For those of you may have no longer with the AntiVirus foreign this, Avira Antivir Personal Free Antivirus. As well as AVG, Avira also offers free antivirus software. With the installation files that only about 24 MB (smaller than the AVG Free Edition is the size of about 32 MB, version 8 about 47 MB), antivirus software is indeed quite good, a lot of positive from various users.The results of a scan to detect relatively more viruses than AVG, antivirus or other, although not a few reports of the virus to detect the error, so we must be ready to decide whether the virus is detected or not. But that makes it more Antivir able to detect the latest variants of the virus. Settings on this later can be adjusted, in the Configuration menu.
Update Process
Like almost all antivirus, Antivir also provides automatic update facilities if we have a direct connection to the Internet. Update on the Manual, compared to AVG, the update may be making for a rather have slow connection, because the size is only one update file size with more than 15 MB, there has been no option for a smaller file. But after the update files obtained, the process is very easy to update.
Each Anti-Virus would have advantages and disadvantages. After using Antivir, following several advantages and weaknesses compared to other antivirus software, especially AVG Free Edition.
- Able to detect viruses that can not be detected other anti-virus
- ntegrated with popular rootkits
- Facilities to enable / non-activate antivirus software.
- The process is relatively quick scan
- Use a small memory resources
- Update Virus Definition relatively quickly
- There are facilities to search for the name of the virus, from the list of
- Ability to add or update the scan scheduler as much as possible.
Disadvantage:
- Sometimes one detects the application / file as a virus.
- Customisasi only to scan the drive, can not untul folder.
- Update size of the man who must download large, there is no alternative lesser.
- Opening the files that contain thousands of quarantine will be very long
- Applications can not be in the Maximize.
Tips :
- If a virus or file a quarantined quite a lot, perhaps thousands, then loading the first time the Quarantine will be very slow. Likewise, when many choose the data to be deleted from the list. Applications may be impressed "hang" long enough. To delete the list of virus can be done by deleting files in the following locations (the default location): C: \ Documents and Settings \ All Users \ Application Data \ AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic \ infected
- All Information User can be adjusted by computer users who install the application
- Scan specific folder can be done with the facility shell extention / right-click on the desired folder and select Scan selected files with AntiVir), or can also drag a file or folder to the desired application window.
- You can combine the two antivirus software in a computer, for example, between AVG Free Edition and Avira Antivir PersonalEdition Classic. The need to be considered is when both detect the virus, then one must be clicked that ignore the other antivirus software can process more.
