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License:
Free
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Downloads:
22,634,160
- Requirements:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
December 08, 2008
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Publisher's description of Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus
Avira AntiVir Personal Free Antivirus is a comprehensive, easy to use antivirus program, designed to offer reliable free of charge virus protection to home-users only. Avira offers: Extensive Malware Recognition of viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, worms; Automatic incremental updates of antivirus signatures, engine and entire software; Permanent virus protection, with Virus Guard real time monitoring; Install and configuration in just a couple of steps, setup to protect your PC in minutes; Virus protection against known and unknown threats, using an advanced heuristic system; Scheduler where you can set the scanner to make automatic virus scans or updates on your system; Forum and phone support; Knowledge Base with virus descriptions available on web site; Rootkit Detection and Removal; A modularized AV-search engine for improved scan performance.
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Editor's review of Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus
5.0 stars
- "Get all-the-time protection with AntiVir"
For a free antimalware and antivirus app that also runs in your system's background, AntiVir works surprisingly well. Its scans are flexible, allowing the user to fully scan all hard drives, choose a preloaded scan--for rootkits, for example--or customize a scan. Combining the antimalware with the antivirus is a luxury in a free scanner. After testing on several machines no viruses turned up, although several malicious hidden files did rear their heads. The heuristic scan can be turned on or off completely or partially, with three different intensity levels.
The quarantine is extensively thorough, too. The spreadsheet layout displays all relevant information about the quarantined file, and gives you options to scan it again, restore, delete, and more. The scheduler is fully customizable. Definition files are available at Avira's Web site if needed, and the help features are excellent, as well, with a description box relaying mouse-over information on each feature. Version 8.0 has introduced a faster engine and a faster definition file update, both of which are instantly noticeable improvements and yet still a bit slow.
Initial concerns about the real-time Guard protection hamstringing system performance proved groundless. Although we could shut off AntiVir and its Guard, there was no way to remove the icon from the system tray or stop the occasional ad placement by Avira. The Complete Scan is no longer numbingly slow, but it will pauses midscan to let you know when it's found a threat. That's good for killing nasties, but it also means that the scans needs baby-sitting.
Despite these hang-ups and the nag screen that follows updates, we found AntiVir to offer such effective protection with such a well-rounded set of features that as long as the definitions file updates keep coming, this app is our first line of defense.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1905 votes
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Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.337
"Very helpful with destroying my trojans but..."
Pros: It's Intense scan mode makes it invaluable considering there are many anti-virus programs that are very weak. Works in the background so I can still download files from the internet
Cons: Pop-ups on what it has found gets very annoying especially when it keeps showing the same thing that it scanned and means that you cannot scan while you are away from the computer. It doesn't have a delete function which was disappointing.
Summary: It's a good product as its scan is very through and can be customized to an extent but it needs a delete function instead of just sending it to the quarantine file.
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Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.337
Pros: Avira doesn't hog system resources or slow your computer down at all, unlike most of the other anti-virus software out there.
Cons: Can't think of any.
Summary: I would recommend Avira to anyone, and already have!
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Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.337
"Couldn't find the internet so couldn't install"
Pros: None as I can tell
Cons: I am using the internet right after I tried to install the program when it said it couldn't find the internet connection, so you see I DO have a connection but the program couldn't find the internet.
Summary: Again the reason I have to give this one star is due to the above circumstances.
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Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.337
Pros: this application blows the other freebies off the face of the planet.. a.v.g who??? realtime protection that works,, rootkit detection and search that works!! impressive extras, advanced tweaks that are awesome, and a simple no brainer!!!
Cons: haha, i cant think of anything..
Summary: SOLID
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Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.337
"Great sensitivity and all for free"
Pros: 1. Great sensitivity. Picked up a trojan that Avast wouldn't.
2. It's free so you can try it out and always uninstall if necessaryCons: Absolutely none
Summary: Basically I have used AVG up until Jan 09. I switched to avast, but recently a trojan stuck onto my system. Avast could not detect it, so I gave Avira a try as one comparison website stated that it had the highest sensitivity rate in picking up viru... read more >>
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