Avira was undervalued in the original sale. Investcorp traded Avira to Norton at a discount and made a big payday for themselves. I don't envy any Avira employee, this company has been played. Norton and Avira? No one saw the synergy there. There was always a synergy between Avast and AVG, and it was always a topic to combine the two companies. Had investcorp not been calling the shots, Avira would have been sold to the likes of Bitdefender, Avast or Check Point, not Norton. Anyway, Norton has been selling at 75% discount in my country through direct sales. This is not a sign of a company rich in cash. I hope things work out and Norton won't just fire the talented Avira engine and definitions team.
Today, I got false positive from Avira, which bricked my PC for some time, until I updated it in Safe Mode and it by itself fortunately restored quarantined system file by itself, which was: Code: AntiVir has detected 'HEUR/AGEN.1104764' in the file C:\Windows\SysWOW64\gdi32.dll . Oddly there is nothing about it in Avira Activity. I had to look for it in Windows Log. Limit for my patience was broken. I'm uninstalling Avira for good. Any recommendations for free antivirus?
Investcorp always knew it, it was Avira who got played here - the original sale should have had a much higher value.
It was not Avira alone. NortonLifeLock with that price bought Avira and Bullguard. Simply it was not published in that time. It was announced just two days ago = https://www.avira.com/en/press/avira-bullguard-announcement-feb-2021-en https://www.bullguard.com/press/press-releases/2021/announcement.aspx https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/avira-bullguard.436246/ -------------------------
I totally agree, which is why I uninstalled it, even with an active Pro license. It just kept getting worse... Even contacted Avira support, and they said nothing they could do. They want to protect all users the same way, and don't want you to disable all of the protection modules except for the AV.
