Avira 2008

Hi All,

Avira AntiVir Premium is the product of the year Fri, 12 December 2008
AV-Comparatives.org awards Avira’s solution for home users as the best
anti-virus solution of the year 2008

Tettnang, 12 December 2008 – The anti-virus software testing specialists at
AV-Comparatives e.V. have chosen Avira AntiVir Premium as the best anti-virus
solution of 2008. The demands of the international test center headquartered
in Austria are extremely high. All products tested have to prove their
above-average detection rate over several periodical tests and special
attention is given to proactive detection. The test also requires that there
should be virtually no false alarms and that scanning does not affect the
computer’s performance. Crashes, system interruptions and annoying software
errors are some of the other knock-out criteria for AV-Comparatives. Avira
passed all tests with flying colors.


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.... Sorry, a fatal error has occured. You're dead.

Was this the pay for, or the free version?

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From: "Quilljar" <Not@home.today>

| Was this the pay for, or the free version?

He indicated "Avira AntiVir Premium" which is the paid-for version.

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Hi David,

Sunday December 14 2008, David H. Lipman writes to All:

> From: "Quilljar" <Not@home.today>

>| Was this the pay for, or the free version?
> He indicated "Avira AntiVir Premium" which is the paid-for
> version.

<grin>

Gufus

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> (1:342/77.10)

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.... That's what she said.

STOP.NOSPAM.gbbsg@shaw.ca (Gufus) wrote in
news:1229192030@f77.n342.z1.fidonet.org:

> Hi All,
>
> Avira AntiVir Premium is the product of the year Fri, 12 December 2008
> AV-Comparatives.org awards Avira’s solution for home users as the best
> anti-virus solution of the year 2008
>
> Tettnang, 12 December 2008 – The anti-virus software testing specialists
> at AV-Comparatives e.V. have chosen Avira AntiVir Premium as the best
> anti-virus solution of 2008.
>
>

The premium version is excellent and with its Webguard and mail scanner,
I'm beginning to think that resident antispyware programs and a software
firewall are unnecessary (as long as one has a router). It would nice if
it would incorporate the same form of bootscan that Avast employs.

One thing, though. Avira didn't actually rate that high with Virus
Bulletin.


http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/22...windows-server



> Security giants fail Virus Bulletin test



> Most of the major vendors, including McAfee, Symantec, Microsoft and
>Sophos, were able to pass the test. However, several others, including F-
>Secure, Kaspersky and Computer Associates, fell short of the
certification.
>
> Other firms failing the test included Redstone, Avira, Microworld, Quick
>Heal and ArcaBit, whose ArcaVir product missed 93 samples and returned
>three falsitives.



> In order to pass the test and receive VB100 certification, a product must
>be able to identify all 100 pieces of malware without returning any false
positives for uninfected files.
>
> CA's eTrust software missed one item from the malware list, while F-
Secure and Kaspersky each returned one false positive.
>
> Conspicuously absent from the latest VB100 test was Trend Micro. The
>company pulled out of the tests following a failure in April.
>
> Critics of the test suggest that the system is antiquated and relies too
>heavily on signature-based testing, which checks for known malware
>samples, rather than more recently-developed heuristic, or behaviour-
>based, methods that can catch new or unknown malware.





That said, Norton stil seems to get high ratings from all review sites, and
by many accounts is getting lighter on resouces. Can anyone deny that
Symantec is still THE site to go to for researching how to manually remove
a trojan or virus?




Which site is given more weight in the field of Antivirus reviews - AV-
Comparatives or Virus Bulletin.

On 27-Dec-2008, hmmm wrote:

> The premium version is excellent and with its Webguard and mail scanner,
> I'm beginning to think that resident antispyware programs and a software
> firewall are unnecessary (as long as one has a router). It would nice if
> it would incorporate the same form of boot scan that Avgas employs.
>
> One thing, though. Avira didn't actually rate that high with Virus
> Bulletin.
>
>
> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/22...windows-server

The thing Avira did not pass was Windows Server 2008. It passed the test
with Vista and XP.

I've been running PCcillin for 4 or 5 years. They pissed
me off when the auto updated and charged my credit card.
SO.........I'm kinda leaning toward Avira 2009
proffesional to put on my 3 comps. The one thing I think
I will miss from PCcillin though is the ability to tell
who connects to my network, without having to look at
router logs. Does Avira have this feature in there
firewall section?

In article <gj7o0p$vf1$1@news.motzarella.org>,
zero@nospam.com says...
>
> On 27-Dec-2008, hmmm wrote:
>
> > The premium version is excellent and with its Webguard and mail scanner,
> > I'm beginning to think that resident antispyware programs and a software
> > firewall are unnecessary (as long as one has a router). It would nice if
> > it would incorporate the same form of boot scan that Avgas employs.
> >
> > One thing, though. Avira didn't actually rate that high with Virus
> > Bulletin.
> >
> >
> > http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/22...windows-server
>
> The thing Avira did not pass was Windows Server 2008. It passed the test
> with Vista and XP.
>

hmmm wrote:

>One thing, though. Avira didn't actually rate that high with Virus
>Bulletin.

What!?! It outperformed every other competitor.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seite...se_2008_11.php

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G. Morgan wrote:

>hmmm wrote:
>
>>One thing, though. Avira didn't actually rate that high with Virus
>>Bulletin.
>
>What!?! It outperformed every other competitor.
>http://www.av-comparatives.org/seite...se_2008_11.php

Here is the report summary:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seite...e/report20.pdf

Avira and Kaspersky were head & shoulders above all the other vendors.

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I'll be over here, looking through your stuff. -Jack Handey

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:54:59 -0600, <blabla@AOL.COM> wrote Re Re:
Avira 2008:

>I've been running PCcillin for 4 or 5 years. They pissed
>me off when the auto updated and charged my credit card.
>SO.........I'm kinda leaning toward Avira 2009

Check out Bank of America ShopSafe. If you have a BofA credit card, it
allows you to generate a temporary credit card number that is good
for a single charge that you specify for a limited time that you
specify. Once the merchant charges to it, it becomes "expired".

http://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy...about_shopsafe

I use it often in situations like this.