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Spring cleaning your computer

We are now close to the end of April and the spring is everywhere. Some people are used to perform a general cleaning of their houses and gardens.   What about your computer? Don’t you plan to do the same? … Continue reading

Avira Free Mac Security

Avira launches a new product for Apple MacOS systems at the end of March 2012. It is called Avira Free Mac Security and it is a free-of-charge product for both consumers and businesses. The first version will be available in … Continue reading

Improve your security series

I have seen in various forums and on Facebook some of these links used and I thought it would be handy to see them all in one post. So, here they are sorted in chronological order, each linked to the … Continue reading

Upgrade your Antivir Personal version 2010 to the Avira Free Antivirus

If you are using the Antivir Personal version 2010 you should have already received the slideup to upgrade your product to the latest (and greatest) version 2012 called now Avira Free Antivirus. Once you click on that link and you … Continue reading

Upgrade your Antivir Premium version 2010 to the Avira Antivirus Premium 2012(Update)

If you are using the Antivir Premium version 2010 you should have already received the slideup to upgrade your product to the latest (and greatest) version 2012. Once you click on that link and you will be redirected on this … Continue reading

Avira products version 2012 for Windows now available for beta testing

Finally, we are ready to reveal the next generation of Avira security products. No, they are not yet officially released, but they are available for public beta testing. They can be downloaded from our brand new beta portal available at … Continue reading

Microsoft Patchday on July 12

Since next week  is the second week of July, we are going to have the Microsoft Patchday on Tuesday. Microsoft published four bulletins for the upcoming patch day on July 12th. One of these patches is issued as critical and … Continue reading

Service Pack 2 for Avira AntiVir v10 (Update)

Eight months after the release of the SP1 on November 2nd 2010,  we deliver the Service Pack 2 to all AntiVir v10 products today: Personal, Premium, Premium Security Suite, Professional and Server. Avira’s Service Pack 2 update will be made … Continue reading

Avira receives AV-Test.org certificate

Great news – our Avira Premium Security Suite received the next AV-Test.org certificate, this time for the first quarter of 2011! So far the suite thus achieved all available AV-Test.org certificates since the beginning of the certification process. The certificate … Continue reading

Yet another VB100 award

The series continues – Avira AntiVir Personal and Avira AntiVir Professional received the April 2011 VB100 award! The tests were executed in a Windows XP SP3 environment by the Virus Bulletin test engineers. The Avira anti malware solutions performed very … Continue reading