Product Lifecycle – we give you security
Part of our Avira product philosophy is the long-term further development and maintenance of our products. We do this to give you the investment and planning security you need for your business. We therefore often support discontinued platforms for longer than the vendors of these operating systems do themselves – generally by an additional 12 months.
And even if we discontinue support for a certain platform, this does not mean that you cannot continue to use your Avira product. It only means that we are not continuing with the further development and maintenance of the actual program for this platform. However, updates of the search engine and virus definition will still be available for this program provided that the technical further development of our products does not prevent this.
Discontinued Avira products
The following Avira products will no longer be maintained after the date specified.
| Avira product |
Date |
Replacement product |
| AntiVir Exchange Server 5.5 |
15 February 2005 |
Avira AntiVir Exchange 2000/2003 |
| AntiVir Exchange Workstation |
15 February 2005 |
- |
| AntiVir Eudora |
15 February 2005 |
- |
| AntiVir Workstation Windows 95 |
15 February 2005 |
Avira AntiVir Workstation Windows |
| AVE32 command line scanner |
06 December 2005 |
AVCMD |
| AntiVir DOS GUI |
31 January 2006 |
- |
| AntiVir OS/2 |
31 January 2006 |
- |
| AntiVir Novell NetWare |
30 June 2006 |
- |
| AntiVir KEN! 2 |
31 August 2006 |
Avira AntiVir for KEN! 4 |
| AntiVir Domino 8.5 |
15 July 2006 |
- |
| AntiVir Milter for Sendmail UNIX |
05 September 2006 |
Avira AntiVir UNIX MailGate |
| Avira AntiVir MonoVDF |
30 Juni 2007 |
Avira AntiVir iVDF |
| Avira AntiVir Engine, version 6 |
31 August 2007 |
Avira AntiVir Engine, version 7 |
| Avira AntiVir Exchange, version 5.x |
31 October 2007 |
Avira AntiVir Exchange 2000/2003 |
| Avira CIA Commander |
29 November 2007 |
- |
| Avira DriveNet |
29 November 2007 |
- |
| Avira NTFS4DOS |
29 November 2007 |
- |
| Avira UnErase |
29 November 2007 |
- |
| Avira WinRollBack |
29 November 2007 |
- |
| Avira AntiVir Domino, version 9.x |
31 December 2007 |
- |
| Avira AntiVir for KEN! 3 |
31 July 2008 |
Avira AntiVir for KEN! 4 |
| Avira AntiVir Server Windows, version 6 |
30 November 2008 |
Avira AntiVir Server Windows, version 8.1 |
| Avira AntiVir Server Windows, version 7 |
30 November 2008 |
Avira AntiVir Server Windows, version 8.1 |
| Avira AntiVir Server Windows, version 8.0 |
30 November 2008 |
Avira AntiVir Server Windows, version 8.1 |
| Avira AntiVir ISA Server (for Microsoft ISA Server 2000) |
31 December 2008 |
Avira AntiVir ISA Server (for Microsoft ISA Server 2004 or 2006) |
| Avira AntiVir SAVAPI 1 |
30 September 2009 |
Avira AntiVir SAVAPI 3 |
| Avira AntiVir SAVAPI 2 |
30 September 2009 |
Avira AntiVir SAVAPI 3 |
| Avira WebProtector |
31 March 2010 |
- |
Discontinued support of Microsoft operating systems
In the following, the planned support periods of Microsoft for certain products or operating systems are listed. The Avira support periods for the relevant product or operating system are given on the right. Please note that we reserve the right to extend the specified support period without prior notice in individual cases.
| Operating Systems |
End of the extended support through Microsoft |
End of the Avira support |
| Windows 98 |
11 July 2006 |
30 June 2007 |
| Windows 98 SE |
11 July 2006 |
30 June 2007 |
| Windows ME |
11 July 2006 |
30 June 2007 |
| Windows NT |
not specified |
31 March 2007 |
| Pocket PC 2002 |
14 October 2008 |
14. October 2009 |
| Windows 2000 (Server, Professional) |
13 July 2010 |
13 July 2011 |
| Windows XP Home Edition |
8 April 2014 |
8 April 2015 |
| Windows XP Professional |
8 April 2014 |
8 April 2015 |
| Windows Server 2003 |
14 July 2015 |
14 July 2016 |
Discontinued support of UNIX operating systems
Please note that we reserve the right to extend the specified support period without prior notice in individual cases.
| Operating Systems |
End of the Avira support |
| Linux/i386 libc5 |
31 August 2007 |
| OpenBSD/i386 3.0-3.3 |
31 August 2007 |
| Glibc 2.0 (only for Avira AntiVir MailGate/MailGate Suite and Avira AntiVir WebGate/WebGate Suite) |
30 April 2009 |
| Glibc 2.3 PPC (only for Avira AntiVir MailGate/MailGate Suite and Avira AntiVir WebGate/WebGate Suite) |
30 April 2009 |
| Solaris SPARC 7 and 8 |
30 April 2009 |
| Solaris all versions for x86 |
30 April 2009 |
| OpenBSD |
30 April 2009 |
| FreeBSD |
30 April 2009 |
Do you have any questions concerning the above-mentioned products or of a future product you are interested in? We are glad to attend you on the phone at +49 (0) 75 42 - 500 0 or via email at .
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