Avira Antivirus Pro

Avira Antivirus Pro is a powerful antivirus that boasts the latest security technology and is Avira’s best antivirus solution. It incorporates all the features of the free solution Avira Free Antivirus and boasts additional layers of protection for even greater online security. Thanks to this, this premium antivirus solution not only helps you block malware such as viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, and other online threats but also offers advanced ransomware protection, web protection, email protection, and the Avira Firewall.

Avira Antivirus Pro’s real-time protection continuously monitors your system and scans files that are being used, copied, or accessed. It runs automatically in the background without you noticing. Because the fingerprint of every suspicious file in the Avira Protection Cloud is compared with our huge database, it won’t sap your system resources and won’t slow you down.

You can also start system scans manually, which run in the foreground, to check your hard drive. To best protect your system, we recommend scanning your device regularly. Avira Antivirus Pro provides you with several options for this: You can run a full scan that scans your entire system for malware; a quick scan that checks some of the most commonly attacked areas of your device; an alternative predefined scan that searches specific areas of your system; or create a custom scan. You can also create schedules for your scans, specifying the frequency, day, and time. The quick system scan is turned on by default and runs automatically in the background every seven days. In addition, you can use the Smart Scan feature to check your system not only for malware but also for outdated software, network threats, privacy vulnerabilities, and performance issues.

Avira Antivirus Pro also includes Avira Phantom VPN for secure and anonymous surfing, Avira Password Manager to create strong passwords, Avira Software Updater for Windows that makes it a breeze to update your programs, apps, and drivers as well as Avira System Speedup for Windows to give your device a performance tune up.

What are the plus points of Avira Antivirus Pro?

Avira Antivirus Pro and Avira Free Antivirusutilize the same high-performance scan engine and the same AI-powered cloud-based detection system for real-time malware protection. However, users of the premium antivirus program benefit from other key protective features:

• Advanced ransomware protection

Both the free as well as the premium edition offer ransomware protection. The anti-ransomware feature included in the free antivirus solution is based on virus signature analysis, while Avira Antivirus Pro’s advanced ransomware protection also performs a behavioral (or heuristic in tech terms) analysis. It is designed to also detect new ransomware strains and mutations.

Signature-based analysis is used to detect known online threats. In this case, a potential cyberthreat is checked against our extensive ransomware database and blocked if there’s a match. The behavioral or heuristic analysis also checks which actions are triggered by the individual parts of the code. When it comes to actions typically initiated by ransomware, such as the turning off of protection controls or encryption of data stored on the device, these are blocked.

• Avira Firewall (Windows feature)

Since your Windows computer’s pre-installed firewall only offers protection against certain types of vulnerability, we have integrated the Avira Firewall into Avira Antivirus Pro. It’s an extra layer of security that complements your built-in Windows firewall, making your device more secure.¹ It’s designed to monitor programs and block potentially risky applications before they can cause any harm. This includes suspicious and unauthorized applications trying to share your personal information. The Avira Firewall helps you protect your computer from intruders and attacks on your system, and notifies you when an attack has been repelled.

• Mail Protection (Windows feature)

Emails can contain phishing links and malware hidden in attachments — the two most common email threats. In addition, the security and integrity of emails can be endangered during unencrypted transmission from the client to the server, since the data contained in them can be intercepted, copied, or even altered. The powerful Mail Protection feature for POP, IMAP, and SMTP email protocols is designed to detect viruses and potentially malicious links. In just a few seconds, it checks incoming emails for phishing links and malicious attachments and can also be turned on for outgoing emails.

• Web Protection (Windows feature)

Cybercriminals can infect websites with malicious code to steal your passwords, personal information, or credit card details. They can even create phishing websites to steal your sensitive information. Since our Web Protection feature scans the websites you want to visit for potentially harmful content — or checks if they’re classified as phishing or spam — and blocks them before you actually land on them, you can surf the internet, shop, and bank more safely. Web Protection also checks your downloads for potentially unwanted applications (PUAs), scans your data stored in the cloud (e.g. on Dropbox or Google Drive), and helps prevent drive-by downloads.

Mac users can protect themselves against malicious websites, PUAs, and tracking, plus block ads with Avira Browser Safety, the free browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.

• Avira Customer Support

Our staff will be happy to help you with any questions and concerns. Simply visit our customer service portal or get in touch.

Which Avira solutions offer premium protection?

Our Avira Prime and Avira Internet Security subscriptions include all the features of Avira Antivirus Pro. Although our all-in-one solution Avira Prime includes practically every feature we offer, Avira Internet Security includes our premium antivirus solution as well as Avira Software Updater Pro and Avira Password Manager Pro. You can also get our premium protection solution for Android devices, which is available for purchase via our free app Avira Antivirus Security for Android. The premium app offers web protection as well as camera and microphone protection in addition to the free features. Avira Mobile Security for iOS is also available as a premium version via an in-app purchase using the free app. In addition to web protection, it offers a notification function that informs you if your email address has been exposed in a data protection breach.

How do I install Avira Antivirus Pro?

Step 1: Buy online from our website

Select the number of devices you want to protect and the desired subscription term here, then click Buy now. Now enter all the required information and complete the transaction. Following that, click Install now and you’ll be forwarded to your Avira account. To log in, use the email address you provided when making the purchase and create a password or log in with your Facebook or Google account or Apple ID. In your user account you can manage your Avira subscriptions and devices, set up Avira services, download free products and services, visit the Avira Store, and much more. You can also access your Avira account at any time via the top bar of the user interface of your Avira application.

Step 2: Download and install from your My Avira Account

Download Avira Antivirus Pro in the Subscriptions section by clicking Install. Once the file has downloaded, double-click it and start the installation process by clicking Accept and Install. Once installed, you can start your first Smart Scan straight away to check your device for issues and fix them if necessary. These include data leaks, performance issues, viruses, outdated programs, and network threats. You can run the Smart Scan again at any time via the Status section.

Step 3: Using the solution

In the Security section, under Virus scans, you can run a full or quick scan or manage your scans (in other words, create, run, and schedule scans). Under Protection options you can turn real-time protection, web protection, email protection, and ransomware protection on or off. In addition, you can check quarantined, i.e. potentially malicious files, and delete or repair them. Furthermore, Windows users can search for outdated programs under Software updater and update them. Under Firewall, Windows users can turn on the Avira Firewall and allow or block the internet connection for specific applications and manage protection against cyberintruders who attack through external devices.

In the Privacy and Performance sections you’ll find many other useful features and services such as the password manager, the VPN, and the tune-up tools.