Panda versus Avira, which is best?

firbyfred

I am going to set this up for my father in law tomorrow.
I have downloaded Avira from File Hippo (to save me time) and saved it onto a usb stick, I presume I should be able to download it with no problems from the usb stick onto his computer after I have uninstalled Panda?

mr_fishbulb

firbyfred wrote: »

Will he notice any difference with Avira?

Unless you do something funky with the file permissions, he will get pop-ups telling him to buy the full version.

alanwjones

You could also download the latest updates http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Signatures-Updates/Avira-Antivir-Virus-Definition-File-Update.shtml

Also follow these instructions if you wish.
http://www.elitekiller.com/files/disable_antivir_nag.htm

nickj_2

i've been using m/s essentials for the last 3 months - it's v good and doesn't keep asking you to upgrade like avira does everytime it updates itself

spud17

nickj wrote: »

i've been using m/s essentials for the last 3 months - it's v good and doesn't keep asking you to upgrade like avira does everytime it updates itself

About 6 mouse clicks using the link 2 posts up will get rid.

PhylPho

JasX wrote: »

make sure avira have fixed the issue with their update servers, an out of dat AV is a useless AV

No. They haven't. I've just been FIVE days with no Avira update, so all the definitions on my PCs are out-of-date and Avira's much-vaunted protection is, well. . . Useless.

This keeps happening with Avira. An isolated incident ('our servers cannot cope with the demand', says Avira) is one thing, but it's got to the point that a user can no longer have any certainty that Avira will function as promised.

After many update problems with Avira last year (me and perhaps 100,000 other users) I've packed it in. No more giant nag screens. No more failed updates.

Avast -- as so many people have told me in the past -- is excellent, fully featured, lots more information provided to the user than Avira ever did, and, so far, without an update glitch at all. No nag screens either.

I wouldn't recommend Avira to anyone now.

busenbust

Avast -- as so many people have told me in the past -- is excellent, fully featured, lots more information provided to the user than Avira ever did, and, so far, without an update glitch at all. No nag screens either.

Like many here, I'll keep on recommending Avast - and now, in its new and latest user interface incarnation (version 5), it simply cannot be topped :cool: .

...Uh oh

spud17

I can't understand why some have problems with the updates, 3 computers here updated today no problem.

fiddiwebb

PhylPho wrote: »

No. They haven't. I've just been FIVE days with no Avira update, so all the definitions on my PCs are out-of-date and Avira's much-vaunted protection is, well. . . Useless.

This keeps happening with Avira. An isolated incident ('our servers cannot cope with the demand', says Avira) is one thing, but it's got to the point that a user can no longer have any certainty that Avira will function as promised.

After many update problems with Avira last year (me and perhaps 100,000 other users) I've packed it in. No more giant nag screens. No more failed updates.

Avast -- as so many people have told me in the past -- is excellent, fully featured, lots more information provided to the user than Avira ever did, and, so far, without an update glitch at all. No nag screens either.

I wouldn't recommend Avira to anyone now.

Avira has been fine recently and certainly no problems with updates in the last five days.

Maybe you have a problem with your computer PhylPho, have you run a scan with Malwarebytes?

mr_fishbulb

PhylPho wrote: »

No. They haven't. I've just been FIVE days with no Avira update, so all the definitions on my PCs are out-of-date and Avira's much-vaunted protection is, well. . . Useless.

Panda doesn't need updates. It's signatures exist "in the cloud" so always has the latest ones.