Free Software Avira AntiVir Personal Version 10

Finishing top in terms of popularity among downloaders and recording excellent results in lab tests, Avira Antivirus has proven to be very successful over the past three years. The software suit pretty much covers all the necessary bits, consisting of Antivir, AntiDialer, AntiRootkit, AntiSpyware + AntiAdware (added in version 9) and WebGuard (new to version 10 service pack 2). It is a free fully comprehensive security solution ensuring users remain protected from viruses, spyware, other malware, rootkits, worms, Trojans and costly dialers.

The latest service pack 2 includes certain new features as well as those existing features that ensure Avira competes in a competitive anti virus industry. It offers full anti-spyware and anti-adware abilities, and a re-built heuristic detection system.

One-click threat removal, a feature newly added to Avira 9 has been enhanced to include extensive cleaning of the hard drive as well as the registry in the event of an infection. Settings can be adjusted to allow users to deal with threats individually or as a group. This combined with behavior-based and heuristic detection, which catches undiscovered malware according to the way the code looks and acts. Avira continues to excel in the realms of detection. Service pack 2 also features improved rootkit detection to help protect users from hard-to-find malware.

The scan log has been expanded in version 10. It means more detailed scan reports are now available upon completion of the scan. Avira have tried to provide more information to growing number of users with above-average knowledge of antivirus security. In addition scans can be tailored around users’ requirements, for example if the user is nipping out of the office for 10 minutes then a 10-minute scan can be launched. It operates a multi-engine system that ensures that means scans are fast, efficient and don’t eat up too much memory.

Avira has removed explicit email scanning from the latest version. But users should not panic as the newly opened emails are still treated as files. It means the threat of email-based attacks to users still remains minimal. What’s more the newly added Avira WebGuard offers an expanded notification page whenever it blocks a harmful website. Although there has been reports that theWebGuard is too buggy.

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