I’m sure you’ve know Avira, one of my recommended free antivirus. Avira is improving and improving by day. Now, to answer consumers need on faster update, Avira changed the update scheme in order to improve update speed and size.
As we know, Avira update need at least 30 MB filesize. This update always release every Thursday. That’s, for some customers, especially in low connection or high load, slowing the system. But starting from November, 17 this year, Avira 9 implementing new update concept which make update process faster and without disruption, even during peak times.
Why Avira User need constant updates?. That’s because new malware created each day, new virus created found newest technology to infect their victims. A Week for update maybe too late, especially for computer connected to internet, because every second they connected, opening a possibility to be infected by new smarter virus.
Avira has responded to the feedback from its users with a much-improved update process: Instead of the current four files, in future the virus database will consist of 32 files. This will reduce the size of the individual updatable files, so that in future less data will be delivered in each update. Avira also uses a Content Delivery Network (CDN), which uses numerous servers distributed throughout the Internet to deliver the data more quickly.





























