Avira Antivirus – Free Download avira antivir personal, scan and protect your computer system from viruses, trojan, root-kits, dialer, backdoor client and other malware.It constantly monitors every user action and reacts promptly as soon as it detects a malicious program.
Avira Antivir Personal is another popular and free antivirus solution that is available for both windows and Linux operating systems.It scans the computer for all known antivirus and other malicious programs.
Avira Antivir constantly monitors every user action and reacts promptly, as soon as it detects a malicious program! The following are the important functionality offered by free Avira Antivir Personal.
- Control Center for monitoring, administering and controlling the entire program
- Central configuration with user-friendly standard and advanced options and context-sensitive help
- Scanner (On-Demand Scan) with profile-controlled and configurable scan for all known types of virus and malware
- Guard (On-Access Scan) for continuous monitoring of all file access attempts
- Integrated quarantine management to isolate and process suspicious files
- Root-kit protection for detecting hidden malware installed in your computer system (root-kits). this is however not available under Windows XP 64 bit)
- Direct access to detailed information on the detected viruses and malware via the Internet
- Simple and quick updates to the program, virus definitions, and search engine through Single File Update and incremental VDF updates via a web server on the Internet
- Integrated Scheduler for planning one-off or recurring jobs such as updates or scans
- Extremely high virus and malware detection via innovative scanning technology (scan engine) including heuristic scanning method
- Detection of all conventional archive types including detection of nested archives and smart extension detection
- High-performance multi threading function (simultaneous high-speed scanning of multiple files)

How to do scan the computer system for virus and malware with free Avira Antivir Personal
An on-demand scan for viruses and malware can be performed by using a Scan Profile. A scan profile is a set of drives and directories to be scanned. You can either use a predefined scan profile or customize and use the scan profile.
An on-demand scan for viruses and malware can also be performed by simply dragging and dropping the files into the control center.You can also right click a file and Select “Scan selected files with AntiVir” in the context menu. The “Luke Filewalker” window appears and an on-demand scan is started immediately.When the scan is completed, the results are displayed.
You can also create a job to automatically scan the computer system for viruses and malware.To create a job,
- In the Control Center, select the Management >> Scheduler section
- Click the Clock icon (with an overlapping + symbol) and it the result dialog box, give the job a name and, where appropriate, a description.
- In the next dialog box, select “Scan job”.
- The dialog box “Select profile” appears.Select the profile to be scanned.
- In the next dialog box, “Time of job”, select a suitable time for scheduling the scan job. you can also choose “Repeat job if the time has already expired” to carry out past jobs that could not run because the computer was switched off
- In the dialog box “Select display mode”, choose an appropriate display mode
- You can then Select the “Shut down computer” option if you want the computer to shut down automatically when the scan is finished. This option is only available if the display mode is set to minimized or maximized.
- Finally, click “Finish”
That is it!!! Your newly scheduled job appears as activated (check mark) on the homepage of the section Administration >> Scheduler.It should however be noted that after installing the free avira antivir, the scan job “Full system scan” is created in the Scheduler and a full system scan is automatically carried out at a recommended interval.
For each individual protection component of AntiVir Personal, you can define, how the free Avira AntiVir Personal shall react to a detected virus or unwanted program in the configuration.However, there are no configurable action options with the Guard component. When a virus or unwanted program is detected, you will receive a desktop notification. In the desktop notification you can remove the detected malware or forward the malware using the Details button to the Scanner component for further virus management. The Scanner opens a window containing notification of the detection, which gives you various options for managing the affected file via a context menu.
An infected file can be repaired, if possible.It can be deleted or renamed with a .vir extension so that no direct interaction with the file is possible.You can also choose to move the infected file to the quarantine directory “Infected”. Files in this directory can be repaired in Quarantine at a later data or, if necessary, sent to Avira GmbH.
Free download Avira antivir from here and install it.During installation of Avira antivir, you can choose to install the following components.
- AntiVir Personal – It contains all components required for successful installation of Avira AntiVir Personal.
- AntiVir Guard – The AntiVir Guard runs in the background. It monitors and repairs, if possible,files during operations such as open, write and copy in on-access mode.Whenever a user carries out a file operation (e.g. load document, execute, copy),Avira AntiVir Personal automatically scans the file. Renaming a file does not trigger a scan by AntiVir Guard.
- AntiVir Root-kit Protection – AntiVir Root-kit Protection checks whether software is already installed on your computer that can no longer be detected with conventional methods of malware protection after penetrating the computer system.
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