I guess there are quite a lot of people who stopped using Avira Antivirus because of vpn, software updater, system speedup etc that are dropped during installation without any approval from users.
They used to provide an installer just for users who want their Antivirus only but that seems to be gone from their official website.
However I just found out that Avira still DOES offer an (offline) installer for Avira Antivirus only.
(Note: The installation itself can be done offline but the registration process after the installation requires internet connection)
This worked well for me for a while, but today I got a big nag screen with “Please Update Avira. Your current version is no longer supported. Blah blah blah, upgrade now or in 30 days.”
The idiot I was, I told it to update, and it installed a bunch of new garbage like “something-something optimizer”, VPN, “game something-something,” etc.
I uninstalled and downloaded again from the good link, however it still downloads the same version I installed a few months ago, so it runs for a little while, and then the nag screen is back.
Any ideas how to proceed without updating, or somehow updating to AV only on the new version? Alternatively, how to get rid of the nag screen in case the current AV is still safe to use going forward, or any recommendations on alternative AV software that installs only antivirus functions?
Avira has issues.
It’ll start a quick scan whenever the realtime protection detects a threat.
So if there are many viruses and you are running some heavy programs it will make the pc slow