Avira - History

History

Avira antivirus programs, which were first launched in 1988, are based on a scan engine named "Luke Filewalker", referring to Luke Skywalker.

On 17 October 2008, a major update to the scan engine was released, which increased scanning speed by 20%.

Avira competes in the antivirus industry against BullGuard, F-Secure, Frisk, Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro among others.

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