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Avira Free Antivirus is a leading antivirus solution that offers solid protection for data, privacy and keeping your computer clean for malware.
Avira Free Antivirus is, as its name perfectly suggests, a free antivirus software created by Avira, with a wide utilization by computer users and a huge prestige earned by now. It efficiently protects your computer against most malware, including worms, rootkits, dialers and more. The Protection Cloud Technology offers an early-warning system that checks the unknown files in the cloud, anonymously, from millions of users, to protect you from threats as they emerge in real-time. In addition to its improved performance, especially for real-time security on your Internet connections and e-mail, Avira Free Antivirus offers a new repair system: when a virus is detected and removed, it automatically cleans the registry and system files where the virus could have left traces. You also benefit from protection against the newest developed Trojans, worms or viruses due to the software’s periodically database updates.
2015-02-12: Version 2015, Update 8
General Information:
Avira Antivirus for Windows, version 2015 update 8 has been released on February 12th, 2015.
Improvements:
Revised update mechanism offering more flexibility and better support for scenarios using a proxy
Additional sensors for Behavior-based Detection have been implemented
The Avira Free Antivirus detection update frequency has been increased (default frequency is set on 2h, same as Avira Antivirus Pro)
New installations include the new update frequency:
Existing installations will not be updated by default. The 2h interval of the detection update has to be set manually by the user (An automatic change of existing installations will be presumably implemented with a future update)
Bug fixes
There are no bug fixes for this update.