AVIRA Free Anti-Virus Version 9.0.394 Full Review

(Last Updated June 8, 2009 @ 7:43 pm EST)

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THE FOLLOWING ARE TESTS, THAT HAVE BEEN DONE AND THE  RESULTS….

Results breakdown:

Passed – Did well in all the tests

Acceptable – Could go ether way…but in most cases it passed

Failed – Did not work or only worked 1 out of 10 times…the tests were run

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- Stability of Program – Passed – Did not have any issues

- Speed of Scan – Passed – Way better then AVG and PC Tools free Anti-Virus

- Does AVG do automatic updates by itself - Passed – There is a nag or ad screen every few updates

- Residential shield test – Acceptable – Has some very minor detection rate issues…but you can’t get much better then AVIRA or AVAST

- Internet Browser Cookie detection and removal test – Acceptable – You have to change default setting to even pick up one Internet cookie.

-  Spyware/Adware – Failed – Seems to have miss every types of Spyware or Adware I tested it with..180souloutions, weatherbug, Zango and many many more…

- Root Kit detection Rate - Acceptable – AVIRA detected 2 out of 5 Root Kit multiplier virus

- Vista / XP Virus detection rate test – VISTA Passed / XP Passed -  The same detection rate  across the boarded regardless of operating system.

- Link Scanner/ Safe Search – Not Available

-  E-mail scanner – Not Available

**Like always the results speak for itself…but as always I leave the final test up to you guys….

Over All Rating: 5 Passed, 3 Acceptable, 1 Failed (Total # of tests done 9)

Till my next post,

Se7en