Avira
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Native name
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H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH |
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| Kommanditgesellschaft | |
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | Germany (1986) |
| Founder | Tjark Auerbach |
| Headquarters | Tettnang, Germany |
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Key people
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Travis Witteveen – CEO |
| Products | Security softwares |
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Number of employees
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500+ |
| Website | www |
Avira Internet Security 2013 in Windows 7
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| Initial release | 1988 |
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| Stable release | 15.0.24.146 (December 15, 2016) |
| Operating system | Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, and XP |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Antivirus |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 47°39′42.613″N 9°35′31.371″E / 47.66183694°N 9.59204750°E
Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG is a German multinational security software company that provides antivirus software, Internet Security, Privacy, Identity and Performance tools for computers, smartphones, servers and networks, delivered as both software and cloud-based services.
Avira's headquarters are located near Lake Constance, in Tettnang, Germany. The company has additional European offices in Arnhem, the Netherlands and Bucharest, Romania. Avira also has sales and marketing offices in Beijing, China and in Burlingame, California, USA Silicon Valley.
With an estimated 9.6% of global market share according to OPSWAT, and over 100 million customers, Avira was considered the sixth-largest antivirus vendor in 2012.
The company supports the Auerbach Stiftung, a foundation created by the company's founder, Tjark Auerbach. It promotes charitable and social projects, the arts, culture and science.
Avira periodically "cleans out" its virus definition files, replacing specific signatures with generic ones for a general increase in performance and scanning speed. A 15 MB database clean-out was made on 27 October 2008, causing problems to the users of the Free edition because of its large size and Avira's slow Free edition servers. Avira responded by reducing the size of the individual update files, delivering less data in each update. Nowadays there are 32 smaller definition files that are updated regularly in order to avoid peaks in the download of the updates.
Avira products contain heuristics that can proactively uncover unknown malware, i.e. before a special virus signature to combat the damaging element has been created and before a virus guard update has been sent.
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