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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 12:00 am 
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joby_toss wrote:
I'm using the free Avast now and I must say I'm pretty impressed, but it's only been a couple of hours...

Any tips on Avast AV? Any annoyances? :)


i've also tried the new version, Avast 5, and i'm pretty impressed too!!!
A HUGE improvement over the 4.8 era...


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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:53 am 
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Yeah, but you also "watch free movies online", so I don't care much for your opinion!

Edit: my remark was meant to a spammer whose post got deleted later.

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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:13 am 
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God I hate spammers. Personally I think they should all be castrated and then have to sit in bleach.

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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 1:57 am 
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Christ is this the same brain dead spammer as last time? Maybe we need to start blocking known spammer IPs.

daroPL_AntiSpam and ATLBL Antispam look decent at http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/modif ... i%96spam-9

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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 4:48 am 
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I think that he finds this topic through some sort of search engine.

Would it be better to lock this topic?

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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 8:16 am 
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Lock it AND implement one of the spam blocking mods form above.

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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:10 am 
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Avira-Criticized-for-Recommending-Controversial-Product-205954.shtml :(

Despite that piece of news, I decided to continue using AntiVir myself.

I haven't got the Uniblue ads at all, because I haven't registered my copy of AntiVir (so they don't know my email address) and I have disabled the daily nag screen with a hack.

In addition, I declined to install the WebGuard module (it has never been a part of AntiVir Personal), so I didn't need to install the Ask toolbar either.

Anyway, that piece of news shows that Avira has changed its business model. :( I may speed up switching to MSE (I originally planned to do it after installing Windows 8), especially if Avira continues with this direction.

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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:01 am 
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And so, free security products are getting "better and better" ... :(

P.S. don't know for what reason, but this reminded me of a song of my beloved Mylene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZnis3XO5VM :)

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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:36 am 
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Why?
She' s so lovely!
http://www.techno360.in/avira-premium-s ... cense-key/
( Select custom installation and _/ns)

For free users ( I hope very few ):
Site: http://pastebin.com/
Sharecode: f0gyG42B

Rating:
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/latest_comparative/index


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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 8:45 am 
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Link updated!
Voilà! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Take a look at the rating before any decision.


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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 6:01 am 
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@zak_711

The links in the "For free users" section of your post lead to instructions to violate the Avira EULA. Please remove those links. (Edit: Thanks for removing them. :) )

In addition, from the first link:

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Here is the problem. Avira says that the toolbar is optional but clicking the Install later button only temporarily closes the popup alert. The popup window will continue to show whenever Windows is booted up and will only stop nagging you until the Avira SearchFree Toolbar is installed.


That's not true, as the author himself acknowledges in the comments. The popup window won't be displayed after clicking "Install later" three times.

(In addition, after cleaning the Temp folder you'll see a different popup window. It won't come back after dismissing it three times, even after cleaning the folder again.)

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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:29 am 
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And even more ...

THE PORTABLE VERSION

Minivir 4

Site: http://pastebin.com/
Sharecode: 33wwaQRL

Sharecode: En7URw2d


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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:19 am 
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I know this is an old thread, but I'm reviving it just to say that I had so many troubles with Avira lately (after being a very satisfied user for a couple of years) that I ended up uninstalling it. :evil:

Following tips found here and elsewhere, I installed MS Security Essentials, too. I now have some occasional lagging (to be expected, it's MurkySoft after all :) ), but pretty much everything else is running cool. Bye bye, false positives galore... 8-)

EDIT: after reading this (http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/summary), I may be switching again soon... ;)


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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:51 am 
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I use MS Security Essentials on my main computer at work (HP laptop) with absolutely no problems for more than a year. I was really impressed by it. But at home it slowed my machine from time to time, exactly like you say so I uninstalled it. I am still using Avast Free and we learned to live with each other, for now. :)

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 Post subject: Re: I hate Avira AntiVir 10
PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:30 am 
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Midas wrote:
EDIT: after reading this (http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/summary), I may be switching again soon... ;)

What's wrong? MSE gets the VB100 recommendation for the Windows 7 Professional - December 2011 test


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