Avira AntiVir 9 released!

No they won't. One can receive official notices about upgrading or changes to the engine, via e-mail on request, but you can at any time tell them to stop.

 

Avira 9 is running fine here, no issues so far, and I don't expect any either.. Very nice.

 

After only a single night and day it seems well settled in. The Heuristics is very cool, so much so i have to omit several NIRSOFT utilities from the GUARD! But that's good enough for me.

Quarantine works fine, detections are up to snuff, stability is mind-boggling for a user who is always been furious of AV stalls, or other issues that cost time to correct. Nothing of the such in either 8 or 9 for my part.

A solid HIPS proponant, i don't fear anymore or mind running a resident AV as Avira along with EQS and it even runs with Mamutu added which is a tremendous bonus AFAIK.

Only discrepency if there is one i noticed is the UPDATE slider is showing up a bit too soon at times, but then that might require my making settings adjustments and not a discrepency at all.

I just hope they can fill enough signatures to catch enough malware in their new Anti-Spyware module without fail.

Whats your opinions? I've read plenty of upsides in the majority so far.

EASTER

 

Does anyone know what "Enhanced Anti-Spyware" means? It's included in AntiVir Premium according to their website.

 

Just curious. Which ones? Password utilities?

 

Yes, indeed. I like this Heuristics, its very normal and could lead to an authentic issue, so it's but a simple matter to omit it from the GUARD, a wonderful Read & Write code detector!!!

NIRSOFTS ALERTED ON!
A User Assist View for one.
IEVB.EXE
mpass.exe
Mozilla Cache View.exe
FireFox PasswordView.exe

 

My observations were reproduced by an Avira moderator who has submitted them internally for fixing. http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=85283&b028b1fb

(Apparently the complete system scan profile is a predefined one that includes rootkit search and integrity checking.)

 

I did have a lot of problems with this yesterday?I installed it this morning without a hitch!!I deleted Spywareblaster and it works fine

 

Avira Antivir offers a special uninstaller and/or registry cleaner from their homepage somewhere. And this will uninstall all residue of old Avira products.

However: it will not uninstall residue from other security products. Norton and McAfee leaves a lot behind as everyone knows. So does most other products. If you really want to get rid of all remains you need to change your settings so that all hidden files, folders, systems etc. are visible. Then run a search from search companion with advanced settings set to search hidden files and folders. (In XP it's the one with the yellow dog.) Search for all the programs that you remember ever having had. And delete what you find.

Sometimes it's even necessary to change the permissions in order to delete a file or folder from search companions search result list. This is easily done if you searched in safe mode as administrator by right clicking on the file that refuses to delete and then click the permissions option. How stupid that you need to permit yourself to make your own decisions. But some software manufacturers have the arrogance to try to prevent you from doing what you want on your own PC.

I do this routine every time I uninstall security software and I always do it in safe mode. And I'm amazed what I find from Comodo, McAfee, PC Tools and the rest of them. SiteAdvisor really takes the prize. What a mess it made.

Even the small help-programs that online scanners installs can leave a ton of drivers and file fragments behind after an uninstall.

So this regards all sorts of security programs. Not just firewalls, anti-virus programs and anti-spyware programs.

I write this because all this old residue, that often times only emerge when searched for in safe mode via search companions advanced settings, will and does interfere with Avira Antivir.

Residue form all kinds of security programs that users have had over the lifetime of their PCs is probably accountable for a number of the install problems mentioned in this thread.

 

Since free Avira now has anti spyware it also won't play well if other anti spyware are installed in your system. So make sure to remove them all before installing Avira.

 

ive used Avira PE Premium with SAS realtime before and never had issues of any sort.

 

Arup is right. MBAM and SAS in the free versions without realtime protection are among the few exceptions. The rules are: only one firewall. Only one realtime anti-virus program. Only one realtime anti-spyware program. Since Avira Antivir Personal Edition covers 2 out of 3 you only need a firewall. And since the built-in firewalls in Vista and XP Home are quite useless it's recommended that you disable them and install a third party firewall.

 

Isn't the antispyware the just same engine as the AV, only with different sigs?

If so, there shouldn't be a conflict.

 

I'm running Avira Premium with Malwarebytes Pro as we speak,no probs at all.

 

Often times the lack of conflict is due to the fact that one or both of the anti-spyware programs disable themselves because they detect that an other install is present on the PC. They do that in order to avoid a BSOD. This means that some users in effect are running without any spyware protection at all in spite of having a hefty arsenal installed.

To run a machine with 2 realtime anti-spyware programs installed is plain outright stupid.

 

Thanks for the compliment! I ran it with the version 8 as well.

 

If the AS engine is the same as the AV, it's no different than running an AV only as far as I know.

 

If you visit Avira forums they specifically forbid running a AS along with their premium but if it worked out for you, more power to you.

 

Although I did take your advice and shut it off.

 

You've made the right decision.

 

I am running Avira personal with SAS Pro.I have no problems,I am not sure if I have to disable realtime guard in SAS,since Avira has spyware protection now.

 

Hi cet,isn't there a spyware scanner in ZA Pro as well?

 

I got ZAPro from a promotion.I disabled the spyware part of it.

 

That's what I did on my son's computer as well.

 

running a full scan in a snapshot that was just created so it needs a bad defrag and surfing the net is as fast as anything. Lol