Avira AntiVir Personal gives you the following functions:

• Control Center for monitoring, administering and controlling the entire program
• Central configuration with user-friendly standard and advanced options and context-sensitive help
• Scanner (On-Demand Scan) with profile-controlled and configurable search for all known types of virus and malware
• Integration into the Windows Vista User Account Control allows you to carry out tasks requiring administrator rights
• Guard (On-Access Scan) for continuous monitoring of all file access attempts
• Integrated quarantine management to isolate and process suspicious files
• Rootkit protection for detecting hidden malware installed in your computer system (rootkits) (Only for 32-bit systems)
• Direct access to detailed information on the detected viruses and malware via the Internet 
• Simple and quick updates to the program, virus definitions, and search engine through Single File Update and incremental VDF updates via a webserver on the Internet 
• Integrated Scheduler to plan one-off or recurring tasks, such as updates or test runs
• Very high rates of virus and malware detection using innovative search technologies (search engines) and heuristic search processes
• Detection of all common archive types, including detection of nested archives and smart extensions
• High-performance multithreading function (simultaneous high-speed scanning of multiple files)

• Protection against viruses, worms and Trojans
• Protection against expensive dialers
• Detects and deletes rootkits
• Raised scan speed
• Redesigned visual appearance

• At least 100 MB of free hard disk memory space (more if using Quarantine for temporary storage)
• At least 192 MB RAM under Windows 2000/XP
• At least 512 MB RAM under Windows Vista
• For installation: Administrator rights
• For all installations: Windows Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher.

• Quarantine manager: the number of columns has been reduced
• Quarantine manager: send files using HTTP
• System tray tool: display the status of modules on mouse-over
• Last system scan: individual configuration of the alert message
• Renaming "Win32 Heuristic" to "AHeAD" in the configuration panel
• Support for netbooks (screen resolution)
• Configuration panel: new button "Default Values". This button allows you to restore the configuration to the predefined default values
• New installation folder and registry keys for all products: "C:Program FilesAviraAntiVir Desktop" and "HKLMSoftwareAviraAntiVir Desktop".Now there are no differences between the products AntiVir Personal, AntiVir Premium and Premium Security Suite any longer
• Configuration wizard after setup
• Process protection for GUI processes
• File and folder protection for AntiVir files and folders
• Registry protection for AntiVir keys
• Scanning of locked files
• Scanner: combined display of malware detections and one-click removal.

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