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    Avira Personal and CCAA

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by usapatriot, Jun 28, 2009.

  1. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Does anyone know if Avira Anti-virus Personal Free Edition is supported by the Cisco Clean Access agent?

    I would really hate to put my university's sponsored McAfee AV (virus) on my system.
     
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    You can show them the power Avira Antivir Personal 9!! XD!
    I got a question, is your university provides McAfee Enterprise thingy?
    If is McAfee Enterprise thingy, I would said Avira would do the better job.
    In term of resources usage, Avira uses less resources compared to McAfee.
     
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    It depends on the school. A school chooses which anti-virus programs to support.
     
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    OK, so I found the list on my schools website, they support a few Avira products but not the "Free" edition. :(
     
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    So, it this mean you must McAfee?
    But so far, I know a lot of school have been using McAfee. I hope it is alright.
     
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    Well, I will have to buy McAfee for $5, yup, definitely not detecting Avira, it only detects Windows Defender in the list of required security apps.
     
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    As mentioned though, you could show your tech department Avira free and they can clear you. At my college, I was able to gain an exemption from CCAA entirely because I showed my computer to the tech department. They were rather impressed with the amount of protection on it.
     
    jin07, Jun 28, 2009
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