Avira antivirus software

[truenorth]

Greetings,Recently uninstalled AVG 8.01,Had some problems with Avast. Anyone tried and have opinions on "Avira" Thank you,truenorth

[evilfantasy]

Avira is a very good AV and I have heard it has made some good improvements recently. Many swear by it.

[truenorth]

With reference to Avira--while i am far from an expert on it and due to only very recently have installed it i cannot with credibility comment on it's efficacy. I will say the following;when you download the file you automatically get a licence key that is generated without your input. However it may be your experience (as it was mine) that the key installed is already out of date (mine was for May 31st and i didn't download the program until June 2ND).The result of this is that you will not be able to "update" the virus definitions. Without a valid key you cannot interact with their site. In order to find out how to get a valid key i found it necessary to join the forum for Avira. It took a bit of back and forthing before that issue got solved. All this to say it looks like a good program but if you try to get it on your computer it may take a bit of effort. truenorth