Weak against rootkits. Phishing protection misses much. Spam filter significantly slowed mail download. Bare-essentials parental control easily defeated. Rudimentary backup.
The antivirus component is the best part of this suite, with good malware cleanup and better real-time protection. Phishing protection and parental control, however, are not so hot. Overall it's a good suite, but not a great one.
security suite from Avira came out early in 2010, almost a year and a half ago. With the release of Avira Internet Security 2012 ($59.99, direct; $89.99 for 3 licenses), Avira has now joined the model-year cycle like most of its competition. Some of this suite's components are quite good, others not so hot.
The latest suite's appearance is quite a departure from that of Avira Premium Security Suite 10 ($79.95 direct for three licenses, 2.5 stars). In fact, the suite and standalone antivirus have the same layout and controls. In the free standalone antivirus the suite-only controls are simply disabled.
protection against Malware and Phishing
The good people at Avira want to make sure everyone can have protection against viruses and other malware, so they pack their toughest malware protection into the free antivirus. The suite offers the same protection, so I'll simply summarize my findings here. For full details please read my review of Avira Free Antivirus 2012 (Free, 4 stars).
Almost all of the independent labs that I follow include Avira's technology in their testing, and they give it generally good marks. It attained the highest rating in on-demand and retrospective tests by AV-Comparatives.org, but only just achieved certification in whole-protect tests by AV-Test.org.
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