[roddy32]

Avira AntiVir Premium provides professional protection against viruses and malware, worms, Trojans, adware, Spyware and phishing.
With real-time on-access scanning, profile-based on-demand scans and scheduling of full system scanning and updates it offers premium protection. It includes a POP3 based MailScanner that scans emails before they are stored on your machine.
With a user-friendly control center, quarantine management, fast performance and world leading detection rates the Avira AntiVir Premium provides essential protection for your PC.
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• Protection viruses, worms and Trojans
• Protection against expensive dialers
• Detects and deletes rootkits
• NEW: Raised scan speed
• NEW: Redesigned visual appearance
• Protection against phishing
• Protection against spyware
• Special protection against email viruses (POP 3)
• Fast updates through Premium Server
• 5 Euro donation to Auerbach Foundation
• Protection against annoying adware
• NEW: System to create a Rescue-CD

Product Info: AntiVir® Personal

[roddy32]

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Avira switches to new update system

November 19, 2009, 7:30 am

Due to the fast growing amount of malware out there in the wild our virus definition files grow fast as well. We monitored the situation with our Updates very closely. We realise that users of the free Avira AntiVir Personal had issues fetching the Updates in time recently and did come up with a few ideas how we could solve the problem and to better satisfy the needs of our users.

Two of the results are getting realized today: First, we switch from our current virus definition files (called iVDF) to a new format called nVDF. iVDF consists of 4 VDF files, while nVDF uses at least 32 files – we need to transfer less data for updating our virus definitions effectively in the future.

This means that we need to deliver about 25 MByte to every Avira installation starting today for switching to the new update system. This might lead to some delays for some users, especially for the users of our free version Avira AntiVir Personal. Just to get an idea about what we’re talking here: More than 100.000.000 Users are trying to get the update more or less on the same day. That is more than 2.5 Petabytes (or 2,500 Terabytes) of traffic.

To ease the bandwidth bottleneck, we decided to additionally use a Content Delivery Network (CDN). We were first testing a CDN built up by our current Internet service provider. Shortly after activating the CDN, the redirectors – which redirect the update requests to servers close to the users location – were overloaded and couldn’t answer the requests anymore. The situation was solved a little later on, but the CDN isn’t big enough yet to spread this huge update in time. So we decided to switch to a global player in the CDN market to deliver the update.

We hope that the data is transfered much faster this way so also the users of free Avira AntiVir Personal can enjoy their security solution without any problems: After this Update the situation will get much better for the users of Avira AntiVir Personal.

N.B.: Users of commercial Avira products like Avira AntiVir Premium, Avira Premium Security Suite or Avira AntiVir Professional don’t face any of these problems as they access our servers with reserved bandwidth.

Dirk Knop
Technical Editor

http://techblog.avir...date-system/en/

[roddy32]

Due to the news that AntiVir/Avira has decided to add the ask.com toolbar to their free version, we have decided to still post updates for those of you that have the program BUT I would suggest that you change to another program that has not gone over to the dark side.

More information here
http://www.avira.com...etail/faqid/861

To make matters worse, they have also partnered with Uniblue "Registry Booster" another progam with a bad rep.

[jasper the rasper]

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