end user. Installation time can usually be divided in three major phases: The Extraction and Setup phase consists of file extraction, the EULA prompt, product activation and user
configurable options for installation.
 The File Copy phase occurs when the product is being installed; usually this phase is indicated by a progressbar.
 The Post-Installation phase is any part of the installation that occurs after the File Copy phase. This phasevaries widely between products; the time recorded in this phase may include a required reboot to finalize theinstallation or include the time the program takes to become idle in the system tray.
To reduce the impact of disk drive variables, each product was copied to the Desktop before initializing
installation. Each step of the installation process was manually timed with a stopwatch and recorded in as muchdetail as possible. Where input was required by the end user, the stopwatch was paused and the input noted in
the raw results in parenthesis after the phase description.

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Where possible, all requests by products to pre-scan or post-install scan were declined or skipped. Where it was
not possible to skip a scan, the time to scan was included as part of the installation time. Where an optional
component of the installation formed a reasonable part of the functionality of the software, it was also installed(e.g. website link checking software as part of a Security Product).
Installation time includes the time taken by the product installer to download components required in the
installation. This may include mandatory updates or the delivery of the application itself from a download
manager. We have noted in our results where a product has downloaded components for product installation.
We have excluded product activation times due to network variability in contacting vendor servers or time takenin account creation. For all products tested, the installation was performed directly on the endpoint, either using
a standalone installation package or via the management server web console.

Benchmark 2 – Installation Size
A product's Installation Size was previously defined as the difference between the initial snapshot of the Disk
Space (C: drive) before installation and the subsequent snapshot taken after the product is installed on thesystem. Although this is a widely used methodology, we noticed that the results it yielded were not always
reproducible in Vista due to random OS operations that may take place between the two snapshots. We
improved the Installation Size methodology by removing as many Operating System and disk space variables as
possible.
Using PassMark’s OSForensics 2.2 we created initial and post-installation disk signatures for each product. These
disk signatures recorded the amount of files and directories, and complete details of all files on that drive(including file name, file size, checksum, etc) at the time the signature was taken.
The initial disk signature was taken immediately prior to installation of the product. A subsequent disk signature
was taken immediately following a system reboot after product installation. Using OSForensics, we compared
the two signatures and calculated the total disk space consumed by files that were new, modified, and deleted
during product installation. Our result for this metric reflects the total size of all newly added files during
installation.
The scope of this metric includes only an ‘out of the box’ installation size for each product. Our result does notcover the size of files downloaded by the product after its installation (such as engine or signature updates), or
any files created by system restore points, pre-fetch files and other temporary files.

Benchmark 3 – Boot Time
PassMark Software uses tools available from the Windows Performance Toolkit version 4.6 (as part of theMicrosoft Windows 7 SDK obtainable from the Microsoft Website) with a view to obtaining more precise andconsistent boot time results on the Windows 7 platform.
The boot process is first optimized with xbootmgr.exe using the command “xbootmgr.exe -trace boot –prepSystem” which prepares the system for the test over six optimization boots. The boot traces obtained fromthe optimization process are discarded.
After boot optimization, the benchmark is conducted using the command "xbootmgr.exe -trace boot -numruns
5”. This command boots the system five times in succession, taking detailed boot traces for each boot cycle.
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Finally, a post-processing tool was used to parse the boot traces and obtain the BootTimeViaPostBoot value. Thisvalue reflects the amount of time it takes the system to complete all (and only) boot time processes. Our final
result is an average of five boot traces.

Benchmark 4 – Browse TimeWe used a script in conjunction with HTTPWatch (Basic Edition, version 9.1.13.0) to record the amount of time ittakes for a set of 106 ‘popular’ websites to load consecutively from a local server. This script feeds a list of URLs
into HTTPWatch, which instructs the browser to load pages in sequence and monitors the amount of time ittakes for the browser to load all items on one page.
For this test, we have used Internet Explorer 11 (11.0.9600.16476) as our browser.
The set of websites used in this test include front pages of high traffic pages. This includes shopping, social,news, finance and reference websites.
The Browse Time test is executed five times and our final result is the minimum of these five samples. The local
server is restarted between different products and one initial ‘test’ run is conducted prior to testing to install
Adobe Flash Player, an add-on which is used by many popular websites.

Benchmarks 5-11 – Real-Time Performance
We used a single script in testing Benchmarks 6-12. The script consecutively executes tests for Benchmarks 1013. The script times each phase in these benchmarks using CommandTimer.exe and appends results to a log file.

Benchmarks 5 &6 – File Copy, Move, and Delete
This test measures the amount of time required for the system to copy, move and delete samples of files invarious file formats.
Binary Set
This sample was made up of 588 files over 423,759,030 bytes and can be categorized as documents [32% of
total] and media files [68% of total]
File Format Set
This sample was made up of 559 files over 423,768,758 bytes and can be categorized as PE files (i.e. System Files)
100%.

Performance Benchmark

File format

NumberSize (bytes)

EXE

85

57,785,508

DLL

390

328,727,832

AX

2

36,864CPL

44,218,880

CPX

4

8,768

DRV

21

517,600

ICO

2

215,240

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MSC

2

83,174

NT

2

3,376

ROM

4

73,222SCR

44,500,480

SYS

27

27,183,378

TLB

6

271,160

TSK

2

2,304

UCE

2

45,968COM

118,944XML

176,060

Total

559

423,768,758

The breakdown of the main file types, file numbers and total sizes of the files in the sample set is shown in thefollowing table:
File format

NumberSize (bytes)

DOC

730,278,144

DOCX

4

13,522,409

PPT

3

5,769,216

PPTX

3

4,146,421

XLS

4

2,660,352

XLSX

4

1,426,054

PDF

73

136,298,049

JPG

351

31,375,259

GIF

6148,182MOV

7

57,360,371

RM

1

5,658,646

AVI

8

78,703,408

WMV

5

46,126,167

MP3

28

191,580,387

Total

504

605,053,065

This test was conducted five times to obtain the average time to copy, move and delete the sample files, withthe test machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects.

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Benchmark 7 & 8 – File Compression and Decompression
This test measured the amount of time required to compress and decompress a sample set of files. For this test,
we used a subset of the media and documents files used in the File Copy, Move, and Delete benchmark.
CommandTimer.exe recorded the amount of time required for 7zip.exe to compress the files into a *.zip andsubsequently decompress the created *.zip file.
This test uses the same ‘Binary’ and ‘File format’ data sets as the ‘File Copy, Move and Delete’ benchmark.
This test was conducted five times to obtain the average file compression and decompression speed, with thetest machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects.

Benchmark 9 – File Write, Open, and Close
This benchmark was derived from Oli Warner’s File I/O test at http://www.thepcspy.com (please see Reference#1: What Really Slows Windows Down).
For this test, we developed OpenClose.exe, an application that looped writing a small file to disk, then opening
and closing that file. CommandTimer.exe was used to time how long the process took to complete 180,000
cycles.
This test was conducted five times to obtain the average file writing, opening and closing speed, with the test
machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects.

Benchmark 10 & 11 – Network Throughput
This benchmark measured how much time was required to download a sample set of binary files of various sizes
and types over a 100MB/s network connection. The files were hosted on a server machine running Windows
Server 2012 and IIS 7. CommandTimer.exe was used in conjunction with GNU Wget (version 1.10.1) to time andconduct the download test.
This test uses the same ‘Binary’ and ‘File format’ data sets as the ‘File Copy, Move and Delete’ benchmark.
This test was conducted five times to obtain the average time to download this sample of files, with the test
machine rebooted between each sample to remove potential caching effects.

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