Does Avira do anything badly?

Exactly what I feel, it may not be perfect but it has never hosed my system, nor slowed it down, it works with consistency, over the years its detection rate has never faltered, complaints have been addressed by their dedicated team in shortest possible times. The free Avira does have server issues when new updates are issued, Avira updates are big, usually replacing the entire engine so with the huge installed database of free Avira, its understandable that the servers get chocked up. Same thing happens to Open Office and Linux servers when new distros are released. For the premium version, I have never faced any server issue.

So in the end, Avira is not perfect, but it at least strives to be.

 

I am not an expert, but I have tried Avira, AVG, NOD, Norton, Kaspersky and PREVX.

Although I did have update problems with Avira Free, the Premium version has updated without any problems, runs light, and has no compatibility issues with my firewall. Avira has detected and successfully blocked its fair share of nasties, which were confirmed whenever possible by Jotti or Virus Total, particularly on USB sticks. I also run regular scans with SAS, but it has never found anything. In addition, I also run occasional scans with Kaspersky's and Eset's online scanners to ease my mind, but they too never find anything significant, apart from the former finding two false positives.

From the perspective of a security amateur with relatively safe surfing and use habits, Avira Premium has served me well, and I did not hesitate to renew my licence in October.

 

Joy.....
As I can see the fanboys still run rampant knocking anything they can find that out does there fav av. or for that matter works better then there fav. don't knock things when you sit there and provide no evidence and frankly don't even have a leg to stand on.

Avira is not perfect no av is, But as with any av they are working on those problems to correct them. Avira is a solid and worthwhile product and its customer base proves it. they also stand up and take responsibility if something is broke and work fast to fix it, instead putting the blame elsewhere Unlike some av's out there.

Avira and many products that I have used have served me well why there is others out there that are just junk. (people here that know me know what those products are) Avira so far is far from that. and does well in the Business environment as well as in the home.

 

I run Antivir Premium on one of my computers and it works very well at keeping malware off the hard drive. It does not do a great job of cleaning, however, I always keep a hard drive image on hand if the need arises. I would recommend keeping your OS on one hard drive and your data on a second internal hard drive. This way you have more control over your computer.

To sum up: Avira catches most malware BEFORE it infects but doesn't clean very well (like most AV's I've used).

ps. this is probably my longest post yet.
SourMilk out

 

So far so good with my trial, which admittedly is only the SMC and my single PC until I get comfortable with all the settings, which I just about think I am.

The only hiccup so far has been that we don't want to scan files on network drives (we run a lot of shared specialist applications from network drives) and the option in Antivir not to scan network drives doesn't stop it scanning executables run on network drives.

From a certain point of view I can understand this, but equally I want the option where "No means no" and at present the only way to get this is with a registry key - certainly not a show stopper though if that's all I can find to complain at!

 

When doing a scan, this program changes the last access date.

This is stupid. What good is the last access date, if they are all the same after a full scan?

I am told the NIS 2009 does not change this date when scanning.

 

Guess it depends on what the last access date really means. Does it mean last time the file was accessed (read), or last time it was written to, or just creation date?

 

Compared to where we were just three short years ago, we're so much better off regarding the quantity and quality of antivirus choices- both free and paid.
The same is true for firewalls.

That said, I would really like to see a reversal of the trend to seriously bloated "all-inclusive" suites; that is, those that include along with the AV, AS, and firewall, file/drive backup, system cleaner, and other applications that can invariably be accomplished far better with software from vendors who specialize in such tasks. That's one of the things I like so much about the Avira suite; it doesn't pretend to be everything you will ever need all rolled up into one convenient package.
There's a certain honesty to that, and it's something I appreciate.

I really hope the development with Comodo's security suite continues with the emphasis on the antivirus component and that the suite will also include BOClean (I've read that it will) so to make it a security suite that can challenge any subscription service.
I also hope Rising will continue to improve their antivirus and firewall, and develop a truly effective antispyware application which can rival the current best.

There are many other items in my "wish bag" but I'll save those for later.
I realize this is supposed to be a thread about Avira, but such always invites comparisons.

Honestly, i have several interchangeable favorites among antivirus applications and Avira is certainly one of them.
Addressing the issue of slow updaates in the free version; only very seldom now is that a problem.
Addressing the issue of being unable to clean what it detects; not in my experience.
Addressing the issue of false positives; no issue at all once I unchecked "applications" from the extended threats menu.

Summary;
I use it, the free or paid version, with total confidence. With all of the available choices, I'd drop it without a second thought if I had any doubts about it's effectiveness or was being bothered with the program glitches reported elsewhere and in this thread.

I give it three thumbs up !

 

What are everyones experience with Avira Premium's "Web Guard" ?

.... Is there any noticeable slowness on Web surfing when using the Web Guard ?
.... Has the Web Guard been effective, in stopping drive by downloads and malicious web page scripts ?

 

Its very effective as it has basically the same engine for detection, there is a slight delay but not much if you are on broadband on a fast machine, I prefer Avast's web scanner to be the best though.

 

web scanner doesnt give me any noticeable slow downs with its heuristics on High.

 

Yes, Avira's web scanner is quite light in terms of throughput hit, it's among the best, I'd also give Avast's 1st place as well. But Avira's is easily 2nd.

 

Does anyone know, Can Avira's WebGuard be used when using Outpost Firewall Pro 2009 without any problems ? Anybody running this combination ?

 

I am in total agreement with go on your own experience. I am an admin at a company hosting 100 pcs....I have been able to change the AV every year on our network...started with mcafee...had some infection problems....moved on to avg...had some but little problems.....I have tried avira and like features that go with it...like the easy config and remote install that actually works....not to dog out the other av's but this one seems to be operating better than the ones I have tried in the past. Along with the store bought pc's of relatives crashing with norton, kaspersky, and even nod32.....I am currently pushing the SPEED and ease of use by avira....I config it to "scan all files" and it appears 10 times faster than others with only "scanning infectious files"....I for one would prefer to prevent disaster and not have an av that cleans up perfectly but doesnt stop as much.....in my opinion FP's are not bad at all....deal with em when they occur which is pretty easy with avira....although things have not been perfect for them either but no av is....this one just operates better at what I find to be important...

 

I would just like to add, Avira's response time to malware/FP samples is incredible.The last sample I sent was a new threat and I had a reply in 2 hours.

 

I notice browsing slowdown with Avira's web scanner, but not Avast's.

 

Same here. I especially notice the slowdown when downloading large files (>100 MB). It takes a while before the file is downloaded to my system. I wouldn't mind the small performance hit when browsing, however, I frequently download large files, so it can get annoying at times.

 

I don't, but then again, I'm on new hardware and cable, so maybe the difference is less noticeable? I consider them both very good.

 

not only is slower then Avast but slower then AVG in my experience and even though i am using Trend and AVG on turns .

 

The detection of avira free is good but I had big problems with the updates. As you know there is no antispyware module in avira free - I gave it up

Avira premium is better (fast updates, antispyware) but you have to pay for it ...

 

On my older box.. 2100+ AMD Athlon XP , 1.2 Gig, Win XP SP3.

There is no noticeable slow down.. wondering if its your configuration I have 4 box's running it and not a problem with them.

 

@ Fajo
Default configuration for both Avira and Avg (both paid for versions)

 

QBgreen:
on the link you provided:
http://remove-malware.com/anti-malwa...sion-8-review/
Please review it, and tell me where I can get Aivira Anti-Vir
with web-guard,anti-spyware,e-mail protection,(other than standard guard) for free?

If I hadnt been able to see the web-page I would have sworn
Home-boy was reviewing Avast!.

NONE of those things are free in Avira,unless you are trailing
a 30 day copy of the premium.-

 

You can't get it for free, sometimes Avira will do a promo and give away 6 months licenses for free, but otherwise it's paid, as you know.

 

I keep coming back to AntiVir despite the slight slowdown, but I'm now getting a new false positive on Comodo Memory Firewall's cmfd.sys. Says it is TR/Rootkit.Gen. Anyone else getting that?