Avira has new Risk Levels

I published a new article in the Avira Techblog: Combined Avira Risk Level

We now have a new risk indicator: Global
This indicator combines the other 3 in the easiest way possible.
One might argue that Malware is more important than phishing and spam.
Maybe, but they are all treated equally in our system. This means that even if we have a Malware outbreak (level 4 and 5), we don’t generate more updates because of this.
So, until we decide to change this, the Global Risk Level remains like this


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