Talk:Avira

message: I think this article deserves a section on how Avira products stack up against other popular Antivirus products (Ex. Norton & McAfee)... Or is there a seperate article for this? I havn't found it yet, but I think this is key information that should be present, if people are looking up antivirus products in an encyclopedia, they are most likely wondering which one they should dowload or purchase.
Personally, I prefer AntiVir personal edition over Norton Internet Security Suite, but I have my own biases against norton, so I can't really talk. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.28.14.129 (talk) 14:03, 27 November 2006 (GMT)
Well, for Norton's stuff, you'd have to pay for it. For one of Avira's stuff -doing the same thing as Nortan's AV does-, it's free of charge. That's my "personal bias".
88.105.85.109 (talk) 17:02, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How it stacks up 

message: I removed the prod because I disagree with the deletion of this article.
The user that added the prod stated that the article "gives no indication of satisfying, WP:V, WP:RS or WP:SOFTWARE".
While the article does not give any sources I think they shouldn't be that hard to add since most (if not all) that is in the article should be available at Aviras own site (www.avira.com), perhaps not the most unbiased of sources but good enough imo. And as for notability, fgi, "Results 1 - 10 of about 1,760,000 for avira".
Sure it is far from perfect but it does not deserve deletion. 
I'll see if I'll have the time to add some sources and perhaps improve the article a bit. Kattfisk 19:50, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of prod 

message: This article sucks compared to the articles on avast! and AVG Free. They're all free, why does this one suck so much?
:For the same reason that you did nothing to improve it. Ham Pastrami 14:54, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article expansion 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AVIRA_AV_window.png
Is this okay?
Shin-chan01 (talk) 17:27, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Get a more recent update and we can make that work ;) Actually, in all seriousness, it's fine but a bit large, I can fix that tho :) ♥ Fredil 20:10, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image Nomination 

message: Note to editors: the "comparative" test that they perform includes only actual virus samples. The "Retrospective" test includes testing for false positives. Keep this in mind when updating the "Detection ability" section. The software will ordinarily score higher on the comparative tests because its problem with false positives isn't measured in that test. I am editing the current wording to reflect this. Ham Pastrami 02:27, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to read AV-comparatives 

message: Avira is a major antivirus company. And it is not free in all cases. I have subscribed to it and i find it better than Mcafee. However, wikipedia's article about Mcafee seems way more detailed and attention oriented, whereas this article is too short. This gives an impression that the authors want to send the message that Mcafee is superior and Avira is inferior. This points to bias. All antivirus software articles should be of equal length and content. In most tests done, Avira outscored Mcafee or performed very good. Any antivirus expert would say that it is competitive to other programs. For example, the mcafee article not only even tells how much revenue mcafee makes but the picture of its corporate headquarters is also shown. When comparing the 2 articles, there seems to be way too much bias for Avira.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xyz9902003 (talk • contribs) 09:56, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Since McAfee is a larger corporation and its products are more widely used, it is only natural that Wikipedia's article on McAfee would be more detailed than the article on Avira. If you feel there are details that are left out of this article, consider helping expand it. Stephenchou0722 (talk) 22:16, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very Short article 

message: This needs to be called out, though it's pretty clear that someone from Avira has been watching this page and has been inserting POV at every opportunity, against WP:COI. Please be on the lookout for bias in the article. Ham Pastrami (talk) 11:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Just removed some bias.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.164.92.140 (talk) 20:29, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avira is editing this page 

message: I saw the message on the page, saying that the article was written rather like an advertisement.  After reading it, this doesn't seem to be the case anymore.  If you believe I am wrong, can you give me some examples (quotes form the article) of where you see bias? PlantRunner (talk) 03:28, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Give Examples of Bias? 

message: If AntiVir is a genuine product, then there is an imposter about also called AntiVir which itself is a virus.  There are various articles on the internet about this, although some of them are by antivirus firms who obviously might have an interest in selling their own products.  However, this article seems more balanced:
http://www.pc1news.com/news/1516/updated-antivir-solution-pro.html
Perhaps someone could clarify - my PC has certainly picked up this thing, and it wants to open every time I start my PC, and I just want rid of it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.50.177.101 (talk) 09:18, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Imposter 

message: First article I've ever merged, hope I didn't mess anything up.  If I did, please let me know.  PlantRunner (talk) 18:04, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  MERGED Avira Security Software with Avira 

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thread_title: File:New Avira logo.png Nominated for speedy Deletion

message: The information of this page is largely out-of-date.  Avira has dropped the name Antivir and calls the editions Avira Free Antivirus and Avira Antivirus Premium 2012.  See http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus.  Like its competitors Avira keeps adding more features to its free offering and that needs to be updated, too.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.56.197.231 (talk) 19:22, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I updated some parts of the information mentioned in the article. JuventiniFan (talk) 08:31, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  page now out-of-date 

message: I just installed the latest update and re-instated the toolbar, which I had disabled because had no use for that feature and I remove unnecessary toolbars. I promptly started receiving pop-up windows to install CIDGlobalLight from Global Light, which I found to be a Caller ID for the Interent. Damn thing has no use for me. This popped up at least 3 times every time I went to a new webpage and froze up EVERYTHING else until I clicked on it. Some morons just can't one 'No' for an answer, they have to bug you until someone freaks out. 
CONFIRMED as being associated with Avira; it disappeared when when I uninstalled the toolbar. (I wonder how long it will be before this message gets deleted by the Avira watchdogs.) CFLeon (talk) 07:45, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried to give Avira a second chance after getting some advice from some professional software people that I know. Damn crap keeps downloading automatic updates several times a day and gives you NO choice when, and then nags you constantly to reboot your system, but when you reboot, it automatically does ANOTHER update, then continues to bug you. It seems to be alright as an antivirus program, but it's not worth the damn trouble. I'm tired of jumping through their hoops so I deleted it and there will be NO third chance. CFLeon (talk) 11:11, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Virus?

message: Its antivirus icon change into shield logo (I will upload one of it, once it is available).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by BeemoZaslavskiMalvar (talk • contribs) 07:36, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avira Antivirus icon change (except its corporate logo) 

message: I noticed after updated my Avira Antivirus, the user interface is now resembling Avast Antivirus now. Hope someone can upload this and put on the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by BeemoZaslavskiMalvar (talk • contribs) 02:53, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avira GUI makes more Avast-like interface now