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Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8

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    5 stars

    Version: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 8

    "The best free virus protection on the market"

    by goldengreeke on July 6, 2008

    Pros: Simple to use, great detection rate, and daily updates.

    Cons: The huge nag screen asking you to purchase, that pops up during daily updates, will drives you crazy.

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  • reply by: musicman4you on July 12, 2008

    Okay I hope Im not breaking any rules here but I can't post a link so here are the virus scanner results found on Google below....................................[ scan result ]

    AhnLab-V3 2008.5.30.1/20080530 found nothing

    AntiVir 7.8.0.25/20080530 found [TR/Dldr.WMA.Wimad.N]

    Authentium 5.1.0.4/20080531 found nothing

    Avast 4.8.1195.0/20080530 found nothing

    AVG 7.5.0.516/20080530 found [Downloader.Wimad.E]

    BitDefender 7.2/20080531 found nothing

    CAT-QuickHeal 9.50/20080530 found nothing

    ClamAV 0.92.1/20080531 found nothing

    DrWeb 4.44.0.09170/20080530 found [Trojan.Click.18899]

    eSafe 7.0.15.0/20080529 found nothing

    eTrust-Vet 31.4.5837/20080530 found nothing

    Ewido 4.0/20080530 found nothing

    F-Prot 4.4.4.56/20080531 found nothing

    F-Secure 6.70.13260.0/20080531 found [Trojan-Downloader.WMA.Wimad.n]

    Fortinet 3.14.0.0/20080530 found nothing

    GData 2.0.7306.1023/20080531 found [Trojan-Downloader.WMA.Wimad.n]

    Ikarus T3.1.1.26.0/20080531 found nothing

    Kaspersky 7.0.0.125/20080531 found [Trojan-Downloader.WMA.Wimad.n]

    McAfee 5307/20080530 found [Downloader-UA]

    Microsoft None/20080531 found nothing

    NOD32v2 3148/20080530 found nothing

    Norman 5.80.02/20080530 found nothing

    Panda 9.0.0.4/20080531 found nothing

    Prevx1 V2/20080531 found nothing

    Rising 20.46.50.00/20080531 found nothing

    Sophos 4.29.0/20080531 found nothing

    Sunbelt 3.0.1139.1/20080529 found nothing

    Symantec 10/20080531 found nothing

    VBA32 3.12.6.6/20080531 found nothing

    VirusBuster 4.3.26:9/20080530 found nothing

    Webwasher-Gateway 6.6.2/20080530 found [Trojan.Dldr.WMA.Wimad.N]

  • reply by: musicman4you on July 12, 2008

    Avira just detected the new virus TR/Dldr.WMA.Wimad.N while I was downloading some MP3's on Limwire so I quarentined them and just did a Google search on this virus and guess what..? Norton and Avast are not finding this virus and many others are not..Kaspersky and AVG did find it like Avira and this is not a false positive..This is a new virus and there is a warning on google about it and you can also find the Antivirus Programs that are finding it and the ones that are not...I am very careful about the size of MP3's or anything else on P2P sites when downloading.Don't download anything below 1,000kb for a MP3 and no way download the smaller 94.5kb for a MP3..Most are good if 3,000kb or more but now you can't tell..The 2 that I just got the viruses Avira found were 5,451kb and not small....Since I can't post a link just Google TR/Dldr.WMA.Wimad.N and read about this virus.Thank You Avira for finding this...I feel safer with Avira than anything right now.If you are not using Avira be careful downloading music MP3's...

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