Antivir free classic VERSUS paid premium

Hi all

Where to find a comparison between AntiVir free Classic & paid Premium ?

I checked Avira's website , but nothing was mentioned there!

Any advise ?

 

http://www.free-av.com/

this is the website for the classic version but it tells you the advantages of the premium version near the bottom hope this helps

lodore

 

I think the main advantages are adware/spyware detection and true email scanning.

I have to point out. I've heard the Classic version does manage to detect SOME, if minimal, spyware/adware, is this true?

 

I have used SpyBot S&D v1.3 (1.4 is stronger) latest Spyware Blaster and AdAware for two years since buying this WinXP(SP2) Dell D800 and I use Dialup 100+ hours a month and WiFi or DSL 'on the road' 50+ hours a month.

Shortly after replacing Norton AntiVirus and Firewall with ZA (free) and AntiVir (free) I ran the first Ewido Scan and it removed 13,000+ items of malware (mostly 'tracking cookies').

Now, since eight months of AntiVir, I have run four more Ewido Scans and they have detected zero malware.

AntiVir Classic (free) has "Extended threat catagories" box:

This would be the "...SOME, if minimal, spyware/adware..."

It would be a good practice to also have several of the better (some really 'worse' out there too) AntiSpyware/Adware applications running, even if you have AntiVir Premium.

 

supposedly premium users get better update servers, but i havent tried the classic version of antivir so i cant judge that for myself.

 

According to the virus.gr results the difference between the Classic and the Premium version was:
0.05% (1) Windows Virus
21.15% (1643) Malware samples (Adware, DoS, Constructors, Exploit, Flooders, Nukers, Sniffers, SpamTools, Spoofers, Virus Construction Tools, Droppers, PolyEngines.)
0.14% (111) Trojans/Backdoors

 

Anyone have High CPU with AVir..i seem'd to with the Premium,maybe its how i set it up wrong , duno if it was the mail side of things... i noticed it scans like Nod32 files in background, is the free version lighter?.... there's no folder exclusion in it is there?.... Avast still seem's the lightest for me but i do have the premium of antivir maybe i set it up wrong or something... MD

 

When I used AntiVir PE Classic 7 (Now I'm using AOL AVS) I didn't have any problems with the updates

Yes, there is folder exclusions in the Classic Version. Just select a folder instead of a file.