![]() ![]() According to the magazine, "Of the seven free programs Consumer Reports tested this year, the top three no-cost performers from last year performed the best again." One of them was Avira AntiVir Antivirus Personal. Avira incluye protección contra malware, virus, ransomware y otro malware. Update May 4, 2009: The June issue of Consumer Reports, which just hit the newstand, includes a review of anti-malware software. Support for Windows 2000 is scheduled to end in July 2011. ![]() Taken as a whole, this paints a pretty good picture for AntiVir.ĪntiVir runs on Windows XP, Vista and 2000 and supports the 64 bit versions of both XP and Vista. In February, Rob Pegoraro, writing for the Washington Post, tested three free antivirus programs judging them solely as an end user, rather than on their effectiveness. Avira Free Antivirus All the essentials for free Get it free Avira Internet Security Suite for Windows The premium online protection bundle 57.99 / year (-40) Automatically renews at 57.99 / year, unless the renewal is cancelled. Whether software is easy to use is subjective, but I'm not alone in prefering the usability of AntiVir. As they put it "Move over AVG, we have a new favorite freebie." But, when it came to free software, their choice was AntiVir. On the commercial side, they raved about Norton Internet Security 2009 and ESET Smart Security. For effectiveness they used both their own collection of malware along with ratings from Virus Bulletin. In December, Maximum PC did a review of Antivirus software which considered effectiveness and usability. A month later, only one - AntiVir - detected it." iDefense first spotted the trojan they call "Tigger.A" in November 2008, none of the 37 anti-virus products they tested it against recognized it. " In describing how it was initially detected he said: On February 24th, Brian Krebs blogged about the Tigger Trojan which he called a "relatively unknown data-stealing Trojan horse program that has claimed more than a quarter-million victims in the span of a few months. Only 6 of the 36 scanners detected the PDF file as malicious. He ran the PDF through VirusTotal which scans files with 36 different antivirus products. A few days ago, Larry Seltzer, who writes for eWeek, blogged about the malicious PDF file that their site had offered up through a third party advertising network. ![]()
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