Avira AntiVir Premium enhances the comprehensive protection of the Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus with important security and configuration functions and protects you against viruses, worms, Trojans, ad/spyware, dialers, bots and dangerous ''drive-by'' downloads.

Premium functions:
- Low system resources used;
- Control Center for monitoring, administering and controlling the entire program;
- Central configuration with user-friendly standard and advanced options and ontext-sensitive help;
- Scanner (On-Demand Scan) with profile-controlled and configurable search for all known types of virus and malware;
- Guard (On-Access Scan) for continuous monitoring of all file access attempts;
- MailGuard (POP3- and SMTP-Scanner) for the permanent checking of emails for viruses and malware. Checking of email attachments is included;
- Exclusive download server for faster updates;
- User-defined update intervals;
- Phishing and Rootkit Protection.
- An enhanced interface graphical interface,
- A modularized AV-search engine for improved scan performance,
- An integrated failsafe security system, and SMTP support for AntiVir MailGuard,
- New modules: WebGuard and Rescue System.


NEW: Fast Activation Tool (FACT). FACT enables the licensing of product on-line during installation.

Limitations: The Installation Kit comes fully featured but the update service (FUSE) is disabled. To enable the update service (FUSE) you may purchase the appropriate commercial license from our website (online shop). Giving something back - five euros of every online sale goes to the Auerbach foundation that supports various social, scientific, cultural and charitable projects.