It's a licensing issue. Avira is only free for personal use. (So is AVG for that matter...)
I evaluated Avira amongst several when I got tasked with removing a Trojan infection at work and it did a much much better job of removing the infection than any of the other products I evaluated, including AVG. Unfortunately management incoherence meant that there was no budget for licenses (I know, I know... don't look at me...) so I could not leave it on as a permanent solution, and for whatever reason nobody ever dealt with the illegal downloading that caused the infection in the first place, so they were soon reinfected. (I asked to not be responsible for this if I wasn't going to be allowed to fix it, and as far as I know they are still infected today. I don't work there any more.) Bottom line -- I use Avira on my personal laptop and I recommend it. It is nowhere near as bloated as the big commercial products, and more effective. You can fix the problem you describe by getting a business license (or inquiring whether they have reduced rates for non-profits). Alternatively, there may be a setting. I occasionally see something about whether I would like to upgrade, but definitely not every time I reboot. Hope that helps Dana On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Scott Raley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just got a new non profit customer and saw they are using an antivirus > called Avira that's supposed to be free and while working on their pc, each > time it rebooted it asked if I wanted to upgrade the package and buy > something. Anyone else used this and can I turn the damn pop up off before I > go back and put AVG on this thing? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:297472 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
