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A closer look at Avira AntiVir Personal Free Antivirus 9
by Zeljka Zorz - Tuesday, 19 May 2009.
Avira AntiVir Personal Free Antivirus is a comprehensive, easy to use antivirus program for home-users only. It offers malware recognition of viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, worms, incremental updates of antivirus signatures, permanent virus protection, scheduler, knowledge base with virus descriptions available on web site, rootkit detection and removal.
Upon finishing the installation of the program, a configuration wizard opens, and among other things, you can select which threat categories will be detected:
Upon starting, if you choose so, the program will perform immediately a scan:
By clicking on the Virus Information link, a new window with all kinds of information form Avira opens (just browse by links and tabs):
The Report button opens up a report in .txt format:
Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus is an extremely simple program to use, and offers all that the home user might need in view of computer protection.
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