I was using Avira Free on my desktop for many years and I never had any issues - so of course I installed it on my laptop (a dedicated SETI cruncher) also.

A few days ago, after upgrading all SETI apps via the new lunatics installer, I discovered that there is something wrong with my system.
APs were always running around 30 hours on my lappy. Should be faster with the new apps but what I saw were APs that only were around 50% after 20 hours. I was like "what the hell?" and hit ctrl+alt+del to check what's going on here. Well, I found 4x lunatics AP apps running but just using about 12% CPU each. I scrolled a bit and found 2 instances of "Avira in product messaging" running, each of those instances using about 25% CPU power!

I had the same problem 2 more times. The second time it was "just" 1 instance running, taking up 1 of my 4 cores. But yesterday I found 3(!) of those instances running in the backround which means that there was just a quarter of the whole CPU power left to run SETI! Every AP task was running with just around 6% CPU!

Of course that is completly unacceptable so I deinstalled Avira today and installed Avast therefore. I hope I won't have any more problems like that in the future.

So to everybody here running Avira Free I can just recommend to check via task manager if your system is running as it should.

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I have heard of this "anti virus software", but I don't touch the stuff myself.

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I have removed Avira years ago when i started at Lunatics.
It might be a good idea to add Boinc dir to ignore list for AV software.

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