Avira Antivir Personal is a free antivirus software developed by Germany-based Avira GmbH. It is available in various major computing platforms like Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris. Avira Antivir Personal is currently in version 9. From version 9, the free Personal edition comes available with antispyware and antiadware which was only made available in Premium and Security Suite version before.
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For those who are familiar with the Avira company for a long time, you should know that today's Avira Antivir is an evolved version of the previously known as just 'Antivir'. Before adopting the Antivir name, the antivirus was weirdly named "H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH"; may sound like a technical stuff to many.
AS its name bears, Avira Antivir Personal is free for personal use, and any new scanning engine comes with one year license, of which renewing is just a matter of installing software updates; a very simple license renewal system for an antivirus software. So far, we found no annoying restrictions for the software.
Other than the free Personal edition, the antivirus also have two other versions, namely Avira Antivir Premium and Avira Security Suite, which is targetted at commercial and business user and of course, comes with more extensive crucial features for people in this field. The free Personal version is on the other hand, is adequate for the basic, day to day home use.
Avira Antivir Personal is one of the best free antivirus software. The downloaded installer package for Windows is roughly 33MB in size, small enough in today's standard. Upon installation, it only occupies double of that size and only utilize slightly more than 10MB of system resource when running in the background, even with the AHeAD (Advanced Heuristic Analysis and Detection) enabled. The heuristic behavior scanning ability is important to detect the virus based on behavior, should they passed the traditional first level virus signature check.
In our test, it even beats some of well-known commercial ones. For example, our office which is using the regularly updated PC-Cillin OfficeScan antivirus solution fails to detect the surprisingly common SPR/AutoIt.Gen, TR/Patched.GY.3, TR/Crypt.ZPACK.GEn and JS/Dldr.Agent.VG! This is quite humiliating for a commercial antivirus software but then it shows how good this software is as it managed to detect all four. We even comparing it with 3 other 'big name antivirus software' but those software only managed to find 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Shocking, ain't it?
The only bad thing we found about Antivir is it keeps alerting us about some of legal hacking tools found in our system, even after we choose to ignore it for several times. It's not really a bad thing though as it only show that how good the "Luke Filewalker" engine (a pun for Luke Skywalker?) in doing it's job. Other than that, it keeps telling you to purchase the other 2 versions whenever you run the update, though this only occur once in a day, or once every 3 days, if you choose to update in every 3 days, that's it.
Personal home user will have to bear with the unavailability of webguard (against maliciously scripted webs), antispam (for email), rescue system (should things go haywire), firewall, backup, game mode and some more though. However, you can always opt for many other free tools available on the net to cover these absences. In conclusion, this software is highly recommended.
Download Avira Antivir Personal for free here:
http://www.free-av.com/en/trialpay_download/1/avira_antivir_personal__free_antivirus.html
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