To date, the Avira antivirus program, whose full name looks like Avira Free Antivirus 2012, is undoubtedly considered one of the most worthy antiviruses. It is especially pleasing that it is absolutely free, in the case, of course, if you use it on your own home computer. Avira - reviews indicate that it is in no way inferior to such well-known brands as Kaspersky, NOD32 or Doctor Web.
In order to get acquainted with this topic in more detail, I propose to divide the article into several sections. As a result, readers will learn about the manufacturing company itself, as well as feedback on the work, and recommendations will be given both by ordinary users and by professionals.
Section 1. Avira. Company reviews
Experts in the computer world know the German company Avira GmbH as the leading and one of the most professional developers of a series of developments aimed at combating malicious software.
Why can this company be called one of the oldest? Because they created it in the city of Tetnang, in 1986, now far from us, when the Internet did not exist at all. At that time, communication between computers was carried out only through floppy disks or floppy disks.
The founder of Avira GmbH, Tyark Auerbach, was interested in the nature of the emergence of computer viruses, their speed of spread and methods aimed at combating them. That is why he created his own company, initially calling it H + BEDV Daten technik.
Currently, Avira is receiving mostly positive reviews about its work. The corporation specializes in digital media security and massively produces appropriate software solutions.
Section 2. Avira Antivir, professional reviews
Specialists primarily highlight the following features of this anti-virus program:
- Scanning of a user computer is carried out on demand, while scanning for all known types of malware is also performed .
- Monitor Avira provides continuous access control to the contents of the computer.
- Without the knowledge of the user, it is forbidden to install any reading applications on the system.
- All suspicious files are quarantined.
- Through the Internet it will be possible to get all the necessary information about the detected virus.
- A huge advantage is the presence of a built-in task scheduler, which will help to automatically scan your computer and update anti-virus software.
However, it should be noted that in case you decide to use the services of the paid version, some more features of Avira will be added to the list proposed above. User reviews primarily focus on:
- Web Protection features, which will protect against the passage to all malicious sites;
- Live Support is a feature that allows an Avira specialist to connect to a computer remotely and solve problems in especially difficult cases.
Section 3. Avira Antivirus. General Users Reviews
In general, the company produces a list of products intended for both companies and organizations, and for private use on home computers. The latter can use the program absolutely free.
Is it worth trusting this development, because usually we are wary of applications whose manufacturers do not require any monetary reward for the services provided? Most likely, the answer to this question will be in the affirmative, because:
- more than 100 million people in the world have given their preference to Avira;
- Avira GmbH has vast experience in this field and therefore anti-virus products provide its customers with reliability and high quality services:
- if you look for information on the Internet, you can find out that these products were marked by a huge number of professional awards, and assessments of its effectiveness were only positive;
- when downloading products from the official site no tedious registration is needed;
- The following operating systems are supported: Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista;
- updating Avira is quick and easy.