Reviews of AntiVir Personal Edition for Windows

1. 
   Lsavagejt

   Reviewing 9.0.0.452 (Dec 8, 2009)

   I got the same warning- uTorrent trojan. Well, that's a first for me in about a year and a half. In a way I'm relieved to know it was a FP, but I'm upset that I uninstalled uTorrent and spent half the day cleaning out files and registry entries I didn't have to.
2. 
   emanresU deriseD

   Reviewing 9.0.0.452 (Dec 8, 2009)

   So Avira has never given you a false positive? Funny.
   
   Today, courtesy of Avira:
   
   (quote)Virus or unwanted program 'TR/Ag.289584.AA [trojan]'
   detected in file 'C:\Program Files\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe.(end quote)
   
   And, when submitted to Avira for review, this response was already in place:
   
   (quote)uTorrent.exe 282.8 KB FALSE POSITIVE
   
   The file 'uTorrent.exe' has been determined to be 'FALSE POSITIVE'. In particular this means that this file is not malicious but a false alarm.(end quote)
   
   But hey, at least it wasn't a popular program or anything.
   
   This is ROUTINE with Avira--unless you run a total of around 3 different applications on your system, and never change them.
   
   And then we have Lsavagejt's response above: "I'm upset that I uninstalled uTorrent and spent half the day cleaning out files and registry entries I didn't have to." And isn't that the crux of why FPs are such a bad thing? At best you have some of your time wasted dismissing the warnings and adding exclusions until they get around to fixing the problem (which is another thing--you either have to keep checking or guess when they HAVE fixed the problem); at worst you do what Lsavagejt did, and pull your hair out thinking you have an infection when you don't.
3. 
   mfarmilo

   Reviewing 9.0.0.452 (Dec 7, 2009)

   An excellent program.
   
   For the record though - the latest build is actually 9.0.0.418, not 9.0.0.452 as posted here. Someone is posting false information. This is also the build this link will download.
4. 
   Lsavagejt

   Reviewing 9.0.0.415 (Nov 30, 2009)

   I like it and paid for the license. It has never shown me a false positive. The few times it warned me is when I was leak testing a firewall and there was an option to deny access.
   
   Low memory and cpu usage and regular updates.
   
   I don't like having to burn a recovery cd. It should just clean in safe mode like avast.
5. 
   aruprc

   Reviewing 9.0.0.408 (Nov 29, 2009)

   Free or paid, its the best no matter what they throw at it. Detection is the most important aspect of an AV, some say it has to clean good, I agree but then what will you clean if you can't detect it in first place.

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