Avira Free Antivirus is a series of
antivirus products from the German company Avira GmbH. Today, the company is a global leading manufacturer of antivirus software for home and professional use. Avira GmbH has extensive experience, so the software it produces is highly reliable and of high quality.
Avira Antivirus is certified by ICSA Labs.
Key features and core functionality of Avira AntiVir software:
Avira Free Antivirus 2017. Free antivirus for personal use, this product includes a resident monitor (checks processes when they access files), a program, and a manual and automatic update scanner (it displays a window with advertisements to purchase the commercial Premium version).
It has the ability to detect adware, spyware, and other malicious programs, and additionally protects Android devices from theft and spam.
Avira AntiVir Premium 2017. Antiviruses 2017 feature proactive ProActiv protection and cloud technology Protection Cloud. The personal antivirus version has several advantages compared to Avira Free Antivirus, the most significant being:
- Internet updates are much faster and more efficient;
- protection from websites containing malicious code;
- scanning of outgoing and incoming email via SMTP and POP3.
- scans Internet traffic.
According to testing results in 02.2009 by AV-Comparatives – Avira Premium 8.2 detected 99.7% of viruses, earning 2 security stars.
Avira Professional Security 2017: This package is used to protect workstations in business. It has all the features of Avira AntiVir Premium and protects PCs on the network. Optimal and reliable protection for workstations (laptops, computers) running Windows OS with low maintenance costs.
Avira Internet Security 2017: A security product, it differs from Premium by adding a personal Firewall, anti-spam, parental controls (blocking sites undesirable for children to view), and gaming modes. It provides maximum computer protection, as well as protecting important information and activities on the Internet, allowing you to speed up and optimize Windows performance.
Other products:
- AntiVir MailServer, AntiVir Server and AntiVir ProxyServer — packages that protect email servers, data servers, and proxy servers respectively. The price of each ranges from €235 to tens of thousands of euros depending on the number of clients from 10, license duration of 1, 3, or 5 years, and levels of technical support.
- AntiVir Free Android Security — Android platform applications, it helps locate the device if lost.
- AntiVir Free Mac Security — free antivirus for protecting Macintosh clients.
