Avira's "partnerships" not universally well-received.

Avira’s partnership with Uniblue’s questionable “Registry Booster” and “Ask” toolbar has rendered some users speechless - while others are “speaking” quite a lot. ::slight_smile:
http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=131604

Count your blessings ladies and gentlemen!

Glad im with avast ;D

Amen :wink: and long live Avast for our true holy grail no one can beat Avast ;D

Wow… What a bad movement!
Thanks we’re not on Ask companion neither Registry Booster…

Good for avast!.. ;D

Seems they make a deal with the devil…

I sincerely hope that the principals of Avast never lose sight of the fact that trust in their type of software (meaning AV & AS) is the most important thing of all. Any anti-virus, anti-spyware or anti-malware company crawling in bed with scare-ware, ad-ware and any other sleazy marketing firm gimmick will, IMO, lose far more than they’ll make in any incremental income.

Shame on Avira. I hope they suffer what they deserve from these business arrangements. I will do what ever I can to make sure anyone and everyone I run into knows how they can no longer be trusted!

There is absolutely no reason to believe that avast! would ever “partner” in the way Avira seems to have done. But if you’ve not done so already, may I suggest that the best strategy for making sure that no-one at avast! ever gets as far as even thinking about suggesting such a partnership, is for each of us who appreciate that all we have to put up with in avast! Free is the Google Chrome option, an “Upgrade” button and an ad for AIS in the GUI, to take whatever discount we can get (still 55% at Wilders AFAIK) and become an avast! “partner” yourself. :wink:

I can’t believe I just wrote that. Do I sound like a fanboy? :-[

Much more info…
Wilders Forum
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=301198
BBR Forum
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25973411-Avira-Partners-with-Scareware-and-Sleazeware-Vendors

lol, bye bye Avira … after AVG another one met the corporate fat fate …

Well it leaves us with Avast and MSE as the only choice for decent free antivirus software.

I think you’re meant to say that no one can beat Avast, right?

Fixed ::slight_smile: :stuck_out_tongue:

take a look at this topic: https://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=131963

Hmmm… No doubt that Avira free became an adware…

Yep.

http://www.calendarofupdates.com/updates/index.php?app=calendar&module=calendar&cal_id=1&do=showevent&event_id=95954

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Avira-Criticized-for-Recommending-Controversial-Product-205954.shtml

We have changed the licensing type on our Avira AntiVir Personal listing from "Freeware" to "Ad-supported" as a result of this incident. Avira gave us assurances in the past that it won't display third-party ads through the product citing company ethos.

Since those policies have clearly changed and we want our users to be well informed about what they install, we have updated our listing accordingly. A similar change will be enforced for paid versions of Avira AntiVir if the product’s Service Pack 2 (SP2) ships with the rebranded Ask toolbar included.

A member of the german Avira-forum created a topic in this forum about Avira’s partnership with Ask.
This topic had nearly 1300 views in a few days.

And what was the reaction of Avira? They DELETE this topic!

Lol… ::slight_smile:

Run away… I hate this! They should be mature enough to discuss previously and to recognize the s*it they have done.

+1 :-*

Service Pack for Antivir confuses users
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Service-Pack-for-Antivir-confuses-users-1271030.html

I can’t believe… Avira is doing s*it one after another…

The problem occurs when users decline to install the browser toolbar of search engine operator Ask.com