Avira antivirus

As already reported Avira dated 15 April 2008 yesterday (Company News), anti-virus Avira has released their new version with new engine AntiVir Virus Scanner Scan Engine 8. This version is not called by PersonalEdition Classic again, but the Avira Antivir Personal. They claimed that the new version of this engine increases performance up to 20%. Also Avira Antivir 8 version of this, also appeared with GUI (Graphical User Interface) is new. Or additional facilities in version 8 is as follows: * GUI (interface) new * Anti-virus a new engine, improving performance up to 20%. * Update Process Easier * Failsafe System Facilities still provide protection even if update failed

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For those of you may already be familiar with this AntiVirus, Avira Antivir PersonalEdition Classic. As well as AVG, Avira also offers free antivirus. With the installation files that only around 17 MB (less than AVG Free Edition which is about 32 MB), this antivirus is pretty good, a lot of positive response from many users. Relative scan detects more viruses than AVG or other anti-virus, even though not a few reports on the error detect the virus, so we must always be ready to decide whether the virus detected or not. But it makes Antivir better able to detect the latest virus variants. Setting about that later can be adjusted, in the Configuration menu.
Process Update

Like almost all antivirus, Antivir also provide automatic updates when we have a direct connection to the Internet. About Manual Update, compared to AVG, the update process may be somewhat inconvenient for those who have a slow connection, because the size of the update only one file with size more than 15 MB, up to now there is no option for smaller files. But after the update files available, the update process is very easy.

Each Anti-Virus will have strengths and weaknesses. After using Antivir, here are some pros and cons compared to other anti-virus, especially AVG Free Edition.

Pros:

Able to detect viruses that can not be detected by other anti-virus

Rootkit detection is integrated with

Convenience to activate / non-enable the antivirus.

The process is relatively quick scan

Use of small memory resources

Update Virus Definition relatively fast

There are facilities to search for the name of the virus, from the list

Scheduler scans able to add or update as much as possible.

Weaknesses:


Sometimes one detects the application / file as a virus.

Customisasi scan just to drive, can not untul folder.

Update the size of which must be manually downloaded large enough, yet there are smaller alternatives.

Opening a file that contains thousands of quarantine will be very long

Applications can not maximize.

Tips


If the virus or quarantine the file quite a lot, maybe thousands, then the first loading Quarantine menu will be very slow. Likewise, when selecting a lot of data to be removed from the list. Applications may be impressed "hang" for a long time. To remove the virus list could be done by deleting the files in the following location (default location):

C: \ Documents and Settings \ All Users \ Application Data \ AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic \ Infected

Description All Users can be adjusted by a computer user who installed the application


Scan a particular folder can be done with a shell extention facilities / right click on the desired folder and select Scan selected files with AntiVir) or can also drag folders or files to the desired application window.

You can combine the two antivirus in a single computer, for example between AVG Free Edition and Avira Antivir PersonalEdition Classic. Noteworthy is when both of them detect the virus, then one must be clicked in order to ignore the other antivirus can process more information

There are several differences between the versions Free facilities with paid versions (Premium and the Security Suite). What are the distinguishing features can be seen http://www.free-av.com/en/products/1...antivirus.html

Download Avira Antivir Personal (21.3 MB)
http://www.free-av.com/en/download/1...antivirus.html