AVIRA ANTIVIRUS

Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG is a German multinational and family-owned antivirus software company. With an estimated 9.6% of market share according to OPSWAT, and over 100 million customers, Avira was considered the sixth largest antivirus vendor in 2012. The company supports the Auerbach Stiftung, a foundation created by the company's founder Tjark Auerbach. It promotes charitable and social projects as well as the arts, culture and science.
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Virus definition Cleanup:

Avira periodically "cleans out" the virus definition files, by replacing specific signatures with generic ones, resulting in a general increase in performance and scanning speed. A database clean-out with the size of 15 MB was made on 27 October 2008, causing problems to the users of the Free edition because of its large size and slow servers of the Free edition. To solve the problem, Avira improved the updating process by reducing the size of the individual updatable files, resulting in the delivery of less data in each update. Nowadays there are 32 smaller definition files that are updated regularly in order to avoid peaks in the download of the updates.[7]

Protection Cloud:

Avira Protection Cloud (APC) was first introduced in version 2013. The aim of APC is improving detection with less impact on system performance due to the use of cloud computing. APC was initially released as a sneak technical preview to selected testers. After the initial preview, Avira implemented this technology in all paid 2013 products. When APC was first implement in Version 2013, its only used when the users perform a manual quick system scans. Lately,this technology has been extended to the real-time protection, which subsequently improve the Avira's score in the AV-Comparatives September and later Report.

Firewall

Avira has removed their own FireWall Technology in Version 2014,replace it with the management of Windows FireWall(started with Windows 7/8/8.1),because in Windows 8, the Microsoft Certification Program forces the developer to use interfaces introduced in Windows Vista.

Summary

Detects and removes more than 150,000 viruses Always among the winners of comparison test featured in computer journals The resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically, e.g. downloading of data from the internet Scanning and repair of macro viruses Protection against previously unknown macro viruses Protection against trojans, worms, backdoors, jokes and other harmful programs AntiVir protection against viruses, worms and Trojans AntiDialer protection against expensive dialers AntiRootkit protection against hidden rootkits AntiPhishing protection against phishing AntiSpyware protection against spyware and adware NetbookSupport for laptops with low resolution QuickRemoval eliminates viruses at the push of a button Easy operation Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating Protection against previously unknown boot record viruses and master boot record viruses