Avira Antivirus

Avira AntiVir Personal is for personal use only and free of charge. Like most antivirus software, it scans disks for malware and also runs as a background process, checking each opened and closed file. It can detect and possibly remove rootkits.[1] It also performs Internet updates (daily by default) in which it opens a window, with an advertisement suggesting that the user purchase Avira AntiVir Premium. Avira updated all their products to version 9.0 as of March 2009.

As a free service, Avira offers a bootable rescue CD to all users, regardless of whether they have any Avira products installed (free or non-free), and irrespective of the machine's operating system. This CD contains its own bootable Linux-based operating system as well as the AntiVir program and its latest virus database. If a computer cannot be booted, the CD may be used to boot the machine into the AntiVir program, then to scan for and remove detectable viruses and other malware, thereby possibly restoring normal boot and operation. 

Avira AntiVir Premium has several improvements over the free version, most notably:

Email scanning (POP3 and SMTP) 

WebGuard to block access to malicious sites

http://www.free-av.com

click here to Download

Avira Update

Current virus information – indispensable to protect your system

The number of new viruses and malware is increasing continually. The AntiVir products supply such a professional virus and malware protection through a so-called virus definition file, which is updated several times a day.


AntiVir incremental VDF update (IVDF) (Unicode

Update for: Unicode-aware Products of Avira Antivir Windows Professional, Avira AntiVir Premium, Avira Premium Security Suite and Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus on Windows XP, 2000 and Windows Vista.

Download IVDF (Unicode)


Beta-VDF and Beta-Engine

All Avira virus definition files (VDFs) and the Avira search engine are thoroughly tested before they are made available on the download servers. This test period does of course broaden the time span between putting new detection patterns into the VDF or new exploits into the engine and their publication.

However, there might be certain scenarios in which it is primarily important to get the most recent VDFs and engine versions as early as possible. For such cases Avira provides untested, so called Beta-VDFs and Beta-Engine versions for downloading.

Beta-VDF and Beta-Engine download