Antivirus question

This is a discussion about Antivirus question in the Windows Software category; I wanted some opinion on antivirus software. I have used a number of different products over the years, ranging from Norton and McAfee to Avast, AVG, Antivir and F-Prot. I have recently begun using Avira, which offers a free trial version for download.

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I wanted some opinion on antivirus software. I have used a number of different products over the years, ranging from Norton and McAfee to Avast, AVG, Antivir and F-Prot.
 
I have recently begun using Avira, which offers a free trial version for download.
http://www.avira.com/en/download/downloadproductform.html/id_prd/5/index/0
 
Anyway, I turned up all the scan options, and have been finding things that never came up before, on my system and other peoples systems. I have used products like spybot, ad aware se, and e-wido, aluria, etc, and all have done well, but the antispyware feature built into avira has done the best out of all of them.
 
Incidentially, I understand they have a division dedicated to the USA coming soon, www.avirausa.com
 
I believe they have a free version for Unix based machines as well.
 
 

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If nothing else ever flagged these things then they could be false positives and if this is the case then Avira is not as good as you thought.