Introduction:

No wonder, the Avira’s AntiVir has been on the top of the freeware security solutions for several years, and the latest anti-spyware protection as well as several additional advanced security features will surely take its rating sky-high. Before we review the package, let us look at some of its noticeable specs.

Salient Features:

• Extensive Malware Recognition of malicious Trojans, viruses, backdoor programs, as well as harmful worms
• Permanent virus protection
• Virus protection against all sorts of malicious attacks and potential threats, with the help of an advanced heuristic system
• Auto-update of antivirus engine, signatures as well as the package as a whole
• On-the-fly installation and configuration
• Virus Guard real time monitoring
• Setup to protect your PC in minutes
• Scheduler to schedule daily/weekly scans beforehand
• Forum and phone support
• Knowledge Base with virus descriptions available on web site
• Rootkit Detection and Removal
• Modularized AV-search engine for easier and better scanning

Review:

Fully loaded with top notch security features the latest version 9 brings about a different user-interface, though there aren’t any drastic changes like AVG made during the 7.5 to the 8.0 transition last year. You can schedule regular scans, apart from scanning your PC, a particular hard drive, removable drive or a CD/DVD or other external media. Sure thing, the package is still a bit heavy on the PC resources, but the overall combination is worth your applause, as you can customize these scans, export the history of the reports, and do lot more than you’d expect.

What’s more, if you’re upgrading from an earlier version, the new improvised heuristic engine will retain all the stats, preferences and other info, helping you to carry forward effortlessly, without any additional efforts.

Looking at its efficiency to detect the spy-ware and mal-ware, full credits to Avira, to maintain their status in terms of security, and surely the latest version is bound to live up to the users’ expectations, as the earlier versions did. The overall internal security has been improved noticeably, though the painful un-installation part is still unfortunately existent on the package as ever before.
All in all, the quick mouse-over info display, extensive protective features, better scheduling provisions, and the revived heuristic engine make it a great package, and definitely well worth a try.

Download link
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