AVIRA improvements you would like

Totally agree.

 

They are already Long Gone according to Avira.

I see questions regarding the Nag Screen once a week

 

I think it depends on the geographical area. I know Avira is targeting South Korea at the moment and I still get them for every update (in Korean!) but I don't mind at all. It is a very legitimate channel for promotion which lasts a fraction of a second.

 

If you are from Germany...

http://www.chip.de/news/AntiVir-11-Neue-Version-kommt-nicht-zur-CeBIT_47492044.html

http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=125741

 

That's because the tray and main interface are 2 separate processes.

 

English thread can be found here : http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=125806

 

by the way about the features , i don't want to do a comapre
someone asked some avast features...

but look here http://www.avira.com/en/support-vdf-history
it's outstanding
there is not av with such update , look the items added

 

It is kind of unfair to base an opinion about the protection capabilities on the number of items added with an signature database update.
Companies can use different methods of signatures. Also why would a company add a signature if it is already detected by a generic signature or heuristics?

To avoid confusion, Avira is a great product, it is one of the few products I really like.
I still think they should focus on continuous improvements regarding protection, detection, cleaning and performance (focus on their core competences). And for version 11 they should focus on usability characteristics. See post 3.

 

Many users do not use heuristic, or set heuristic to medium or low level trying to reduce number of false positives, so I guess that adding of signatures is the most reliable way for detecting malware?

I can't agree more, particularly to "detection" part (although, when talking about prevention, detection and similar expressions typically there is some terminological confusion. ). I like Avira's philosophy. Detection is the most important task of an antivirus program. It is better for Avira to continue working to improve the detection and to be fully compatible with popular hips/sandboxing/isolation software but to desregard detection and put efforts to bundle antivirus, hips, sandboxing and isolation in same software. This is just my 2c, of course.

IMO, major task that lies before Avira is to find way to improve detection, especially the latest malware and certain types of malware, such as keyloggers, bankers and fake antiviruses. GUI improvements are always welcome and, in this sense, Avast can be a good example, but when it comes to improving detection seems to me that the Norton in the last 2-3 years made a very good job with SONAR and Reputation.