

Bigger is better for PCMark 8 and Avira showed a pretty good increase, suggesting that overall users should not see any significant performance impact running Avira. The online protection rate was 99.98 percent.įor our in-house tests, Avira lived up to its performance promises scoring 2,441 in the PCMark 8 Work Conventional test without Avira installed, and a score of 2,501 after Avira was installed and the system ran a full scan. In the malware protection test, also carried out in September 2018, Avira had a 99.9 percent online detection rate with two false alarms, and a 96.6 percent offline detection rate. Over at AV-Comparatives, Avira blocked 99.5 percent of the threats and had one false positive against 197 samples in the real-world protection test for September 2018. For those same months, Antivirus Pro earned a 99.9 percent against nearly 20,000 samples for AV-Test’s “widespread and prevalent malware” test. For July and August, Antivirus Pro earned a 100 percent performance against the zero-day, web, and email threats test that included 275 samples. PerformanceĪvira Antivirus Pro 2019 earned high rankings from testing house AV-Test.
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The Quarantine section is where evil files go to die, and Activity shows the Antivirus program’s recent history such as whether an update failed or succeeded, when the last scan was, and so on. Visually the graphics are a little different, the color shades are deeper, and the scan button is now green instead of white.Īvira Anrtivirus Pro 2019’s Activity section. Overall, this area is the same as it was last year. There’s also a Run a quick scan button that takes up a big chunk of the window, as well as a message informing you when the last scan was. Status shows the active protection features in Antivirus Pro and what their states are. On the left rail are five menu options: Status (the default landing area), Scan, Modules, Quarantine, and Activity. Once we arrive in the A/V program itself, we’re greeted with the current status of our machine at the top with the standard green motif for safe and red for problems.
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There’s an option to install other pieces that are part of the Avira Prime suite, but in this case we want to open up Antivirus Pro. You start with a dashboard that shows all the Avira components installed on your system. IDGĪs for the core product, Antivirus Pro 2019, not a whole lot has changed. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them. Note: This review is part of our best antivirus roundup.
