Avira Premium Security Suite 9 review

Operating system support: Windows 7?

With Windows 7 due for release next month, will you be adding it as an option to forthcoming review 'specs' section 'Operating system support' ?

By ckbridge1 on 9 Sep 2009

Cost

After doing some research into what secuirty suite to get for my new machine and my license expiring in January, i thought it would be worth sharing my thoughts. Avira although i would to run is simply too exepnsive, it currently runs at £54 on their website which is seemingly the only place to obtain it from for a 3 machine licence. Kaspersky 2010 (my current suite) is currently retailing for £23.99 on amazon for a 3 machine licence and Norton Internet Security 2010 for £32.99 unfortunately for me it comes down to price; is Avira really worth a £30 mark up from other leading vendors? with such high scores surely they should be pushing their product better than this?

By jt1985 on 17 Oct 2009

Windows 7 & Avira Premium Suite 2009

Hi there,
After having Avira running without any problems for about 10 months I have just installed W7HP and it seems to have disabled all of the Avira protection! Firewall, Malware the lot. Try as I might I cannot get Avira to run normally. Anyone any thoughts?
Many thanks
Neil

By Havoc57 on 19 Nov 2009

No Network drive scanning!!!!!!!!!

thanks goodness there's a trial for this. I gave up with Kaspersky hogging my CPU and thought I'd try Avira. Initial impressions were very good. Lightweight, fast, configurable. Turned up 17 trojans, viruses etc on the first scan. However I cannot beleive PC Pro didn't mention that the Premium suite won't let me scan my NAS!!! This is ridiculous and is a deliberate choice by Avira. Basically they say buy the Workstation version of Antivir. I looked up in their forums and it is abundantly clear tht they aren't going to add that feature. So I'll be moving to something else....

By arm45217 on 23 Nov 2009

Avira is pretty good except..

..it is causing Windows 7 to do a checkdisk at every reboot.

Not harmfull, but irritating.

By cheysuli on 1 Dec 2009

Works fine in Windows 7 for me

I have had no problems in WIndows 7 (64bit) with Avira 9 or 10. The 3 month free trial is a nice touch, but not being able to scan my NAS is irritating....I used to use NIS - an old version but got tired of it's sluggishness.

By arm45217 on 2 Apr 2010