AVIRA Free Anti-Virus Version (9.0.403) Full Review

(Last Updated June 27, 2009 @ 6:14 pm EST) Added New Test “Number of time the program has been compromised by Hacker or Virus”

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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

- Number of time the program has been compromised by Hacker or Virus - Failed - (2 major virus attacks & 1 Major Hijack or Hack Attack) …The 2 virus attacks which attacked AVIRA only and not any other program or virus scan and 1 AVIRA Free Anti-Virus Hijack or Hack attempt.** This is a tough one because there has been some major issues with this version over the last month or so in regards to major viruses such as the “Win32/Polycrypt” as well as the “HACKTOOL.”

**Here is the Link To the post about “Win32/Polycrypt” Virus

**Here is the Link To the post about “HACKTOOL” Virus

So this time AVIRA fails because of the 3 times AVIRA FREE ANTI-VIRUS was 100% completely compromised to the point of going back to a last Window’s RESTORE POINT or Un-Installing AVIRA then RE-Installing AVIRA all together..

- Speed of Scan – Passed – Way better then AVG, AVAST and PC Tools Free Anti-Virus

- Does AVIRA do automatic updates by itself - Acceptable – There has been some major issues as of  late with automatic updates. Not to mention there is still the nag or ad screen showing up 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 – Failed – You have to change default setting to even pick up one Internet cookie.

-  Spyware/Adware – Failed – Seems to have missed every types of Spyware/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: 4 Passed, 3 Acceptable, 3 Failed (Total # of tests done 10)

Till my next post,

Se7en