Avira free 2012 Review

[malwarekiller]

better choices are available like avast free

i yet can give it a 2 and half to 3 star i feel...

 

[Spirit]

Only 2 stars to avira
Man its not that bad

 

[Deleted member 178]

Avira is not what it was anymore...

 

[McLovin]

I still remember when I used to use Avira, was good. Hopefully in the next version that they bring out they will fix on issues that are there.

 

[malwarekiller]

Only 2 stars to avira
Man its not that bad

Honestly,I am not like other reviewers...i look at the ability of a product rather than its features..so far avira has failed the test for me...the big drawbacks are failing against unknown and nasty malware..:s

 

[McLovin]

Well did you do a test with today's malware or a couple of days ago?

If I remember correctly Avira has a very high Heuristics feature? because I remember reading somewhere that it has and it has not the best web protection.

 

[malwarekiller]

the test was made on the same day when this review was written...i do know Thier Heuristics are good...but I do change some things in Avira and Avast when testing them against a pack of malware...but i dont touch heuristics at all...i leave it on medium..what i did change in avira was the threat categories...and what i change in avast is the packers and turn on scan for PUP since a lot of stuff is missed if this isnt turned on...everything else is left on defaults...

 

[McLovin]

Ahh, okay I see. Well Great review. Will have to give Avira ago again, or wait till the next version is out.

 

[bitbizket]

Only 2 stars to avira
Man its not that bad

Honestly,I am not like other reviewers...i look at the ability of a product rather than its features..so far avira has failed the test for me...the big drawbacks are failing against unknown and nasty malware..:s

I agree with you. This has always been an issue with their ProActive which have been proven before. They are doing something to fix this.

Thanks for the review.

 

[Plexx]

I am still curious to see some of the bad points etc.

However, from a user who has not used Avira before point of view, when reading your review, there is not much base to backup your statements.

How did Avira fail the test on you, what kind of test, was the overall usability of the product that bad and why?
These are things that any person would ask when reading and to be honest I don't see the answers there.

Just my opinion.

 

[malwarekiller]

In avira,

1.No feature to protect against malware it doesnt know about[running the malware inside pack after on-demand scan]... completely fails in defending just with Heuristics and signatures.

2.Let through nasty ransomware.

3.toolbar slows down browsing.

Prevention tests with links: 9/10[let through ransom malware] ,0-day test result: Fail cannot even give it 1% of result...avast 7 sandboxed many of unknown stuff i threw at it,On-demand test: 86% to 90%

 

[Plexx]

isnt there an option to install avira without the toolbar? I know someone here did it.

Honestly haven't explored Avira that much so I suppose that would be an interesting test

 

[McLovin]

3.toolbar slows down browsing.

Does the toolbar have an option where it blocks websites that are bad? Because I know that with Trend it does that.

 

[Ibrad]

If I remember correctly the toolbar does have malware url filtering connected to it but not 100% sure.

 

[bogdan]

The Ask-based toolbar ads Web Protection/URL Filtering (more info here).

 

[malwarekiller]

Yes! there is a option Not to install toolbar...but still many novice users will blindly install the toolbar

 

[McLovin]

So it's sort of like Trend, it's Toolbar does do filtering. Personally if people that want extra protection, then they could install it. People that know what they are doing they might not have to install it.

 

[ZeroDay]

Yes! there is a option Not to install toolbar...but still many novice users will blindly install the toolbar

If I remember correctly the box for the toolbar on the Avira install is unchecked by default, therefore a user would have to move from the 'next' button to deliberately check the toolbar installation box.

 

[McLovin]

If I remember correctly the box for the toolbar on the Avira install is unchecked by default, therefore a user would have to move from the 'next' button to deliberately check the toolbar installation box.

Hmm, well it should be ticked by default I think. Gives people that just want an AV some extra protection.

 

[ZeroDay]

If I remember correctly the box for the toolbar on the Avira install is unchecked by default, therefore a user would have to move from the 'next' button to deliberately check the toolbar installation box.

Hmm, well it should be ticked by default I think. Gives people that just want an AV some extra protection.

After all the outrage caused by the Avira Ask toolbar I can see why they left it as an opt in.