Comments on: Avira AntiVir Updates to Version 9 – Make It More Usable

By: av user

av user — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:28:10 +0000

[spelling corrected of my last post :
Actually, my biggest problem with Avira are not the ads or visible updating per se. Rather, I'm not always connected to the web (and don't want to be), but after about a day or so offline, Avira won't let me continue using my computer, — flashing constant harassment notices to 'update'. Any way to turn off these notices and all updating OFF when one is offline?? Thanks...

By: av user

av user — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:25:50 +0000

Actually, my biggest rpoblem with Avira are not the ads or visible updating per seen. Rather, I’m not always connected to the web (and don’t want to be), but after about a day or so offline, Avira won’t let me continue using my computer, — flashing constant harassment notices to ‘update’. Anyway to turn off these notices and all updating OFF when one is offline?? Thanks…

By: Kewltodamax

Kewltodamax — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:51:07 +0000

I have another problem with antivir…it keeps deleting newfile.vbs which i believe r files which are needed for autorun aren’t they? Or are all my newfile.vbs is infected? On top of that, avira antivir deleted my system32 newfile.vbs… though it has not left a big issue over my lappy other then a few minor irritations like clicking explore button for external drives which are supposedly not accessible… is there anyway to fix this?

By: Lukes House

Lukes House — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:44:17 +0000

After my Trend Micro paid version ran out and I did not want to pay the 75$ to get only 1 more yr…

I loaded Trial Avira from download.com off Cnet & all was fine, though I was never too Impressed with it….
Yesterday, I started getting Pop ups from News pages time after time. Said possibly malware attached to computer. I then loaded Adware off Cnet. Then had several Windows Crashes. I did uninstall and then system restore on dell inspiron 1525.
After Many hours I just decided that if Avira had allowed somethiong to get in I was not cont to use the trial program since I already used the AVG trial up….
I went to uninstall Avira AntiVir, and and load another one.

Well AVIRA said now it is missing a desktop file or something and would NOT uninstall. I have tried to do system resores now they fail too.
No clue if Adware program quarantines the Avira files? So then when I uninstalled the Adware program maybe the Avira files bailed too? Hence the missing uninstall files?
Why cannot I delete each file one by one to finally RID my computer from it’s leftovers blocking a new install? Even tried reinstalling avira, no avail says desktop files still missing.
Every time I try and load a new replacement Virus program it will not finalize and says, uninstall Avira 1st.
I have tried to delete files from program files/avira since the uninstall feature will not work in control panel…uninstall software area. Of course you CANNOT call tech support and NOW I have a useless program stuck on computer that will NOT allow me to LOAD another Virus program to replace it. Says possible conflicts if you do not 1st UNINSTALL AVIRA and the stupid program will NOT let me manually delete each file!
Ge, the programs are worse than the Viruses that they are supposed to protect you from.

Thanks in advance to any Geeks out there that can give me a Clue!
Really to not want to totally format my whole computer to rid it of the Avira that was to protect it, not trap it.

By: Jyrki

Jyrki — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:18:34 +0000

About FileSecPatch:

It can no longer be downloaded from zzyzx’s link, but I managed to find it from some directory and it works fine.

I decided to upload it here:

http://users.metropolia.fi/~jyrkive/tiedostoja/

Have fun with it.

By: hasenfrasen

hasenfrasen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:06:40 +0000

Also add a “/ns” to skip the startup splash screen.

Regedit HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
“C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avgnt.exe” /min /ns

By: Stevie b.

Stevie b. — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:06:27 +0000

Re Vista and “open a cold one”. Sorry that i’m clearly a thicko, but can someone please tell me what this means? Did as instructed apart from the last bit and next day the ad still popped up.

By: TechMachi » Free Antivirus Software

TechMachi » Free Antivirus Software — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:11:49 +0000

[...] server problems. Third, AntiVir has advertisements that appear with every update, altough you can disable these ads. Also, you can disable AntiVir’s splash screen if you wish, as some people find it [...]

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:38:16 +0000

After the installer extracts the installation files, before clicking Next, run the following command in START->RUN:

CMD.EXE /C DEL /F /Q %temp%\RarSFX0\basic\avnotify.*

Then proceed as normal with the installation and ignore the errors. DONE

By: bigfrank

bigfrank — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:35:44 +0000

Some thoughts:

1. Users that have a FAT file system do not have the option of a Security tab no matter which version of XP used. It can only be done with NTFS. Booting into Safe Mode with a FAT32 file system is no help.

2. My XP Media Center laptop (with NTFS) has secpol.msc capability just like XP Pro.

3. On my XP Home desktop with FAT32 the easiest way to stop avnotify.exe is with my Firewall, Comodo. Works perfectly, and transparent.

Regards.