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AVIRA Antivir 9 released!

Wednesday, 18. March 2009, 07:24:54

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German based security company AVIRA released their new version of Antivir antivirus.
This time version number 9 with many new features and enhancements.

New features include:
- refreshed interface
- improved self-protection
- improved submission of quarantined samples
- improved cleaning of malware
- added adware/spyware detection for free version
- enhanced and improved updater
- faster scanning through utiilization of 2 CPU cores for on-demand scanning

You can read more here:
http://www.avira.com

DOWNLOAD:
FREE EDITION: http://www.free-av.com
PREMIUM/PRO/IS EDITIONS: http://www.avira.com

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Comments

Steve Pifer 21. March 2009, 20:07

improved sumbission



Might want to write improved submission. :wink:

RejZoR 21. March 2009, 20:42

Big fingers, quick typing and netbook keyboard don't go together too well P:

Anonymous 26. March 2009, 13:50

Anonymous writes:

It sounded as though you preferred avast! over the others you reviewed in your July '08 post about free antivirus software. Do you still prefer avast! over Avira 9?

RejZoR 26. March 2009, 16:19

Well, AVIRA requires few hacks to make it fully operational (for hourly update checks and blocking of annoying popup).
Version 9 is much much better. I'm using it on my netbook and on my sister's laptop. Main system is still running avast!.
And now i'm using avast! along AVIRA just with Network Shield provider.
AntiVir 8 was crippled because there was no spyware detection and that was a huge problem for me. But now i'd say AntiVir and avast! are pretty equal. avast! from the settings and functions side and AntiVir from raw detection strenght.

Steve Pifer 26. March 2009, 23:05

Originally posted by rejzor:

And now i'm using avast! along AVIRA just with Network Shield provider.



Does this configuration cause software conflicts?

RejZoR 27. March 2009, 06:04

No. Network Shield is just monitoring URL and DNS connections for known malware distribution links. If one is found, it'll block it (like links that constantly spawn new variants or fake antivirus links).
It also prevents malware like MS Blast and Sasser.
Network Shield doesn't scan any local files on disk, thats why there are no conflicts at all.

Anonymous 25. April 2009, 20:02

Guti writes:

I am in the oposite situation than you.
Using Antivir in my computers, and Avast! in family/friends ones.
IHMO, Antivir has a higher detection ratio, plus a slightly more efficient (faster and with less memory usage) than Avast!

But as you said, Antivir requires quite of fine-tunning to have a fully operational product, not to forget that some features are missing in the free version, if we compare them to the free one on Avast.

Best regards.
Guti .

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