I hope this little text proves useful to someone who is not sure which AV to get 
Well, Avira and I have been good buddies for about two years now. It was not always a good relationship - had its ups and down, but I can safely say that Avira Free is one of the best free anti-virus programs out there - why?
Several reasons for me. As a user who does almost anything on his system manually, I have been my own "antivirus" for quite a while. Regedit and task manager, maybe with the help of some advanced monitoring applications, I was always able to track down and kill all intruders on my system. The problems began when Internet became a much more....well, dangerous place, and even tho I don't visit "suspicious" sites, we all do use google - thus we unintentionally do visit some places we do not want to. There are also many "cracks" and illegal software (lets be honest here, we all use them a little) and some of them not so legit and often just worms in disguise.
I needed something simple and effective - and that came in the form of Avira. Its simple, stupid, does not bug you every 5 minutes, its virus detection & firewall are quite good and accurate and does not murder your performance. No need to spend time on configurations and exceptions and the like - and since I started using it, i really have no worm/virus problems. It does have its usual "Update complete! Now buy!" window after every update - but that does not bug me. Now someone will say: Avast is better then avira and it does not bug you! HA! - I prefer avira, it works nicer on my system, and I'm just too damn lazy to register every time I re-install my system (I do that a lot). The latest installment of avira (v10) had its own "chicken pocks" - but it seems all of, or the big majority of those issues are resolved now.
So, if you are someone like me - someone who has a lot of knowledge in the field, and just need a little help in keeping his system clean, or even a newbie who needs a reliable and simple AV app - I would highly recommend it
Well, Avira and I have been good buddies for about two years now. It was not always a good relationship - had its ups and down, but I can safely say that Avira Free is one of the best free anti-virus programs out there - why?
Several reasons for me. As a user who does almost anything on his system manually, I have been my own "antivirus" for quite a while. Regedit and task manager, maybe with the help of some advanced monitoring applications, I was always able to track down and kill all intruders on my system. The problems began when Internet became a much more....well, dangerous place, and even tho I don't visit "suspicious" sites, we all do use google - thus we unintentionally do visit some places we do not want to. There are also many "cracks" and illegal software (lets be honest here, we all use them a little) and some of them not so legit and often just worms in disguise.
I needed something simple and effective - and that came in the form of Avira. Its simple, stupid, does not bug you every 5 minutes, its virus detection & firewall are quite good and accurate and does not murder your performance. No need to spend time on configurations and exceptions and the like - and since I started using it, i really have no worm/virus problems. It does have its usual "Update complete! Now buy!" window after every update - but that does not bug me. Now someone will say: Avast is better then avira and it does not bug you! HA! - I prefer avira, it works nicer on my system, and I'm just too damn lazy to register every time I re-install my system (I do that a lot). The latest installment of avira (v10) had its own "chicken pocks" - but it seems all of, or the big majority of those issues are resolved now.
So, if you are someone like me - someone who has a lot of knowledge in the field, and just need a little help in keeping his system clean, or even a newbie who needs a reliable and simple AV app - I would highly recommend it
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