Avira AntiVir, good replacement for MSSE?

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Looking to try a different Antivirus program because i'm having a few problems with msse enabling on start up, i've heard that Avira AntiVir is pretty good. Don't want a system hog too.

Cheers guys.
 
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This is just my opinion but the last time I used Avira it threw up far too many false positives for my liking to the extent that it became seriously intrusive and annoying.

I much prefer the calm and subtle protection that Avast affords. ;)
 
Just too add, I used Avira for a couple of years (I now use a paid NOD32) and it is THE best for a free anti-virus. But like i said, check Comodo for all round protection.
 
There is various other sites reporting AVG to be Numero Uno, I dont believe that either.

Everyone has an opinion and based on the above opinions, ^^these above products would be the ones for the OP to try out for himself and decide upon.

:)
 
The last time I installed MSE on a bunch of office PCs running WinXP, it rendered them completely unusable... memory usage directly after a cold boot jumped up to around ~650MB, which was rather sad as they only had 512MB physical memory apiece. Prior to installing MSE they'd been hovering around the 150-200MB mark, and even uninstalling MSE didn't fix things, I ended up having to restore from previous system images to get memory usage back to sane levels.

I'm not sure if it was a bug which has since been fixed, but I don't feel inclined to try again, particularly as MSE doesn't seem to be a particularly strong performer these days in any case: http://www.av-test.org/certifications?order=protection_desc&lang=en

I tried Avira and found it to be a dog, its definition updates were hopelessly unreliable and it had an enormous, silly popup - yes, there are ways to kill the latter, but you shouldn't have to.

So I'd go with Avast out of the free AVs, but only on the basis that it's the best of a bad lot - they're all horrible IMHO, and only for use on someone else's PC where you know they'll be doing "stuff" which you're unable to continuously monitor and supervise, and some protection is better than nothing in that situation.
 
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Tried MSE its nice and finds the bugs quite accuratly and scanning is ok but not that fast/great... also bugs u a lot having to reboot just to remove the virus it finds but most AV has to do that anyhow.

Been a big fan of Avira, its fast/low memory usage and does the job well havent seen it pick up much false bugs either.

Ive recently retried Nod32 and so far its faster/lighter and doing a better job at finding viruses/malware that even kaspersky and Avira couldnt find.

Have not tried Avast in years, but its sounding like its improved a lot.
 
I've used Avira for many years now and it's never let me down. I went through a phase of changing AV's every couple of months but I always ended up going back to Avira for it's light resource use and excellent detection rates.
 
Been a user of Avira for about 4+years, but moved over to Kaspersky which i get for free from barclays. Avira threw too many false positives up, and for some strange reason, Avira wouldn't ignore them despite me telling it to do so many times.
 
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