New Avira Premium Security Suite (AntiVir 8)

Chris
Are there any security products you don't have licenses for?

 

I've sold alot of them,

I own 3 now, my 3yr drweb, my lifetime f-secure and my 2 year bitdefender

It would be drweb only, however the prices for the other 2, I could not refuse

 

Same here. Once yesterday, and again today. Kind of a pain in the butt.

 

Must be expensive a lifetime license for F-Secure

 

Odd. Avira v8 for server has been released while the regular version is still in beta.

http://www.avira.com/en/downloads/avira_antivir_server.html

 

There will be much more changes for the regular v8

 

Anyone else here doing the beta test of version 8?

 

yes, but there is nothing new to report. Just a completly new engine, which is tested and improved now and some minor bugs which have been fixed.
New gui and features will follow when the engine is finished

 

wow the last engine was great why did they change it?

 

the new one will be better
they reworked it completly. it is not divided in 12 parts. this will decrease update size, make it easier to update different parts and surely have some other advantages.
the new one will be up to 10 % faster then the old one, and should have better detections rates then v7. we will see this when it's released

edit: mixed up increase and decrease

 

engine was rewritten totally. Right now mostly the new engine is tested.

 

While I don't plan on beta testing v. 8, it all sounds quite good. I try numerous security programs, but always come back to Avira PE Premium for its quality and speed. I can't wait to see the finished product(s).

 

yeah Leo, I about fell over when I saw that. LOL

There are some real goodies that may eventually over time make it into this suite. Bottom line, it is only going to keep getting stronger.

 

So far the beta is boring as heck. I prefer KAV and McAfee betas....they can wreck your computers in the early stages and wreck havoc on some websites but are never boring. Avira beta is more like a Release Candidate or a Public Beta from Symantec. Maybe when we get the GUI changes it will get more lively. The forum (while it has nice people in it and a good mod, responses from Avira engineers) is also boring compared to KAV beta forum and McAfee enterprise with the listserv, etc.

 

So a stable security product is boring. I will take boring and safe over something that will wreak havoc or worse, compromise security

 

well till now. anew engine is not much too see, but it's the basic of the scanner.
and there are much things to come in this beta. the new gui, a backup tool, a webfilter and some minor changes. so i think we'll have enough to test next year.

 

dont worry, Avira certainly is not boring.

 

You asked for Avira to open the beta testing process, you got it, now you call it boring?
If you find it that boring, with your elevated knowledge, why continue to beta test it.

 

i really liked the beta it just was a bit finicky at this time.

 

are there chances for a HIPS integrated also ?

 

Maybe yes, maybe not......................

 

I don't believe anything about Avira's beta testing has changed. It is the same signup process as before any of the comments in the forum and I don't think the length of the beta has changed either. It seems to be a sort of "hybrid" beta testing - halfway between Kaspersky on one end and Symantec's public beta for Norton on the other. KAV's beta is very long and in the early stages is practically still Alpha testing, whereas, Symantec's Norton beta is short and just prior to Gold release. Avira's falls inbetween.

As for my having "elevated knowledge" I assume you were being sarcastic?

As I said, I know there is a lot to come that will probably make the testing very interesting.

 

How would the beta testing be interesting for you?

 

well this is because avira wants to offer a stable betaversion for it's testers.

 

the beautifull part is that the beta versionsb are even more stable than most regular version sof other vendors