[dba-Tech] Avira

To some degree I'd concur that  it is a matter of personal preference.

-Avira has not failed any of my customers by allowing malware through
whereas AVG has a couple of times in the last few months - mostly with the
fake antivirus malware, which is a difficult case no doubt. No security
product is perfect. This could just be that the AVG users were more prone to
visit sites with fake AV downloads than the Avira users. Statistics...

-I find the UI a bit easier to understand than AVG's. AVGs UI has improved
but still seems a bit odd to me.

-Avira free allows more scheduling options than AVG free.

-Avira "seems" to run faster than AVG. I haven't personally benchmarked them
against each other but there are (old) benchmarks that do compare security
products and Avira is slightly better performance wise than AVG.

John

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:03 AM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Avira

Hi Rocky

Well, what is better? A matter of preference I think.

/gustav


>>> rockysmolin at bchacc.com 07-04-2009 14:55 >>>
Better than AVG?

Rocky
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 1:30 AM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com 
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Avira

Hi Rocky

Exactly our experience too. 
I can add that it is a bit sensitive to some uninstall exe where it pops a
false positive now an then with a sound that blows you off the chair. And
the free version sometimes pops a gigantic promo window which you quickly
learn to click away.

/gustav

>>> john at winhaven.net 07-04-2009 06:25 >>>
I Rocky,
I use it on people that want free AV. I think it's better than AVG or Avast
which are the other two big free AVs. Avira offers a number of things that
are quite impressive for a free AV. It includes anti-malware and an
anti-rootkit capability that work quite well. I compared its overall
resource use against Vipre, which is currently the lowest resource consumer
for full protection and it is about 3 times higher. That is still in the
pack though compared to other AVs. If someone won't spend the $30 for Vipre,
I recommend it.

HTH
John B

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 6:08 PM
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Subject: [dba-Tech] Avira

Anybody know anything about Avira anti-virus software?



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