The AntiVir Personal Edition offers the effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. In order to make possible an easy operation, the AntiVir Personal Edition is developed to the essential points. Even though viruses have now grown very numerous, one thing hasn't changed: our commitment to provide you with all-round protection. The reliability of AntiVir is demonstrated in numerous comparison test and references featured in independent trade journals.
Features of Avira Free Antivirus 2012 :
· detects and removes more than 150,000 viruses
· always among the winners of comparison test featured in computer journals
· the resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically, e.g. downloading of data from the internet
· scanning and repair of macro viruses
· protection against previously unknown macro viruses
· safeguard against cost generating dial-up program
· protection against trojaner, worms, backdoors, jokes and other harmful programs
· easy operation
· Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating
· Protection against previously unknown boot record viruses and master boot record viruses
· Quality "Made in Germany"
· support is free of charge via AntiVir Bulletin Board
What's New in Avira Free Antivirus 2012 :
· Quarantine manager: the number of columns has been reduced
· Quarantine manager: send files using HTTP
· System tray tool: display the status of modules on mouse-over
· Last system scan: individual configuration of the alert message
· Renaming "Win32 Heuristic" to "AHeAD" in the configuration panel
· Support for netbooks (screen resolution)
· Configuration panel: new button "Default Values". This button allows you to restore the configuration to the predefined default values
· New installation folder and registry keys for all products: "C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop" and "HKLM\Software\Avira\AntiVir Desktop".Now there are no differences between the products AntiVir Personal, AntiVir Premium and Premium Security Suite any longer
· Configuration wizard after setup
· Process protection for GUI processes
· File and folder protection for AntiVir files and folders
· Registry protection for AntiVir keys
· Scanning of locked files
· Scanner: combined display of malware detections and one-click removal after an on demand scan. This option can be set in the scanner configuration
· Scanner: improved system disinfection
· Scanner: optimized scan on multi-processor machines
· Guard: less overhead in memory
· Scheduler: scheduling on multiple days of the week
· Scheduler: manual starting and stopping of jobs
· Ad-/Spyware detection
· New scanner profil "Scn for active rootkits and malware"
· No avgntflt timeouts because of activated / deactivated ProActiv anymore
· No ProActiv warnings anymore because of several actions
· Outgoing emails are not discarded anymore under certain circumstances and T-Online
· Firewall application rules are not lost under Windows 2000 anymore
· Fixed crash in AntiVir Scanner "Luke Filewalker"
· Correction of ressource consumption in Firewall application
· Correction of MailGuard connected to IMAP
· Correction of MailGuard for use with Thunderbird 3.1
