There is no difference between ESET products in terms of performance when comparing the same protection features. As for LiveGuard, access to suspicious downloaded files may be blocked for a couple of seconds or minutes upon download if you have LiveGuard set to temporarily block execution until the result of analysis is received, however, this is not what should be called a performance impact. Moreover, you can set up LiveGuard to allow execution immediately after download.
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