AntiVir Personal Edition 10.0.0.592

Rated 50/50 by FlAshdobe at Jul 14, 2009

The best AV I have ever used so far!

Rated 50/50 by Esquire at Jul 14, 2009

wanderer2005, yes you are right about the free PersonalEdition Classic does not have POP3 scanning, but you are still protected by AntiVir Guard. The paid Premium edition includes POP3 scanning, and despite the occasional advertising popup, the free version is still an excellent tool to have on any home computer.

Rated 40/50 by wanderer2005 at Jul 14, 2009

Antivir PE Classic is a great antivirus program. However, the free version does not scan incoming e-mail. The premium offers POP3 scanning. But both versions offer SMTP scanning for outgoing messages. To the best of my knowledge, Antivir lastest version 7 lacks POP3 scanning. Does anyone know for sure if that is the case? Thanks.

Rated 50/50 by horsecharles at Jul 14, 2009

Nothing negative to report on various OS: outstanding job. The difference from v6 to this one is like night and day. Keep up the good work.

Rated 50/50 by dejavu at Jul 14, 2009

The BEST free antivir! Five Stars!

Rated 50/50 by jon8rfc at Jul 14, 2009

A great alternative to AVG. I feel most comfortable with Avira out of all the freeware antivirus apps.

Rated 50/50 by Oldsod at Jul 14, 2009

Free or paid (20 Euros is cheap)is great! Great heuristics! Great compatibility with other security applications such as firewalls and antispies. Very reliable and a very large definitions database. Read and write is always scanned. Premiun (paid version) does have a dedicated email scanner, and the free (Classic) version does scan all mail as downloaded/opened. Not bad on resoureces either. More spyware/malware capability in the paid version than the free version. No cons, just pluses! Oldsod

Rated 50/50 by alexweber15 at Jul 14, 2009

Antivir free constantly ranks better than most paid antivirus solutions and the free ones too just check out any reputable comparison site! regarding spyware, yeah thats nice that avast can detect it but really an AntiVIRUS program shouldn~t have to offer that kind of functionality... or have a bloated eye-candy GUI for that matter. frankly ive used Avast, Antivir and AVG extensively throughout teh years and Avast is the worst of the pack by far...

Rated 30/50 by Viajante at Jul 14, 2009

First of all POP3 is not out email is in email SMTP is out email, i´m concerned about what enter in my computer and avast besides scanning everything that enters or is exectuted in the pc it scans every single email that enters in the pc what i think is another point in security. The diference is not that much, yes it found more virus than avast but till today i didin´t have a single problem with avast so for. And if is not that important why in the payed version of AntiVir has POP3 Scan??? I´m staying with avast for now. If they include in the Avira Antivir Free edition the POP3 Scanning i might think in changing from avast to Avira. http://antivirus.about.c...arereviews/a/freeav.htm See this test. Adding the spyware results avast still is the best, and one of the major problems right now is spyware. But for free it´s one choice to think about. It´s up to you to choose.

Rated 20/50 by Viajante at Jul 14, 2009

It´s a good antivirus product but doesn´t have POP3 Scan so it has a huge lack in security that´s why i only give s points. Avast is far much more better and much more complete.

Rated 20/50 by sQin at Jul 14, 2009

in free version you can shedule only 1 update per 24hr. new viruses come much more frequently. Premium version consumes more than 40mb of ram. i'd rather switch to Norton instead of this one. But there are better antivirus apps in this world..

Rated 30/50 by dejavu at Jul 14, 2009

Step by step version 7 became problematic! What a pity!

Rated 40/50 by bbplayer at Jul 14, 2009

Best free AV, period. "works but should rightly be called ADWARE/NAGWARE. I went back to symantec as it does not suffer this crippling affliction." I found that funny.. You went back to Symantec lol.. Probably the worst protection you could possibly have.

Rated 20/50 by niknet at Jul 14, 2009

This Product Is Very Popular And Free But Skip Lot Of Trojans And Backdoors In Your System! Im Use AntiVir About 8 Monts And Dont Think About This Problem. SmartCop-Simple Antivirus Scanner Detect 15(!)Trojans In My System! AntiVir Nothing..Active Guard Cant Work! Today Im Use KAV And My PC Is Clean And Running Smoothly.

Rated 10/50 by anomoly at Jul 14, 2009

works but should rightly be called ADWARE/NAGWARE. I went back to symantec as it does not suffer this crippling affliction.

Rated 30/50 by shantanu at Jul 14, 2009

The scanning itself is very good, detected all the viruses that I threw at it...but it juuuussst made my machine craaaawl. :( :( It literally brought my machine to a halt. Also the UI is a bit confusing (for me, atleast). So...detection fine...speed...could be better!

Rated 50/50 by bellgamin at Jul 14, 2009

AntiVir-PE is highly ranked by AV-Comparatives, an independent testing organization that tests AVs using a large test bed of all types of malware. AV-PE updates signatures at least daily, plus it has a very aggressive and effective heuristic. Therefore, it affords good protection against a broad spectrum of in-the-wild malware, including zero-day attacks. AV-PE is among the very lowest users of system resources, and is very stable. On the negative side, the free version's servers sometimes are slow. You can largely avoid this problem by downloading when Europe is asleep -- at roughly 7:30 PM to 11 PM, Central time, USA. Also, AV-PE's *Notifier* sometimes pops-up at the start of a download, with some blurb about AntiVir's commercial version. Blocking notifier with your firewall will NOT work. Neither will changing the name of Notifier's exe. Notifier can be blocked on WinXP as follows... Control Panel > admin tools > local security policy > additional rules -- right click and choose new hashrules -- browse for and add avnotify.exe (shows as a lot of letters and numbers) and set this rule to "dont allow" - OK

Rated 20/50 by bigspud at Jul 15, 2009

after last update, i started getting false positive for a program i run all the time, made a ignore rule in options didnt stop nagging. uninstalled avira, innstalled avast, everything fine.

Rated 20/50 by catchpole at Aug 5, 2009

Antivir is kinda overrated. Pop ups and update works reeeal slooow. wonder why it is so popular

Rated 30/50 by VelvetElvis at Aug 9, 2009

Decent AV app, but it should be classed as ad-ware, not freeware.