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Offline roddy32

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AntiVir® PersonalEdition Updates
« on: January 16, 2006, 12:20:42 AM »


Avira AntiVir Premium provides professional protection against viruses and malware, worms, Trojans, adware, Spyware and phishing.
With real-time on-access scanning, profile-based on-demand scans and scheduling of full system scanning and updates it offers premium protection. It includes a POP3 based MailScanner that scans emails before they are stored on your machine.
With a user-friendly control center, quarantine management, fast performance and world leading detection rates the Avira AntiVir Premium provides essential protection for your PC.
Advanced protection: Includes basic antivirus protection PLUS: email protection (POP3) , AntiPhishing, AntiSpyware, AntiAdware and more.

• Protection  viruses, worms and Trojans   
• Protection against expensive dialers   
• Detects and deletes rootkits   
• NEW: Raised scan speed   
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• Protection against phishing   
• Protection against spyware   
• Special protection against email viruses (POP 3)   
• Fast updates through Premium Server   
• 5 Euro donation to Auerbach Foundation   
• Protection against annoying adware   
• NEW: System to create a Rescue-CD

Product Info: AntiVir® Personal
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Re: AntiVir® PersonalEdition Updates
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2009, 04:47:30 PM »
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Avira switches to new update system

November 19, 2009, 7:30 am

Due to the fast growing amount of malware out there in the wild our virus definition files grow fast as well. We monitored the situation with our Updates very closely. We realise that users of the free Avira AntiVir Personal had issues fetching the Updates in time recently and did come up with a few ideas how we could solve the problem and to better satisfy the needs of our users.

Two of the results are getting realized today: First, we switch from our current virus definition files (called iVDF) to a new format called nVDF. iVDF consists of 4 VDF files, while nVDF uses at least 32 files – we need to transfer less data for updating our virus definitions effectively in the future.

This means that we need to deliver about 25 MByte to every Avira installation starting today for switching to the new update system. This might lead to some delays for some users, especially for the users of our free version Avira AntiVir Personal. Just to get an idea about what we’re talking here: More than 100.000.000 Users are trying to get the update more or less on the same day. That is more than 2.5 Petabytes (or 2,500 Terabytes) of traffic.

To ease the bandwidth bottleneck, we decided to additionally use a Content Delivery Network (CDN). We were first testing a CDN built up by our current Internet service provider. Shortly after activating the CDN, the redirectors – which redirect the update requests to servers close to the users location – were overloaded and couldn’t answer the requests anymore. The situation was solved a little later on, but the CDN isn’t big enough yet to spread this huge update in time. So we decided to switch to a global player in the CDN market to deliver the update.

We hope that the data is transfered much faster this way so also the users of free Avira AntiVir Personal can enjoy their security solution without any problems: After this Update the situation will get much better for the users of Avira AntiVir Personal.

N.B.: Users of commercial Avira products like Avira AntiVir Premium, Avira Premium Security Suite or Avira AntiVir Professional don’t face any of these problems as they access our servers with reserved bandwidth.

Dirk Knop
Technical Editor

http://techblog.avira.com/2009/11/19/avira-switches-to-new-update-system/en/
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Re: AntiVir® PersonalEdition Updates
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2011, 03:11:43 PM »
Update information is discontinued for this product due to the inclusion/bundling and/or default (pre-checked) opt-out installation of the Ask Toolbar and Search Assistant.  In the event you elect to continue using this product, we recommend that you regularly check for updates.

Avira has also replaced the Avira Personal Free edition notifier advertising Uniblue "Registry Booster".  Additionally, licensed users of Avira Premium are receiving e-mails advertising the same Uniblue "Registry Booster" product.   (See Avira AntiVir Adds Ask Toolbar and Scareware PopUp for additional information.)

Further information on products including the "pay-per-install" IAC product is available at Calendar of Updates, Products with Ask Toolbar.

For background information about IAC/Ask practices, see the topics below.


LandzDown Forum Members' attention is also directed to Calendar Of Updates Installers Hall of Shame which include toolbars and other potentially unwanted add-ons.  Please be alert to the installation process any time you are installing a new software.

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