Is Avira considered a good AV protection program (free) or is AVG 7.5
(free) better? I've never heard of Avira.

Thanks,
Caesar

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, ferrante276-
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> Is Avira considered a good AV protection program (free) or is AVG 7.5
> (free) better? I've never heard of Avira.
>
> Thanks,
> Caesar
>
Avira...antivir has better detection rates than AVG (as borne out by av
comparatives),is very low on resources,but can be more problematic in
updating ,and reliable functioning ,especially on older machines such as
98/me.Some have lots of problems ..some have none.Try it and see.
me

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:40:24 -0000, bassbag
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, ferrante276-
>(E-Mail Removed) says...
>> Is Avira considered a good AV protection program (free) or is AVG 7.5
>> (free) better? I've never heard of Avira.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Caesar
>>
>Avira...antivir has better detection rates than AVG (as borne out by av
>comparatives),is very low on resources,but can be more problematic in
>updating ,and reliable functioning ,especially on older machines such as
>98/me.Some have lots of problems ..some have none.Try it and see.
>me

Btw, does it scan incoming e-mail?

Thanks,
C.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, ferrante276-
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:40:24 -0000, bassbag
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, ferrante276-
> >(E-Mail Removed) says...
> >> Is Avira considered a good AV protection program (free) or is AVG 7.5
> >> (free) better? I've never heard of Avira.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Caesar
> >>
> >Avira...antivir has better detection rates than AVG (as borne out by av
> >comparatives),is very low on resources,but can be more problematic in
> >updating ,and reliable functioning ,especially on older machines such as
> >98/me.Some have lots of problems ..some have none.Try it and see.
> >me
>
> Btw, does it scan incoming e-mail?
>
> Thanks,
> C.
>
The free antivir does not have an email scanner (the premium has) ,but
resident scanner scans on writing to disk anyway
me

Dave Cohen wrote:
> Caesar wrote:
>> Is Avira considered a good AV protection program (free) or is AVG 7.5
>> (free) better? I've never heard of Avira.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Caesar
>
> I used Avast before switching to Avira. Both are good. I tried AVG,it
> insisted on telling me a very old file created before any version of
> windows was infected. I didn't like it.
> Only problem with Avira is there's a harmless conflict with Zone Alarm
> that caused ZA to show continuous activity in system tray. For this
> reason I might one day revert back to Avast, but like I said it's
> harmless. Dave Cohen

I've used AVG and Avast and feel that Avast is much better constructed, an
I've never had any trouble with it for many years. The updates are
automatic and seamless.

I have no information about Avira.

--
Gregg C.