Avira 10 SP2 (Free and Paid Version) Review

[jamescv7]

About Avira (Read More)

Avira, a company with around 100 million customers and 300 employees is a worldwide leading supplier of self-developed security solutions for professional and private use. With more than 25 years of experience, the company is one of the pioneers in this field..

As a leading German security specialist, Avira has sound experience in the development and support of its solutions. In addition to programs specifically for use on single workstations, Avira primarily offers professional solutions for cross-system protection of networks on various levels. These include products for workstations, file, mail and web servers. Gateway computers can be managed as workstation computers via a central management console for all operating systems. In addition to the management products of the individual solutions, security programs for PDAs, smartphones and embedded devices are also offered. Our clients include renowned national and international corporations, educational institutions and public clients. Avira AntiVir Personal, used by millions of private users, represents a significant contribution to security.

In Tettnang, near the Lake Constance Avira is one of the biggest regional entrepreneurs. The company has several locations in Germany and partnerships in Europe, Asia and America. Worldwide approximately 300 persons are employed. Dozens of researchers in various virus labs attend to local and global threats on the virus front around the clock. This work is acknowledged, for example, by several test awards with the VB 100% of the Virus Bulletin or by repeated TÜV certification.

Avira for Home Products

Free Product

Compatible for Windows XP/Vista/7

 

[win7holic]

thank you james review to us.
+rep

 

[Deleted member 178]

thanks for the review, you said what i needed to know

 

[McLovin]

Nice review. Don't you still use Avira James? Probably already asked you but I probs forgot

 

[jamescv7]

Currently I'm using NAV 2012 (90 days trail) I will go back when Avira is officially release version 12.

 

[Littlebits]

Excellent review!!

The main problem that I experienced with Avira is false positives.
If you like to develop you own small programs in C++ for example, Avira will detect everything you make as malware. It also detects many other harmless files in KBs as malware. I don't know why Avira doesn't like small files, I can take the exact files detected by Avira expand them to 1MB and they are no longer detected. But once I move them down to their compact size, Avira deletes them. It is too much work to have to keep adding exclusions to files that are still being worked on. The only way that can use Avira when writing small programs is to completely disable it.

I know many malware are in KBs but Avira should be able to detect the difference.
For this reason, Avira just don't work for me.

No other AV solution has giving me this problem.

Thanks.

 

[jamescv7]

Yes, I watched a video which made a code from a notepad (not EICAR) and Avira detects every time was saved.

 

[Deleted member 178]

Avira FP champ !!

they really should do something with that.