My Tutorial on Installing and Setting up Avira Personal Edition

I finally finished the tutorial on how to install and setup Avira AntiVir Personal Edition (with pictures) - HERE. I hope it helps others out who are new to Avira with setting things up properly.

 

Great

Thanks a bunch for creating this tutorial

 

Can't see anything, It says Sorry Guest, you are banned from using this forum * Spam*

 

Works ok here.... maybe try again, or another browser?

 

Your IP or IP range have been blocked because of spamming this forum . In order to see/use the forum that has banned you , you need to contact their Administrator/Moderator.

 

The page doesn't work with Opera, Firefox or IE.

 

Yeah. Or simply use a proxy.

 

Or Mnosteele should put it on a forum that works for all.

 

works here too......

 

Works here too-
Nice job, it must have been difficult to make all those screenshots

 

Not a good advise to spammers (not that DVD+R is but...) .

 

Sorry, I get a lot of spammers from certain parts of the world and the easy thing to do is ban certain IP address ranges.

 

Same here.

 

works perfect here with opera 9.6 and IE7 and good job on the tutorial.

 

Thanks, it helped with a few things about scheduling updates. Your link works with Chrome, Firefox, Opera and IE.

 

Using Firefox Beta 3.1b1

http://i37.tinypic.com/2rrwghx.jpg

 

Scheduled scan is useless (if it is must be, scanner priority should be below normal), old update alert/notification should be at least "1-2days" and update should be more often than 2 per 24 hours (don't know update frequency of Avira servers), recursion level should be much lower ("archive bomb")...
Where are "Guard" settings/screens?

 

same here works on all four of my browsers also

 

Please stop hammering their already busy servers... Why would you need your AV definitions updated more than twice a day I really fail to see. Maybe fix your browsing habits.

 

I do not use Avira at all, btw. some AVs have tendency to "hammer" their home servers more often (e.g. every 2-3 hours - Kaspersky by default settings, Norton pulse even often...), also my surfing habits are not questionable here, update frequency should match common user needs/surfing habits (porn, cracks, e-mail attachments, online shopping, social networks etc.) in other words more often...

 

I have Avira set up to check for updates every hour. If they can't handle that then they shouldn't allow you to configure the updates that way. Eset by default checks every hour too and I think this is becoming the norm for security apps to check frequently.


edit: Oops I just noticed you are talking about avira free. I use avira premium.

 

If my memory serves me right, Avira free, only allow updating once a day. I wouldn't call that hammering, rather a necessity.


Cheers

 

to the OP, is there any chance you could make a tutorial on setting up the Premium version of Avira AV? or anybody really, cause im thinking of switching from KAV to avira premium so id like to know how to properly set mine up.

 

That switch would be a good move IMHO......

 

ive tried out avira premium and it seems a bit more complicated than KAV, so if anybody knows any setup guides for avira premium, plz let me know.