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License:
Free
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Downloads:
19,025,206
- 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
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
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: 3.9 stars out of 1815 votes
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Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334
"Quick scanning, catches viruses, problem free"
Pros: it is a relief to finally have found Avira, after several installs/uninstalls of other programs that created problems...and missed a virus. It doesn't eat up resources, catches infections and basically does well what it is supposed to do!
Cons: So far I haven't found anything I don't like about it. After all the headaches I had with other anivirus programs, I can live with the occasional pop up.
Summary: Avira does well what it is intended to do.
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Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334
"This is the absolute best free anti virus program!"
Pros: I have personally used this software since 2001, with just this free version my system has never once been invaded by any viruses ever, personally I don't mind the nag screen, one click and it goes away, plus it gives free updates.
Cons: The nag sceen is a small bother, but with one click it is gone.
Summary: I love this software as it lives up fully to its claims, I highly recommend it to everyone needing a trustworthy Anti-Virus program, in my opinion it is the best. I intend to purchase the full version myself in the very near future. I'd give it 10 s... read more >>
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Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334
Pros: Malware no getting chance to live in my PC.It was buried in Quarantine and ending their life there.Oh Virus you suck. XD
Cons: Manual update was make tired when updating
Summary: I dont care about advertising pop-up after updating virus definition but it no have automatic update what make me choose Avast :D
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Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334
Pros: Fast scanner,picks up many viruses others don't just all around great.
Cons: No email scanner but I don't mind as long you run your antivirus you should be ok.
Summary: No email scanner doesn't bother me because I run antivirus everyday and the pop ups may be annoying but the are a part of life now so I doesn't bother me either.
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Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8.2.0.334
Pros: This antivirus works fine and easy to use! It also detects certain viruses that other antivirus programs cant! (for example the autorun worm aka W32 which AVG couldnt detect! and i encountered problems with AVG..)
Cons: None that are major, but the ad for the program pops up when updating.
Summary: User friendly and and easy to use!
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