Avira Free Antivirus 2014 Version 14.0.1.749

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Avira Free Antivirus is an interesting virus protection software, which will protect your computer from spyware, rootkits, worms, phishing, hoaxes, malware, and vulnerabilities in general, and that will detect malicious files too. The novelties of this freeware have been focused on website verification, tracker blocking and covering social networks.

The toolbar this software includes has been integrated in our daily safe browsing by eliminating the annoying pop-up windows and adware. This tool now includes a website reputation adviser, social network protection and CallingID technologies. Avira Free Antivirus simplifies your work checking if everything is correct while you’re surfing the Net. One of the newest characteristics of its toolbar is the ‘Expert Market’ feature, which is exclusively accessible from it and where people can request tech support easier. 

The file protection engine is constantly and automatically updating itself each 6 hours, which makes it a really accurate utility. Besides, this freeware can be combined with a smartphone app which provides anti-theft and device tracking options. However, we don’t recommend it because it doesn’t have a security engine, which means that it won’t protect you against malware. As a conclusion, Avira Free Antivirus is a must-have security suite which offers a great amount of options, more than other similar antiviruses such as BitDefender, Antivir or Kaspersky.

How to use this software

Avira Free Antivirus offers you several possibilities and options for keeping your computer protected. Once you run it for the first time, you will see that there are lots of options in the main interface. Then in the left column, called PC Protection, you will find the following features: Real-time Protection, Scan System (which will tell you when you performed the last scan) and Start Update (which will show you when the last update took place). 

At the end of that column you will see an option to upgrade your security, listing some tips to be better protected. Inside the ‘System Scanner’ option you will see several secondary possibilities such as scanning specific files or including additional settings. In that way you will know if your system has vulnerabilities, suspicious files, rootkits, worms, hoaxes, phishing, malware, spyware or any kind of virus. Besides, Avira Free Antivirus has an internet-update detailed virus database, due to the fact that hackers are trying to improve and create new techniques to attack our computers. The right column is specialized in Internet protection, so you will have options such as activating your firewall, web and mail protection, safe browsing or even game mode. In case you find it a bit complicated at the beginning, you will be given the possibility to contact with a security expert to ask for some help.