wow had not used avira for a while

[Macstorm]

Originally Posted by zfactor

well been VERY VERY heavily maliciously browsing the last three days on this test system and not one thing has even been able to get far enough to do any damage. yes somethings downloaded and even let me attempt to extract them but were stopped cold. a few exe's downloaded and attempted to run and again were stopped. its been a while since i used avira and im a VERY surprised with these results. so much so i may even switch my long term affair with eset on my own personal machine over.. we'll see not making any rash decisions yet. imnot a person who switched out very easily it takes a lot of time for me to do that im a bit picky and when i get comfortable i dont like to change honestly. i dont mind testing but to actually make the change im a bit ocd with things like that. lol im going to continue my "malicious browsing" for maybe another week or two on this machine and continue to see how it does. so do not count avira out yet for those considering it.

even the firewall is decent not great but decent. what i most like about the firewall is the simple app control eset doesnt have. eset allows either auto or learn (oe a expert type mode) but when set to auto you can not go back in and say block a specific app from the internet quickly and easily unless you are using it in one of the more advanced modes. with a simple app based firewall like this it gets recognized the first time then you can simply open the gui and go and click block since it shows you the apps list. that is one thing i so wish eset would add to ess. im using ess as the comparison here because thats what i run. many suite allow simple app control similar to this but its something i miss when using ess's firewall for people like my mom say who doesnt want to be bombarded with pop ups but yet sometimes i do have her block something for testing or otherwise.

just some thoughts so far dont mean to offend or to promote or otherwise. just some thoughts on how well its performed for me. i do have some actua l test numbers but i know we are not supposed to post stuff like that any longer. my next testing will be panda is 2013 since i was lucky enough to get a lic from pbust (thank you for that) ill be putting that through the wringer very soon. overall very happy with avira so far and i do wish for more of a cloud based addition and maybe better huer. to their suite right now i cant complain because they seem to do excellent as is

I just wonder why it took so long for you to realise that Avira is the best security solution available

[luciddream]

I wonder, if you disable all the "guards", essentially making it an on-demand product only, do you still get the context menu (right click) option?

Maybe have only the scheduler service running so that it can auto-update the sigs.

To me, that would be a fantastic (& light) compliment to Sandboxie.

[Joxx]

I thought this was about Avira, not Kaspersky.
Are there knews about the the Beta? (I mean Avira)

If not, let's discuss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawlty_Towers

[AMIGA500]

Originally Posted by Joxx

I thought this was about Avira, not Kaspersky.
Are there knews about the the Beta? (I mean Avira)

If not, let's discuss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawlty_Towers

yes i quite like basil fawlty lol.
waldorf salad is my favourite lol.!!!

[Brandonn2010]

Have they come to their senses and removed the in-your-face ad for the paid version?

I would probably use it if they did.

[maddawgz]

Just the buy now adds are sending me insane.!!

[zfactor]

for the free one or the paid one?? i ran the trial of the internet security and the only add i get is when in trial mode is asks me to buy now but when its registered i dont get any ads or pop ups at all...also if you look when it asks you to buy now there is a small delete at the bottom. in trial mode i clicked this and the add stopped coming up.

[Brandonn2010]

Originally Posted by zfactor

for the free one or the paid one?? i ran the trial of the internet security and the only add i get is when in trial mode is asks me to buy now but when its registered i dont get any ads or pop ups at all...also if you look when it asks you to buy now there is a small delete at the bottom. in trial mode i clicked this and the add stopped coming up.

I meant the free version.

[KelvinW4]

#1 reason why I don't use Avira

[Trooper]

Ads are supposed to go away in version 2013 though right?

[zfactor]

thats what i read.

[zfactor]

well maybe spoke to soon. installed finally on my own personal laptop and every time the laptop goes to sleep i get a bsod. seems to be a known issue on searching around without any real solution. so this kinda really sucks. this is a clean system, without any extra programs and fresh win 7 x64 each time it starts to sleep instant bsod and have to manually shut down the system and restart it by pressing the power button down otherwise it is totally non responsive keyboard and all is locked up.

[The Hammer]

Engine Update AV8/9/10/12 8.02.10.164 (2012-09-18)There was an engine update.

The version number of the new engine is:
* AV8/9/10/12: 8.02.10.164

The following changes have been done:
- Updated: Heuristic and generic detections (Zero-Day Internet Explorer Vulnerability)
HTML/Rce.Gen5 Discussed here:http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showt...83#post2116783

[zfactor]

well still getting bsod and its def from avira because if i remove it no bsod.. looking more into it now

[Trooper]

Originally Posted by zfactor

well still getting bsod and its def from avira because if i remove it no bsod.. looking more into it now

Did you have any other av's installed prior to Avira? I had this happen to me about a year or so ago and it was a driver conflict with a previously installed av.

[zfactor]

no it is a clean system i think i may have figured it out still working on the issue

[AlexC]

Does the free version still display ads after each update?

[Johnny123]

Originally Posted by luciddream

I wonder, if you disable all the "guards", essentially making it an on-demand product only, do you still get the context menu (right click) option?

Yup.

Maybe have only the scheduler service running so that it can auto-update the sigs.

Do a custom install and uncheck everything except the scheduler and the shell integration. I used it exactly the way you describe for ~3 years. With LUA and SRP I only used it to scan files I downloaded and do a scan every couple of weeks. One nice thing is that if you install it this way you don't get any huge red Xs or exclamation points in the GUI saying that you're going to hell on a bobsled because this or that module isn't running.

[Joxx]

Originally Posted by AlexC

Does the free version still display ads after each update?

I scheduled my Avira free to update 5 times per day and I usually get an ad in 2 of those.

[AlexC]

Originally Posted by Joxx

I scheduled my Avira free to update 5 times per day and I usually get an ad in 2 of those.

Thanks Joxx. It's a full screen or in a maximized window ad?

Or is it something smaller?

[Joxx]

Originally Posted by AlexC

Thanks Joxx. It's a full screen or in a maximized window ad?

Or is it something smaller?

Sometimes it's small, the size of the updater window notifier.
Others it's a large window that takes two thirds of the screen.

I really don't mind those ads, just click close and they're gone. After all it's a free product.

[AlexC]

Thanks.

[luciddream]

Originally Posted by Johnny123

Yup.

Do a custom install and uncheck everything except the scheduler and the shell integration. I used it exactly the way you describe for ~3 years. With LUA and SRP I only used it to scan files I downloaded and do a scan every couple of weeks. One nice thing is that if you install it this way you don't get any huge red Xs or exclamation points in the GUI saying that you're going to hell on a bobsled because this or that module isn't running.

Thanks a ton Johnny! I may just follow suit and do the same thing. Right now I use MBAM Free this way. I have a partition dedicated to downloads, with only 1 folder in it named "Downloads", nice & isolated from everything else. And have Sandboxie check that directory for recovery when I close Firefox. What I do is go into my Sandboxie directory for those downloads before I close FF and right-click/scan them with MBAM to make sure they're clean before closing FF, and the sandbox, and recovering them to my actual downloads partition/folder. It will be nice to have another opinion too, without having to have a real-time AV chewing on my HD.

... but I think I'll wait until this new version is released and matures a bit before I do this. Don't want to install this now only to have to install an entirely new version 2 weeks from now. Because with new major version updates I always like to uninstall the old one and clean up all the leftover junk/defrag before installing the new version.

[AlexC]

Originally Posted by Johnny123

Yup.
Do a custom install and uncheck everything except the scheduler and the shell integration.

Good to know that works, I might try it in my windows install.

Originally Posted by Johnny123

One nice thing is that if you install it this way you don't get any huge red Xs or exclamation points in the GUI saying that you're going to hell on a bobsled because this or that module isn't running.

LOOOLLLL!!!