{"id":363,"date":"2009-12-30T15:38:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2010-01-04T21:21:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:21:39","slug":"is-avira-antivirus-having-problems-updating-on-your-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/is-avira-antivirus-having-problems-updating-on-your-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Avira Antivirus having problems updating on your system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re having issue with Avira Antivirus updating on your system, you have a couple of options:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1.  You can update the virus definitions for Avira manually by following the instructions on this page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avira.com\/en\/support\/kbdetails.php?id=95\">http:\/\/www.avira.com\/en\/support\/kbdetails.php?id=95<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, this is a temporary workaround, as you don&#8217;t want to have to keep on doing this.  You&#8217;ll need to go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.avira.com\/wbb\/index.php?langid=1\">Avira forums<\/a> to find out your specific problem.<\/p>\n<p>2.  You can uninstall Avira (make sure you do that FIRST), and then install another very good free antivirus program.  Here are the others I would suggest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/Avast-Home-Edition-Free-Antivirus\/3000-2239_4-10019223.html?tag=mncol\" target=\"new\">Avast Home Edition FREE Antivirus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition\/3000-2239_4-10320142.html?tag=mncol\" target=\"new\">AVG Antivirus Free Edition<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re having issue with Avira Antivirus updating on your system, you have a couple of options:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-tips-and-tricks","category-viruses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}