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Market competition among the top antivirus application publishers is
fierce because there is so much money at stake, what with more than a
billion PC users requiring protection from the dark side of the
internet. PC users who have researched the topic at all know that it is
safer to purchase commercial antivirus software
than to settle for the Windows Defender that is bundled with Windows 8.
One virus scanner well worth considering is Avira Antivirus Pro.
The performance of antivirus software – in terms of its ability to
block attacks, go lightly on system resources and accurately detect
threats without confusing good files for dangerous files – is the most
important consideration. Additional features are secondary in importance
to performance. It turns out that Avira is an outstanding performer,
which is why it competes among the best virus protection products in our
review. AV-Test, a software test lab that has earned industry respect
for objectivity and transparency, ran a couple of dozen antivirus for PC
products through two months of continuous testing during March and
April of 2014.
Avira and all of the virus scanners in the lineup made no mistakes
whatsoever in correctly identifying safe files and websites. None of
them confused dangerous files and websites as safe. However, in the
tests designed to measure the virus protection’s effect on system
performance, Avira slowed the systems it ran on by an average of one
second versus three seconds for the industry average. The results of the
performance tests came from five test samples that measured the effects
from visiting websites, downloading software, installing and running
programs, and copy data. The most astounding test results for Avira,
however, emerged during protection tests against malware infections.
Avira made no mistakes while detecting and preventing 20,646 malware
samples discovered and collected during the four weeks prior the
testing. The industry average, by way of contrast, was 98 percent
protection. In another – more difficult – test, AV-Test exposed Avira to
138 samples of brand-new threats involving zero-day malware, new web
threats and new email threats. The result: Whereas the industry average
was 94 percent protection from the never-seen-before threats, Avira
protected against 100 percent of the new threats. It is no wonder, then,
that Avira is counted among the best antivirus applications.
Although it lacks instant messaging protection, Avira Antivirus Pro
goes beyond antivirus protection to include antiphishing. Most antivirus
software products now include antiphishing because, as the internet
security software industry implements more sophisticated methods to
fight malware, hackers are increasingly transferring their efforts to
phishing. Phishing relies more on tricking human beings than on tricking
operating systems. Avira keeps track of the sites known to be malicious
and saves you from trickery by rating the safety of the websites that
appear in any internet searches that you run. In fact, it goes further
than that to save you from phishing by intercepting malicious websites
before they can even load in your browser.
Avira’s support site contains video tutorials, downloads of
utilities, manuals and information about viruses and other sorts of
malware. You can email for help. You can telephone for help too. Just
realize that it is a European telephone number.
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