Avira Scan Speed........

http://www.clubic.com/afficher-en-plein-ecran-1679498.html


Looks like Avira not only excels in detection and removal, it also excels in scan speed.

 

You betcha! (Pardon the Palinesque exclamation!) Read this: http://www.avira.com/en/company_news/avira_speeds_up_its_virus_scanner.html

 

Calling some help here, someone's suffering the deadly Palin fever...


Anyway, click here for the full article.

 

I see the irony with NOD32...

 

go away for this result look here http://www.av-comparatives.org avira is the king

~Link to the AV-Comparative site only, not the test results. - Ron~

 

Oy - Sarah is my pin-up!

 

I switched from NOD32 2.7 to Avira after my license expired and I tested Avira for a month. I also tested KAV 2009, Norton AV 2009, Bitdefender 2008, and NOD32 3.0.

I have to say that Avira blew me away as far as scan speed even before the latest update. My system feels almost as light as it did on NOD. I would recommend anyone on the fence to give it shot for 30 days - you wont be disappointed.

 

OT: What Opera skin are you using?

 

Well done Avira.
With the latest Update the scan is so fast, very good improvements, i just hope they keep the god job up even in other improvements

 

http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=7308

 

They say: High memory consumption for Avira 8. I don't think so...
And they're mixing detection rates for Avira free (no spyware\adware) with competition having these options.

Regarding speed, that is indeed a fast AV.

 

x 2.

NOD32 hosed my Winsock and Outlook 2007 upon uninstall, but now with a bit of manual fiddling I'm running Avira and what a nice experience it is. More like NOD32 used to be back in the day. Highly recommended.

 

Avira scans so fast that I really doubt if it scans thoroughly.I hope it doesn't cheat on me.

 

It scans fast because of its efficient engine and if it didn't scan thoroughly, doubt it would consistently make it to the top of detection charts.

 

that's not what these peeps say. they give avira a big FAIL
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/2008/10

 

Helps to investigate the reasons... IOW, these test results (oh noes, big FAIL!111!) without context give uninformed people a totally wrong impression of the products.

 

LOL! Big fail for FPs, well tell you what, would rather live with FPs and best detection than take a so called AV with fewer detection.

 

It seems to me Avira doesn't have FPs as many as reported,while avast has many in my experience.

 

None of them are good.

A FP can also be very dangerous.

Hopefully AntiVir developers will reduce its FP's...

 

Avira is indeed very fast at scanning. I trialed Avira premium av for a month on 3 different computers and liked it well enough to buy a year for 3 computers. On only one computer I had 2 false positives with heuristics on high, but that is far from making it a deal breaker as I have had false positives with other av's also. Yesterday Avira had an update problem with their servers being overwhelmed, but I have experienced this to with other av's so I won't worry too much.

 

Now avira will scan even faster thanks to the new database cleanup http://www.avira.com/en/company_news/avira_clears_out_recognition_files.html

They converted more and more specific signatures to generic ones, resulting in a ~700,000 signature count decreasing.

 

An FP is less dangerous than not detecting and getting infected.

 

Hi!

I agree with you, the engine of Avira is fast. But why is it fast? Because it doesn't scan files(particularly .exe files) entirely. Avira scans a few files(or 1 file) in an .exe file, but Avast(for instance) scans more more files than Avira does.

Besides, Avira doesn't scan the whole parts of a file(especially MP3 and video files). It scans these very quickly. MP3 and video files generally don't contain malicious codes, but they may contain. So, it is important to be scanned the whole parts of the file. For example, Avast scans the whole parts(when the scan type is thorough scan).

I gave you examples from Avast, because I'm an Avast user. But I will switch to GDATA soon.

As a result I can say that Avira should put more options about the scan types. There should be an option such as thorough scan at least. Now it has no option about that, therefore I don't consider using Avira at all. It isn't a good thing that an AV engine is fast due to these reasons which I mentioned above.

 

Scanning only infectable parts is much better than scanning a whole file, and doesn't produce any decrease in detection.

 

Yes, generally that's true. But there should be an option about that. So users can decide it.

What about the other subject? Avira doesn't check the all files in .exe files. This a very big problem. Because of this problem, Avira may not detect a virus or viruses in an .exe file. There exist some examples of this situation on other security forums, and I also have some. Avira scans a few files or only one file(as I said before) in an .exe file, even the file includes lots of files in it.