Avira Free Antivirus Terbaru 2012

Avira Free Antivirus || File Size : 79.04 MB.

Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG is a German antivirus software company. When founded, the company was called "H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH". Its antivirus applications are based on the AntiVir scan engine also known as "Luke Filewalker" (referring to Luke Skywalker), first launched in 1988. For aesthetic reasons, the name was changed to Avira. Avira's engine has been licensed toAshampoo, Ad-Aware, and Webroot WebWasher.^{[citation needed]} Avira is one of the most widely used antivirus programs in the world, with 100 million users worldwide as of September 2009. The company supports the Auerbach Stiftung, a foundation created by the company's founder and CEO, Tjark Auerbach. It supports charitable, social, cultural, and science projects.^{[citation needed]}

"Avira security software" refers to a range of antivirus and Internet security software for the Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, andSolaris computing platforms by Avira.

On October 17, 2008, a major update to the search engine was released, which increased scanning speed by 20%.

Avira Operations periodically "cleans out" the virus definition files, by replacing specific signatures with generic ones, which results in a general increase in performance and scanning speed. A database clean-out was made on October 27, 2008, which caused problems to AntiVir Personal users when updating because of its large size (15 MB) and because of AntiVir Personal's slow servers. For that reason Avira added an additional 6 GB of bandwidth^{[clarification needed]} to the AntiVir Personal Servers and changed the updating process: Nowadays there are 32 smaller definition files which are updated regularly to avoid peaks in the download of updates.

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Avira AntiVir Personal is for personal use only and free of charge. Like much antivirus software, it can run a scan to check disks for malware, and can also run as a background process which checks every file opened or downloaded. It can detect and possibly remove some rootkits. It updates its virus definitions over the Internet, daily by default, also opening a window with an advertisement suggesting that the user purchase Avira AntiVir Premium or Avira Premium Security Suite. Avira updated all its products to version 10.0 in March 2010.

Avira offers a rescue CD image which may be downloaded as an ISO file free of charge and used to write a bootable CD. The CD has its own Linux-based operating system so it does not depend on the host PC's; it can be used to clean an unbootable PC, and may be able to find malware which uses the host's operating system to hide (e.g., some rootkits). The CD image contains the AntiVir program and the virus database current as of the time of download; it boots the machine into the AntiVir program, then scans for and removes malware, possibly also restoring normal boot and operation.

Avira AntiVir Premium has several improvements over the free version, including:

Email scanning (POP3 and SMTP)
WebGuard to block access to malicious sites

Avira AntiVir Premium Security Suite has some more improvements over both versions, including:

Anti Spam for E-mail
Firewall blocks hackers
Backup System to protect and secure important data
AntiBot prevents dangerous botnets from taking over your system
Parental Controls blocks unsuitable websites for Children and Teens

No antivirus software can detect all malware, particularly new versions; known viruses can be detected by characteristic file or memory content, and programs capable of carrying out suspicious but sometimes legitimate activities such as finding passwords or terminating processes can be flagged for attention.

Product feature summary

	Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus	Avira Antivirus Premium	Avira Internet Security
AntiVirus	Yes	Yes	Yes
AntiDialer	Yes	Yes	Yes
AntiRootkit	Yes	Yes	Yes
AntiSpyware + AntiAdware	Yes	Yes	Yes
WebGuard	Yes	Yes	Yes
AntiPhishing	No	Yes	Yes
AntiVirProActiv	No	Yes	Yes
AntiDrive-by	Yes	Yes	Yes
RescueSystem	No	Yes	Yes
MailGuard	No	Yes	Yes
Fast Premium update server	No	Yes	Yes
AntiSpam	No	No	Yes
FireWall	No	No	Yes
GameMode	No	Yes	Yes
Backup-System	No	No	Yes
AntiBot	No	No	Yes
Parental Control	No	No	Yes
Cost	Freeware	€19.95, £16.66, ¥2,255	€39.95, £33.37, ¥4,515