Reviews of AntiVir Personal Edition for Windows

1. 
   Alexander-GG

   Reviewing 9.0.0.452 (Jan 21, 2010)

   This would be the best antivirus if not some very annoying issues.
   
   First of all, updates. Almost 3 days I'm trying to update the virus database, but as I see, this is absolutely useless. What for I need an antivirus if I'm not able to update it's database? This is not the first time when the servers are not working. So, minus 1 star.
   
   Second, the aggressive marketing is outdated. Avira, please, change the marketing strategy. At list, this looks just very stupid. Do they really think that the nag screen (which is easy to disable) will make someone to buy the premium version? Indeed, very stupid policy. So, minus one more star for the nag screen and stupidity.
   
   Today, there are some very good free alternatives. Have no Idea why this product so overrated. It deserves just 3 stars.
2. 
   wdc

   Reviewing 9.0.0.452 (Dec 18, 2009)

   9.0.0.418 and not what you say
3. 
   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.
4. 
   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.
5. 
   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.

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