Avira Free Anti-Virus - Comments Page 2

>>Avira's Premium software comes at a modest price of US$27

Of course it does, it mostly programmed by people from "second hand" countries, like Romania (eastern Europe), if you understand what I mean.
It's really simple and it's common among today's businesses. The brains of the company stays in Germany, while most of programming division is moved to Romania and India. It costs less because, the salaries are low in those part of the world, and of course, people work minimalistic (if again, understand what I mean). Anyway, I installed this product some years ago and it sucked. I installed it some days ago and it also sucked. So, in conclusion, a definitive NO for AVIRA Antivirus. Use AVG, it's better and doesn't consume all your PC resources.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Yes, some companies do hire computer programmers in Eastern Europe, India and other places. But the money those programmers are paid is generally FAR beyond what they could otherwise make by working in their own country. Seems like a win-win to me.

so far so good but there seem to be a new virus that takes control of the avira anti-virus, then it sets the avira antivirus to detect all .exe and .com files as virus even though they are not.

EDITOR'S NOTE: And the name of this new virus is...? The URL for more info...?

Due to this article, I tried Avira and wasn't pleased with it. Oh, it worked but didn't have aspects to the program that I personally like, email scanning with notice at the bottom of the email, routine daily scanning of computer looking for viruses and etc., and for some reason, I just didn't feel 'safe and secure' with the overall program.

Yes, I know that many people don't like 'change' and I tend to be one of those types of people. But, I just didn't feel comfortable with what Avira had to offer, on their FREE version.

As for Eastern Europe being the place for good Anti-Virus programs, it makes sense to me. So many of the latest Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses and etc., come out of Russia and China. Europe frequently gets them first and gets a 'handle' on it to update their virus databases. They have been doing a great job, in my opinion and I commend them.

The biggest problem Netizens face today, is getting 'zapped' with a Virus or Trojan Horse or Worm while on the Internet. These use to be only acquired by emails, not anymore. So, it is important that the Anti-Virus software program you use, has a 'Resident Shield', that watches the Internet while you are surfing.

About Avira As, I understand, It pre-screens everything that is written to or read from the Hard drive this is what a realtime Guard is suppose to do, So if this is the case then Anti-Viruses boosting about having a separate E-Mail scanner are just window dressing because there is no way a virus can get onto the hard drive without being detected. If you download your E-mail it gets written to your hard drive therefore the guard should screem it, therefore it should protect you from E-mail viruses