Avira AntiVirus Personal / Premium / Security Suite 9.0.0.386

**Steve123** · 18-03-2009

Fresh from the laboratory, we present Avira AntiVir Personal, Avira AntiVir Premium and Avira Premium Security Suite. Programmers at the German high-tech security powerhouse have given the user interface a facelift and improved user guidance. A configuration assistant takes the user by the hand and helps them to adapt the configuration quickly and easily to their personal needs. What’s inside is important, too: multi-processor and multi-core systems support allows the anti-virus solution to be up to 20 % faster.

Avira Premium Security Suite now provides parents with parental control that is uncomplicated to use: simply assign ready-made profiles for children, teenagers and adults to your Windows user accounts – and you and your children will no longer be faced with unsuitable content when surfing. Administrators can create their own profiles and specify sites that are always allowed or prohibited, regardless of the chosen profile. Another bonus is WebGuard now features a “Fraud” category, which filters out fraudulent sites. Avira is cooperating with consumer protection agencies to maintain an extensive list of websites that involve subscription payments and fraudulent information.

Dealing with viruses is now child’s play. The Avira designers have modified the virus protection so that the user is no longer asked how to proceed each time malware is discovered. Instead, a complete search can take place and at the end the user will find all malware in a clearly arranged list, which can be wiped from the hard drive with the click of a mouse.

If you are one of the growing number of netbook owners, you will be pleased to hear there are adapted screen dialogs in the AntiVir-9 products. These allow the virus protection to be used, without problem, on the small screens typical of netbooks. The hearts of gamers will beat faster, too: the “Game mode” in Avira Premium Security Suite now automatically recognizes when a game is started, and suppresses all firewall messages for the duration of the game. The programmers have endowed the Avira firewall with a new “Privileged mode” which users can use to enable applications in general, when installing trusted software that requires access to certain ports or network adapters. This highly practical method means that you no longer have to set up separate rules.

The new products are available now from Avira’s online shop at www.avira.com. What hasn’t change is the price: as a single-user license, Avira AntiVir Premium costs €19.95 including one year’s updates, € 5 of which is donated to the charitable Auerbach Foundation. Avira’s Premium Security Suite costs € 39.95. Avira will be able to upgrade to the new version free of charge!

**Shen** · 18-03-2009

All products contain a resident monitor (Virus Guard), Task Scheduler, a module for automatic updating via the Internet and a separate scanner files. There is also a great anti-virus signature database, which reveals as previously known and potentially dangerous applications and malicious software. Anti-Virus database contains more than 200 thousand entries, which is updated daily. Heuristic analyzer will help protect you from unknown macro viruses.

There are three variants of products. The former is free Avira AntiVir Personal. It provides users with protection against viruses, worms, Trojans, as well as programs for dialing. In addition, allows you to search and delete the «root-kits», as well as hinder «phishing». Like all products of the last, eighth line, includes improved algorithms for crawling, as well as a new user interface. The second version of Avira AntiVir Premium is a commercial product, which in addition to the above may contain a means for checking mail and web-traffic, protects against «spyware», and also uses the faster servers to download updated signatures. The third product is called Avira Premium Security Suite is also related to a paid version, the load includes a firewall, spam filtering system and advanced filtering mechanisms of sites, game mode, as well as a system backup.

It should be noted that, despite its initially declared free, the developer still has implemented a system of warnings in the form of advertisements on the full screen, which recommends that every day to buy the commercial version, or to participate in the discount program.

The ninth release contains a number of significant improvements. In particular increased functional free version, upgraded engine, including means for internal protection, improved quarantine modules, added the initial setup wizard, which, together with free license allows you to select the preferred modes of operation. In addition, the added opportunity to confront the threats posed by adware. No cost and no improvement in the commercial product.