AntiVir® Updates

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The private and individual use of the AntiVir Personal Edition Classic is completely free of charge! The reliability of AntiVir is demonstrated in numerous comparison test and references featured in independent trade journals. The AntiVir PersonalEdition offers effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. In order to make possible an easy operation, the AntiVir PersonalEdition is developed to the essential points.

The new AntiVir Personal Edition Premium provides more security for viruses, worms and Trojans The comprehenive security of the cost-free version is supplemented with useful features in security and comfort by the Premium Version of the known and popular AntiVir software:

• Adware/Spyware detection
• Fully automated update function
• POP3-Scanner
• Exclusive download server
• New graphic surface
• Scan function for directories
• Cooperation with the Auerbach foundation

System: Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP)

AntiVir Personal Edition Classic - Linux / FreeBSD / Solaris
The private, non-commercial use of AntiVir Workstation for Linux / FreeBSD / Solaris is free!
A registration of the AntiVir PersonalEdition Calssic Workstation for Linux is not necessary any more.
The licence file is now included in the download tar file

Product Info: AntiVir® Personal

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Avira AntiVir v9 released March 17, 2009

Release information

The new version number 9 should be reflected in all version numbers; however, there might still be some modules with other version numbers.

Please note the entries for the change to version 9 in our FAQs: http://www.avira.com/en/support/faq.html

Long list of changes and other info:
http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php...858#post750858

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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...ate-system/en/

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