Antivirus Control Center is the service name of the executable file called avcenter.exe, and a part of the program Avira Free Antivirus, also Avira Antivirus, or AntiVir Desktop, or Avira AntiVir Personal – Free, or Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition, which are all security products created by Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG. Antivirus Control Center, also known as Avira Control Center, is a type of free antivirus program that runs in the background, which is able to check each and every file that is installed onto the computer. Generally, it is a program that checks viruses, worms, spyware, malware, Trojan horses and other malicious threats, and removes them, to avoid affecting the performance of the system, and infect other files or programs within the computer. Because of its essential function to the whole computer, and as it is digitally signed (Avira GmbH - VeriSign Time Stamping Services Signer - G2), avcenter.exe is recommended to remain running in the background.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. avcenter.exe. is used by Avira Free Antivirus or Avira Antivirus, If you shut down avcenter.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop avcenter.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Avira Free Antivirus or Avira Antivirus, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed avcenter.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Avira Free Antivirus or Avira Antivirus, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if avcenter.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that avcenter.exe, belongs to, in this case Avira Free Antivirus or Avira Antivirus