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Avira AntiVir Personal 8.1

Avira 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.

What is Avira AntiVir Personal 8.1 ?
AntiVir Personal 8.1 free antivirus is freeware. The application is for personal use only. Like most antivirus software, it scans disks for viruses and also runs as a background process, checking each opened and closed file. It can detect and possibly remove rootkits. It also performs Internet updates (daily by default) in which it opens a window, with an advertisement suggesting the user to purchase AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium.

Avira AntiVir Personal 8.1 Features:
+ 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

Avira AntiVir Personal 8.1 has license: Freeware
File Size: 21.28 MB
Freeware AntiVir Personal 8.1 Requirements:
- Windows 2000/XP/Vista/XP64/Vista64