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19 out of 19 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8
"The best free virus protection on the market"
Pros: Simple to use, great detection rate, and daily updates.
Cons: The huge nag screen asking you to purchase, that pops up during daily updates, will drives you crazy.
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11 out of 13 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8
Pros: This version doesn't appear to be as complex as previous versions.
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29 out of 34 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8
"Good but flawed compared with the competition"
Pros: Excellent user interface, small system footprint. Fast scanning times, excellent detection record in all AV comparative tests, very fast definition response time to newly identified threats.
Cons: Painfully slow update procedure (one suspects it may deliberately be throttled to encourage paying for the premium version), rather complicated to set initial configuration, scheduling, etc. Very annoying emphasis on selling the paid-for version, from the prominent "Free Version" labelling on the interface to the intrusive nag screens that accompany updates. If you compare all this with avast! and AVG, the otherwise technically superb Avira product doesn't come through too well. Oh, and there's no POP3 or SMTP scanning in the free version, so unless you stick to Gmail or another web-based service, there's no desktop level email protection.
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11 out of 13 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8
Pros: Best & Free, much more than AVG Free 8
Cons: Resident shield is effective, Install this and forget about VIRUSES.
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23 out of 26 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8
Pros: This found 4 viruses that avast 4.8 missed, and found viruses on two different ipods and deleted them without fuss or bother.
The free version doesn't state whether it protects email clients.
Very fast scan.
Cons: The updates are painfully slow, it took nearly two hours to update the definitions, delaying updates is a risk on it's own and avira really need to address this issue,an issue thats been ongoing for a few years now.
Shame really and for this reason I will be trying something else.
The retail version updates very fast indeed and has more features, so the very least avira could do is give a few more update servers for the free version.
This is also "Nagware" asking you to upgrade to the retail version.
Come on avira sort your updates out, your losing out to shoddier antivirus programs like avast and avg.
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