Avira AntiVir wins the readers’ choice of the renowned Internet portal Chip Online

Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic is the best free security solution of the year 2006

Tettnang 16 March 2006 – The popular German Internet portal CHIP Online has published the best freeware products of the year 2006 in ten categories. The winners of the wide Chip download readers’ choice are nominated: Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic is the winner in the category of security.

CHIP Online organized a readers’ choice on the occasion of its 10 year anniversary. The subject matter was to find out which of the ten available download programs, essential for all computers, is the best. Under the motto of ”No computer should have the chance to enter the net without an installed security software”, CHIP Online provided the readers with different security solutions, among them also the Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic, which won at a canter in this category.

Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic is a both complex and flexible tool that reliably protects the computers of home users against viruses, malware, undesired programs and other threats. In the beginning of the year, Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic celebrated its ten millionth download at chip.de, which so far was never reached by any software. The virus protection solution clearly gained the top with the current readers’ choice. A total of 58 percent of all readers choose Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition as the best free security solution.

“This award shows that our dedication in providing a free professional virus protection product for home users has lead to success and it furthermore has provided us with the opportunity to make a contribution for more security when using computers“, explained Gernot Hacker, COO of Avira.


About Avira

Avira (formerly H+BEDV) is one of the pioneers in the IT security area. The security specialist has been developing as from 1988 cross-system security solutions for business and private customers under the brand name AntiVir. Some of these customers are leading national and international companies, various educational institutions as well as public entities.

The product portfolio comprises high-performance security solutions for workstations, file servers, web servers and mail servers as well as for PDAs and smartphones.
The company doesn’t only have a wide range of products in the Windows environment; it is also one of the technology leaders in the UNIX market. Moreover, the company introduced the first SAP certified security solution for SAP NetWeaver in 2005 on the market.

The Avira AntiVir scanner is awarded the VB 100% on a regular basis and is proud to have a current TÜV Certificate (Technical Inspection Authority). The high competence of the company in the IT security area is also documented through the close collaboration with the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

The Avira security solutions can be obtained from the numerous Avira resellers, who represent and distribute the products all over Europe and abroad.


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