Review: Avira Internet Security 2013: Competent but confusing

January 29, 2013

Avira Internet Security 2013 is an acceptable antivirus program—if you happento be an expert in security jargon and working your way through a somewhatunfriendly user interface. This particular security suite passed our tests (though,not with flying colors) and even managed to come out on top a couple of times,but it’s not for the average user. In our real-world attack test, Avira managed to completely block 94.4 percentof attacks, and partially block 5.6 percent of attacks. This indicates how wellthe product will block new malware threats when it encounters them in the wild.While this result is solid, it’s not good enough compared to the top competitors:Five out of the 10 security suites we tested managed to completely block allattacks. In our malware-zoo detection test, which determines how well a product candetect f known malware, Avira detected 98.8 percent of samples. Althoughrespectable, this percentage still puts Avira in the bottom half of the suites wetested—six suites managed 99 percent or higher detection. Avira was able to detect and disable 100 percent of malware infections in oursystem cleanup test, but was only able to purge them completely about 50percent of the time: That’s the worst cleanup rate of the suites we tested. Aviradid perform impressively well in our false positives test; it didn't flag a single safefile as malicious. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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