I have been using this antivirus for almost a year, this software is proven and tested to provide the protection you desired when it comes to computer threats.
The AntiVir Personal Edition offers the effective protection against computer viruses for everyone. Almost everyday a new virus is created which clearly post a threat to every computer user, one thing hasn't changed: the reliability of AntiVir which is demonstrated in numerous comparison test and references featured in independent trade journals.
Features of Avira AntiVir Personal 9.0 :
· 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
· safeguard against cost generating dial-up program
· protection against trojaner, worms, backdoors, jokes and other harmful programs
· easy operation
· Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating
· Protection against previously unknown boot record viruses and master boot record viruses
· Quality "Made in Germany"
· support is free of charge via AntiVir Bulletin Board
What's New in Avira AntiVir Personal 9.0 :
· Quarantine manager: the number of columns has been reduced
· Quarantine manager: send files using HTTP
· System tray tool: display the status of modules on mouse-over
· Last system scan: individual configuration of the alert message
· Renaming "Win32 Heuristic" to "AHeAD" in the configuration panel
· Support for netbooks (screen resolution)
· Configuration panel: new button "Default Values". This button allows you to restore the configuration to the predefined default values
· New installation folder and registry keys for all products: "C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop" and "HKLM\Software\Avira\AntiVir Desktop".Now there are no differences between the products AntiVir Personal, AntiVir Premium and Premium Security Suite any longer
· Configuration wizard after setup
· Process protection for GUI processes
· File and folder protection for AntiVir files and folders
· Registry protection for AntiVir keys
· Scanning of locked files
· Scanner: combined display of malware detections and one-click removal after an on demand scan. This option can be set in the scanner configuration
· Scanner: improved system disinfection
· Scanner: optimized scan on multi-processor machines
· Guard: less overhead in memory
· Scheduler: scheduling on multiple days of the week
· Scheduler: manual starting and stopping of jobs
· Ad-/Spyware detection
