Avira Antivir Personal Overview

With over 50 million users, faster and hassle free installations and an advanced heuristic systemAvira is one of the best free antivirus software. Avira Antivir’s interface is very easy to use. The Local Protection and Administration navigation options reveal the Scanner, Guard, Quarantine, and Scheduler features. It has a on-demand scanner wherein you can schedule your pc scan as per your convenience. Flexibility in scanning gives user to scan fully both internal and external hard drives. The rebuilt Heuristic Engine retains the same choices from the previous version’s, and can be turned on or off in part or in full and offers three intensity levels. Avira Antivir Personal updates automatically for new databases of virus and program contents. Infections are quarantined with options for a re-scan, restore, delete or to email the infected files to Avira.
 

Main Features

• AntiVir protection against viruses, worms and Trojans
• AntiRootkit protection against hidden rootkits
• AntiPhishing protection against phishing
• AntiSpyware protection against spyware and adware
• AntiDialer protection against expensive dialers
• Real Time Scanning
• Parental Control
• Advanced Heuristic scanning
• Faster Scanning up to 20% faster
• On-Demand Scanner with profile-controlled and configurable search for all known types of virus and malware
• The resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically
• QuickRemoval eliminates viruses at the push of a button
• Central configuration with user-friendly standard and advanced options and context sensitive help
• Integrated quarantine management to isolate and process suspicious files
• High-performance multithreading function
• Netbook Support for laptops with low resolution

The new version of Avira has made a few interface changes in version 9, but users are not likely to notice any difference in the interface besides a refreshed banner logo. The main window offers a left side navigation with drop-down menus and a central pane for more detailed information. Avira AntiVir opens to the Status menu, informing you of the last scan, last definition file update, whether the real-time guard is active or not. Events logs changes to the program and the Reports tab keeps a history of threats. Core users will notice the removal of the on-demand e-mail scan, and Avira AntiVir is still bad at uninstallation. But Avira Antivir still has most of the must have features that an antivirus software should have with $ 00.00 price tag on.
 

What’s New

• The number of columns in the quarantine manager is reduced.
• Configuration wizard after setup.
• Process protection for GUI processes.
• File and folder protection for AntiVir files and folders.
• Registry protection for AntiVir keys.
• Scanning of locked files.
• Combined display of malware detections and one-click removal.
• New installation folder and registry keys.
• Improved system disinfection.
• Configuration panel: new button “Default Values”.
• Process protection for GUI processes.
• Scheduling on multiple days of the week.
• NetbookSupport for laptops (screen resolution).
• Redesigned visual appearance.

On The Lower Side

The new version of Avira comes with less of its on-demand email scan feature. It also lacks Firewall protection against hackers. It doesn’t have Identity Protection. It also lacks Anti Spam feature that filters out unwanted e-mails. Its daily pop-up ads for Avira’s paid ID-Theft protection software can be annoying to many users, and at times its interface seems better suited to advanced users. Its detection pop-ups offer too many choices and don’t suggest the option most appropriate for the average user. And it has no 24×7 support. All the support you want is only through forum.And its cleanup leaves behind tons of nonactive file and Registry traces.

Our Experience

Avira Antivir detected about 99% of malacious programs. And that’s impressive. Its real time scanning worked at super speeds. Its user interface seemed very user friendly and easy to use. We received False Positive more than what we expected. It used less RAM,less than 30MB. And so it doesn’t slowed the pc much. Scheduler is impressive. We had difficulties in uninstalling Avira. Avira scored 4/12 on our scoring parameters.