More AntiVir Updates!

A better analogy would be: if the turn lights are broken it´s OK because you still can turn

 

or a better one would be, "if something is broke, fix it" something which antivir fail to do time and time again.

 

They've certainly been busy 'fixing' their scanning engine; at the moment it's arguably the best in the industry, taking into account scanning speed, detection and powerful heuristics coupled with low false positives. Hopefully they'll fix these recent problems as soon as they say they will, for a freebie it's an excellent piece of software.

Londonbeat

 

ill agree with that for sure,about their engine (Although,scan speeds were not as good on my machine as av-comp said, panda was by miles a faster scan speed)

 

Per the troubles as of late, What AV hasn't had issues? Not trying to sound like a fanboy, but any company that can achieve what Avira has achieved with AntiVir in 2006 will be "on it". The competition as we all know is several layers above fierce!

 

well lets see nod32 sometimes has update issues
antivir has update issues sometimes as pointed out in this thread.
kaspersky had a few update issues corrupting the bases.
so it can happern to any vendor!
lodore

 

True, Lodore, but Avira does not seem to be able to fix it. The problems some of us have mentioned have gone on for weeks and months. That is not the case with other AVs in my experience.

Just look on the Avira forums, and see that tray icon, guard not starting, and updates are ongoing problems. Despite any statement that they are fixed, the posts do not bear that out.

Both you and I liked Avira. It is light, effective, and the price is right. But there is a limit to how much I am willing to fool with trying to correct problems on an AV when there are so many that don't give me trouble. One is F-Secure. I wonder why I mentioned that particular one

Best,
Jerry

 

@jerry,
i do agree that they should of fixed those problems.
i havent had any problems with kaspersky eiether.
well the proactive defense malfunctioned today but I rebooted and went back to normal.
but other than that problem kaspersky has been working great.
I liked the 2005 version of f-secure but the 2006 version was to heavy.
the 2007 version was lighter but still slow and I hated the HIPS module.
but i worked out the other day on my nextdoor neighbours first laptop which is a core duo 2.0ghz and it had the bloated macaffe 2005 version and once i removed all the Google software it was fine and fast.
so i think i didnt notice that f-secure was bloated intill my pc got older.
at first my pc was mega fast because it was new now its 2 years old.
what is the spec of my laptop?
lodore