I have visited PIKOM PC Fair KLCC last week and i witnessed some of the consumers have been misleading by some of the Avira sales promoters with inaccurate information. And I’m very sad to see 1 or 2 victims have been wasted their money on this.

Avira as a free antivirus edition has already been bitten by AVG and Avast with a big gap. Avira is already not a good choice for free antivirus and there is no reason for anyone to spend their hard-earned money to buy Avira that cannot protect their PC.

Avira would continue to promote this bad product with misleading information to the public, and layman like me and you.

"I really hope this company would develop some business ethics soon."

Please download the report for your own reference.





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 avtest_report_avira_112235.pdf ( 133.98k ) Number of downloads: 109

Unbelievable, a bad day for Avira.

should be PIKOM Digital Lifestyle Expo
not PIKOM PC fair

This post has been edited by XeactorZ: Aug 5 2011, 12:21 PM

kaspersky internet security is superb

I thought AVIRA was no 1 AV, and its engine SAVAPI is being used by its competitor like Karspersky and Swift.

hmm i have been a avira fans since i first use it. now i might reconsider

add-on: i look in the report, avira not bad la. as u can see they have improve from april to june

so.. avast is the best??

i'm not too sure, but i always perceive that a free version and a paid version have different caliber in their ability to detect and clean viruses. and also the frequency and how fast they update their definitions.

i'm only using microsoft's security essentials, which i wonder if it actually works at all...haha! but so far my pc has been clean of virus or malware or those stuff. at the end of the day, it's how u use ur pc, cincai cucuk pendrive here and there n then to ur pc, u r bound to get STD...i mean viruses.

All AV software are same, the rest depends on you how to prevents and don't so itchy hands to click2 the weird things lol

indeed...

i used to use kaspersky, also end up makan virus that cant be cleaned until need reformat...

now i dont even have any antivirus, just be more aware of what you click & download... and dont simply plug removeable drives, lol

use Comodo Internet Security, a free internet security suite. so far so good. better than avira a lot

to me no matter how strong AV was told.. it still depends on you surfing ethics.. im still AVIRA and whatever result that comes out,as long im using it ok.. that result means nothing:D

but for new user,they might change their mind

All you need is a good antivirus (which doesn't really matters to me, I'm using Avira free right now), Malwarebytes anti Malware, and common sense.

Virus-free since forever.

The way to test out the antivirus is improper. They take from the users as sample randomly, and we did know how is the users surfing behaviour. So at the first place the detection rate is wrong, and the number of malware encounters is wrong too.

The research is useless, if they did not setup up an environment just for the testing purpose, instead of grab information from public users. For your information, users have choice to not update the detected malware to the antivirus hosting server also.

When come to antivirus, there's no so called the strongest or whatever. Those researching company did that just to grab attention for better commercial purpose. The best is thing still, stop those crap discussion and bring it on to better computer surfing behaviour and awareness.

I second that chrisling.

totally agrred with you tat Avira is a piece of crap.

I have genuine copy of Avira (Free gift from Magazine subscription).

I know my computer got virus and Avira can detect it but can't remove it.

At the end of it I use chinese Anti virus 360 to clean it.

I do agree with that. Sometimes I do some checking on my computer by checking the logs of hjt or dds or otl to determine whether my computer is infected or not.

according to av-test.org, the jack of all trade is bitdefender... interesting... I haven't tried it yet.
http://www.av-test.org/certifications

bitdefender? haha totally out of the blue for me

you dont have to

i'm still with avira though..last time AVG

if you dont want to waste money,go for free..im using avira free edition and it works like a charm

last time i switched from avg coz it started to act up n slowed down my pc. Don't know why though

real man not use antivirus...

how about a women then

they just get infected with malware then google the planet for solution hahahha.
n00b.

i already try kaspersky intenet security 2012 and bitdefender internet security 2012. in term of detection, i can said both are same. the major different, bitdefender pawn kaspersky in term of scanning speed. (very fast!)

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Added on September 7, 2011, 7:45 pmagreed.



This post has been edited by wanakev2: Sep 7 2011, 07:45 PM

HE Use Mac bro..
very little attack by virus

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Added on September 29, 2011, 1:25 pmbit defender still the best...haha

im using McFee which dont hv certification
but so far its good than My previous free edition Avira and Avg

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Added on September 29, 2011, 1:25 pmMcFee Trier..

This post has been edited by diadokmai: Sep 29 2011, 01:25 PM

avira sucks...better buy kapersky or panda....now cheap...only rm35 for one user

is it true?? so i need to change my antivirus then

Antivirus 360 itself is a virus..

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-remo...e-antivirus-360

a computer enthusiasts like me noe how to prevent spyware/worm/virus/trojan ...

in my mindset for this 5 years and upcoming ...i tink av/is is too much =.="

yes..i still remember during 2005 im download a virus definition at 9MB..
right now..
Virus definition already exceeding 100Mb