Avira AntiVir Personal

Avira AntiVir Personal by Avira Gmbh

  • Editor's Rating: 4 stars
  • User Rating: 4 (44)
  • Price:Free*

anti-virus scanner Avira AntiVir Personal offers the effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. It detects and removes more than 50,000 viruses and an Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating. The built in resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically, for example when downloading files from the internet. Heuristic scanning protects Protection against previously unknown macro viruses. Note: This free version brings up a daily nag screen that advertises the Professional versions which are available from the company.

FYI: During our review, we found that this program offers to install promotional, third party components. Installation of these components is completely optional Read our policy.

Product Details

Publisher Avira Gmbh (2) Popularity 66
Price Free O/S 2000/XP/Vista/7
Version 12.0.0.861 ...history Requirements None
Last updated Oct 25, 2011 File Size 85219 Kb
 
Addtl. Notes Free for personal use only.

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User Reviews

5 stars38% 17
4 stars27% 12
3 stars15% 7
2 stars9% 4
1 star9% 4
Based on 44 reviews

Latest user reviews:

Solid antivirus but nags for you to upgrade 2 stars by Scorps1
Solid antivirus and I can tolerate the little popups to upgrade but when big ones appear asking me to pick a third party deal that is where I draw the line. After all, I run an antivirus to avoid this type of activity in the first place. showShow review details
Works ok but note!! 3 stars by Philip1 (Read all my 3 reviews)
Having used this program for a number of years and found it keeps computer clean there are a few annoying features in recent version releases. these are, 1. The safe internet surfing feature that wants to install without giving the user proper control over the decision to. You have to deny installation 3 times to stop the message popping up, logging off windows each time you make the choice to deny installation. How about giving the user proper choice! 2. When your license expires and you need to renew it again you have to go through the above stupid safe internet internet installation all over again. 3. The annoying popup ad at the end of update, as another reviewer has stated, has never been taken out. As this may be a small thing it does add to user frustration when using the product. Now I realize that this is a freeware program and you have the choice if you want to buy the program or not but how about freeware from the excessive advertising campaign. I would be more likely to buy it if people like avira stopped annoying people with consistent ads and program modules that give user no installation choice. I will still use it because I still find it effective, but there will come a time when I will get annoyed enough and just switch to something else. showShow review details
Avira has taken a dive 2 stars by gimpguy (Read all my 655 reviews)
What can I say, after years of being loyal to Avira, it's gone down hill horribly. I know about the toolbar and partnering with a very shady "uniblue". While this disturbed me and perhaps put the final nail in the Avira coffin of usage, that's not the only reason I dropped it. 1. The detection rates were high, but many were false positives. At one time, I kept emailing Avira, helping out a bit on FPs or such, but eventually, they didn't care any more. 2. Avira lied. They promised to take the huge ad away, they didn't. (And I had every version newly downloaded until current so I know) 3. Was getting sloppy, blocking needed things, hiding auto run feature confusing people, letting baddies through and taking more resources. 4. Was NOT playing nice with my internet connection or software on my PC. After I uninstalled it, all my (long story) issues just suddenly went away. So yes, I stuck with Avira as far as I could, they have forgotten the little guy and standing on that podium of theirs, they can no longer see us, what the users want. It's all about the green now. Sad, a great AV down the tubes. showShow review details
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