Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334

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Editor's Rating:
5.0 stars
Average User Rating:
4.0 stars (out of 1905 votes) Rate it!
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22,634,160
Requirements:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Limitations:
No limitations
Date Added:
October 31, 2008
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Publisher's description of Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334

From Avira:

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, etc. 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. 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. Version 8.2.0.334 includes new Virus Engine update.

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Editor's review of Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334

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.

User reviews of Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334

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3 stars

Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334

"it's good.."

by drablos on January 6, 2009

Pros: i think i like it

Cons: the big popup pro inquiry window...

Summary: Thank you so much for the program.

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4 stars

Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334

"It's easy to use"

by shipinn27 on January 6, 2009

Pros: it seems to stop most viruses

Cons: However, spyware entered my computer and Avira didn't stop it. I had to use SUPER anti spyware to get rid of it

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4 stars

Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334

"seems better than other freeware I've used"

by tess1318 on January 5, 2009

Pros: Pretty quick. Seens to scan most important things.

Cons: After I mamually update I get a popup supposedly from Avira. I'm afraid to click "OK". It says differnt things like can I read your email, bank account etc. Is this supposed to happen?

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4 stars

Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334

""excellent, effective, and dependable""

by afcosetbalances on January 5, 2009

Pros: It doesn't eat up too much space

Cons: I have found no dislikes so far.

Summary: i have recommended my freinds to download

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3 stars

Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334

"out performed nortons and many others"

by rhamilton13 on January 4, 2009

Pros: ease of use compared to may other virus software.

Cons: It works great but you have to reset after it finds a virus.

Summary: I have not bought this product as it takes so long to check for viruses when you have to restart, the program at every possible time it thinks could be a virus but were special files with different file extensions.

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