The Windows Security Center warning is going to be fixed soon. The boot time slow down is under massive investigation for some time. Update 4...
Jup, or underscores "____", layered archives, archives with password (which included in the email) and so on. I added alot of detection rules for...
true indian, it has a black and whitelist to avoid uploading and analysing of known files again. When an executable is unknown to those lists and...
APC is used for the quick system scan and for certain on-execute events. That HIDDENEXT detection is designed to catch those spammed malware...
Update 3 = APC in Avira Free (release is ongoing right now) Update 4 = XVDF release
Made in Germany? Maybe if they drop the 2nd (main) scan engine...
Update CPU & memory usage + Avira loading time will be much better with the new XVDF format. No release day scheduled yet, hopefully very early Q1.
BTW, we released AVLODE.RDF 13.0.1.62 yesterday which improves the cloud based detection for Java, PDF and RTF exploits (or rather, their payloads).
boombastik, we are investigating.
For sure Avira Free has currently a lower detection as it is lacking the Avira Protection Cloud feature. But one of the company goals for...
The big improvements for Avira came with AV13 Update 20 (APC realtime scanning) and the 2 new cloud detection modules that were enabled in the...
That could be the scheduled weekly quickscan. Try to disable it in the Avira scheduler settings to see if this was the cause. I too think that...
I also think the performance tests are too artificial and don't really reflect the impact on regular user machines. As are the detection tests too...
I am using it on Win 8.1 since the release day of Win 8.1.
The two new cloud detection modules are live now... 8)
For program execution, all files are scanned by the Avira file guard.
7anon, yes we are investigating the slow down but I think it is not related to 14.0.1.719 as users were reporting issues long before that update.
Due to the way how AV-Test publishes their results, it will be some time until you can see the improvements in detection for their test. The...
zerotox, now it is slow because the loading of the VDF is still not optimized. We are about to release a new VDF format that will create a local...
Have a look at the september 2013 real-world test graph from AV-Comparatives. The new AV-Test results are not published yet. I did the first...
The free version does not yet have the Avira Protection Cloud (APC) but the planing on what needs to be changes/improved to also have it available...
There goes the 100% detection... :o
7anon, and 3 more detection modules are very close to be added to the APC. We are just starting with adding stuff (the currently included...
Andreas, yes - but how old is the malware URL in the moment you find it? I did not find time to participate in that URL competition with...
Actually the real-world tests are becoming too easy, soon everyone has 100%. ::) From what I see from our own cloud, the real-world tests...
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