Beware of false Avira AntiVir providers; download only from Avira’s home page

Avira AntiVir is known to be one of the best free antivirus application that offers features and protection of a full fledged antivirus program. Its popularity has grown substantially in recent years. Because of its popularity there are several false providers on the internet, which try to sell their free of charge AntiVir Personal Edition Classic with some additional "bonussoftware”.

Make sure that you are surf Avira sites at www.avira.com, www.avira.de, www.free-av.de or www.free-av.com in case you want to purchase their premium software or to download the free classic version.

You will get full details of those bribe homepages from Avira support forum.

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