There’s a promotion from AVIRA:
6 months premium edition licence for free(See here).
I uninstalled our dear AVAST, i registered for a licence of AVIRA, i received my licence for free, i installed the new version (v8). Well, i have been surfing, testing it, and after 10 minutes… i missed AVAST.
AVIRA uninstall and AVAST install.
At least you did not try to use both at the same time
This promotion seems to be a trial period of 6 months. You’ll have two with avast… I think it’s more than necessary to evaluate
I have different anti-virus app on each of our computers including Avast! and Avira. Considering this would be also good in finding false positives and/or new threat, I don’t think I need to feel sorry to each company especially when this outcome most likely proves their competitiveness. ;D
Since v.4.8, Avast Home edition has nothing less than AVIRA Premium, it has antirootkit engine and antispyware and is fully loaded. Only subjective opinion is about malware detection being more or less with AVAST than AVIRA. But this is subjective and vary from time to time. :-[
Also, Avira Classic edition doesn’t have protection against email. So, the users need some other means to cover these parts. Whether variety of pattern files can be a trade-off or not depends on their decisions. We can exchange information on these boards but, of course, the choices are made by each user.
Precisely speaking, AntiVir doesn’t have such functions as Avast’s local proxy filter/Outlook plug-in for email but, of course, it’s resident scan works when you try to open mail. The same can be said about browsing. AntiVir’s response is quick and most likely AntiVir catches virus before too late but, of course, the chance is only once different form Avast’s case.