Comments on: Avira AntiVir Personal 8

By: hani

hani — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:52:08 +0000

Thanks Dan. But I don’t appear to get pop ups??? I’ve loaded Avira alongside McAfee and ZoneAlarm and I had set all to update manually.

By: Dante

Dante — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:38:42 +0000

Oops. Just got the nag :)

By: Dante

Dante — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:35:26 +0000

Thanks Dan. But I don’t appear to get pop ups??? I’ve loaded Avira alongside McAfee and ZoneAlarm and I had set all to update manually.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:32:09 +0000

Dante,

This one:
http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/20/hide-antivir-scans-updates-and-advertisement/

Dan

By: Dante

Dante — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:06:00 +0000

uhhhh… what “trick”????

By: brun0

brun0 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:41:11 +0000

Yep, the trick still works. Luckily Avira (probably) doesn´t care about it :)

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:11:21 +0000

That’s funny… I was a faithful NOD32 user for years through version 2.7. The newest version (3.0) seemed to be heading in the direction so many great av’s go down… bloated and trying to do too many things.

I switched over to AntiVir free and have been quite happy with it.

Martin: do you know if the trick to prevent avnotify from popping up will work with the new version 8 of AntiVir Personal?

Dan

By: Angelo R

Angelo R — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:46:41 +0000

When my Anti-Virus (AVG) decided to go pay for the new version, I also ended up doing a lot of research for anti-virus software. The thing is, when it comes to Anti-Virus software, I don’t mind paying if the product is actually good. After a lot of research and talking to various people, I actually settled on NOD32.

By: Dante

Dante — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:21:10 +0000

This article got me to think about re-examining my anti-virus choice. So I did a google on “anti-virus comparison” and found http://www.av-comparatives.org/

Looks like Avira is way up there.