Quick tip. Avira Antivir Personal is one of the best popular free antivirus. As this post is written, Avira Antivir Personal ranked #2 on Download.com most popular download. I’m pretty sure most of Avira Antivir users found that the ‘beeping’ audio alert when a virus is detected is quite annoying, especially when you can’t turn down the volume because it uses your motherboard’s buzzer. You can actually turn off the audio alert easily.

How to Turn Off Avira Antivir Audio ‘Beep’ Alert

1. Open Avira Antivir main window. Go to ‘Extras’ > ‘Configuration’ (1).

2. Click ‘Expert Mode’ (2) and go to ‘General’ > ‘Acoustic Alert’ (3). Select ‘No warning’ (4) to disable Avira Antivir audio alert. Click ‘OK’ (5) to store the configuration.

Avira Antivir Personal is free for personal use.

Virus Bulletin has released the test results of 34 anti-malware products. The test covers a range of metrics, including detection rates over various types of malware including adware and spyware, false positive rates, scanning speed, proactive detection, and response times to outbreaks.

The test are performed against 1,164,662 samples of malware and 94,291 samples samples of ad/spyware. The summary of the test:

- Best detection rate of malware and ad/spyware: GDATA’s AVK 2009 (99.80% for malware, 99.80% for ad/spyware)

Sometimes some of us will be in a situation where we rarely can access the Internet. In this post, I will gather the way on how to keep antivirus on a system without Internet connection up to date with the latest virus signature.

1. Kaspersky Antivirus/Internet Security