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The acquisition was closed in January 2021. On December 7, 2020, NortonLifeLock announced acquisition of Avira for approximately US$360 million from Investcorp Technology Partners. However, 20% of its total ordinary and preferred shares are owned by the Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Group since 2017. The directors of Investcorp Group belong to several royal families of Middle East countries like Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, etc. The Investcorp Group has invested in several other firms from the cybersecurity sector in the past. The stakes were reportedly sold at a price of 180 million dollars. Tjark Auerbach, the founder of Avira sold almost 100% of his stake in the company to the Investcorp Group of Manama ( Bahrain) in April 2020. On 4 September 2014, Avira announced a partnership with Dropbox, to combine Avira's security with Dropbox's 'sync and share' capabilities. Strategic and technology partners of Avira include Canonical, CYAN Networks, IBM, intelligence AG, Microsoft, novell, OPSWAT, Synergy Systems and others.

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Operating system Windows 7, 8/8.1, 10, 11 processor speed 1.6 GHz requires 256 MB of RAM hard disk memory 2 GB.Īvira offers its antivirus engine in the form of a software development kit to implement in complementary products.

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This technology was implemented in all paid 2013 products.ĪPC was initially only used during a manual quick system scan later it was extended to real-time protection. It uses information available via the Internet (cloud computing) to improve detection and affect system performance less. Protection Cloud Īvira Protection Cloud (APC) was first introduced in version 2013.

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If the code being scanned exhibits these characteristic features it is reported as being suspicious, although not necessarily malware the user decides whether to act on or ignore the warning. Heuristic virus detection involves extensive analysis and investigation of the affected codes for functions typical of malware.

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Advance heuristic Īvira products contain heuristics that proactively uncover unknown malware, before a special virus signature to combat the damaging element has been created and before a virus guard update has been sent. Its file-by-file scanning feature has jokingly been titled 'Luke Filewalker' by the developers, as a reference to the Star Wars media franchise character ' Luke Skywalker'.

Nowadays there are 32 smaller definition files that are updated regularly in order to avoid peaks in the download of the updates.

Avira responded by reducing the size of the individual update files, delivering less data in each update. A 15 MB database clean-out was made on 27 October 2008, causing problems to the users of the Free edition because of its large size and Avira's slow Free edition servers. Technology Virus definition Īvira periodically 'cleans out' its virus definition files, replacing specific signatures with generic ones for a general increase in performance and scanning speed. The company also has offices in the United States, China, Romania, and Japan. It was previously owned by investment firm Investcorp. Since 2021, Avira has been owned by American software company NortonLifeLock (now Gen Digital), which also operates Norton, Avast and AVG. Although founded in 2006, the Avira antivirus application has been under active development since 1986 through its predecessor company H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH. KG is a German multinational computer security software company mainly known for its Avira Free Security antivirus software.

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