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Avast acquired rival free antivirus company AVG in 2016. Fans of both companies can rest easy; years and years later, there's still no plan to merge them into a single product. Both have millions of users worldwide, but each is strong in geographical areas where the other is weak. And the underlying antivirus engine is identical in Avast and AVG AntiVirus Free, as demonstrated in both our tests and independent lab tests.
This product is only free for personal use. If you want to use Avast in a business setting, you must upgrade to Avast Premium Security, which replaces both Avast Internet Security and the all-inclusive Avast Premier. It's a simpler product line than most, just a free antivirus and a for-pay suite. Not surprisingly, AVG follows the same model.
You might not realize this, but in most cases antivirus companies pay for the privilege of having products tested by the independent labs. The company does benefit; a high score gives it bragging rights, while if the score is poor, the lab helps the company work through what went wrong. With a free antivirus that doesn't bring in any income, a company might be tempted to avoid the expense of testing. Not Avast. We follow four independent testing labs that regularly release reports on their results, and all four routinely include Avast. Three of them include AVG in their latest reports as well.
AV-Test Institute(Opens in a new window) reports on antivirus capabilities in three areas: protection, performance, and usability. With six points possible in each category, the maximum score is 18 points. Avast took six points for usability, meaning it didn't erroneously flag valid programs or websites as malicious, and six more points for malware protection. It came close in performance, with 5.5 points. AVG precisely matched that score.
The samples I use for the malware blocking test stay the same for months. To evaluate each product's capabilities against the very latest malware, I start with a feed of malware-hosting URLs supplied by MRG-Effitas(Opens in a new window). Typically, these are no more than a few days old. I try to launch each one, recording whether the antivirus blocked access to the URL, eliminated the malware download, or totally failed to notice anything wrong.
Clicking Virus Scans on the Protection page gets you more choices. The Full Virus Scan took 85 minutes on my standard clean test system, quite a bit longer than the 34 minutes it required when last tested. You really should run a full scan after installing any antivirus. Once that scan has rooted out any malware that was already present, the many real-time protection layers should handle any new attack.
Avira users can install Avira Home Guard from the main Avira launcher; it works very much like the Wi-Fi Inspector. Bitdefender Home Scanner is another similar (and free) network security scanner, one that goes into more depth about possible security problems. But, as noted, neither of these comes close to Avast in the range of different device types you can use to tag found items.
When Do Not Disturb mode is active, the antivirus postpones scheduled scans and suspends all but the most critical notifications. This kind of feature is becoming very common in antivirus products. Avast notices when you run a program full-screen and offers to add it to the list. You can also manually add programs to the list.
Avast used to offer a free password manager, but at present all features on the Privacy page are locked for free users. You must upgrade to get the secure deletion Data Shredder (AVG gives you this feature at the free level). The Sensitive Data Shield scans your documents for sensitive data that could be vulnerable to exfiltration, and helps you protect it. The Webcam Shield offers a degree of spyware protection by limiting webcam use to known, trusted programs. AntiTrack Premium supplements the Do Not Track protection found in Secure Browser.
The button for Avast SecureLine VPN displays a lock, but it isn't precisely locked away. Clicking the button starts the installation process, leaving you thinking that maybe you scored free access. Only when you've gone through the process, launched the program, and tried to make a VPN connection do you find out that you must pay $2.89 per month to use it beyond a seven-day trial.
Excellent all-round protection provided by a range of powerful tools, even in the free version. Paid-for versions add additional security, but for general home users the free version will do everything it needs for all-round protection.
Avast One (opens in new tab) is the new name for Avast's revamped and redesigned consumer security range, and combines antivirus (opens in new tab), VPN (opens in new tab), privacy and security tools to keep you safe online.
Avast One Essential is one of the best free antivirus apps, but stuffed with features: antivirus, ransomware protection (opens in new tab), anti-phishing and a simple firewall (opens in new tab), with apps for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS.
Several options aren't available in the free Avast One Essentials (Webcam Protection, Web Hijack Guard, Driver Updater, more.) Some free apps don't mark these, so you're forever clicking buttons and being told 'can't have that until you upgrade, you freeloader.' Avast highlights options you can't use with a padlock, a smarter approach which makes One Essential much more comfortable to use.
Avast One's antivirus features begin with the Smart Scan. Launch this with a click and it runs a 10-15 second Quick Scan for malware, combined with checks for dubious browser (opens in new tab) add-ons and PC performance issues. (It doesn't look for missing software patches, unlike the previous Avast Antivirus, although you can still do this manually.)
We scan the same test data a second time to find out whether an antivirus uses any optimizations. Avast's time dropped fractionally to 27 minutes, similar to Avira's second scan of 24:41. But some apps only scan files if they're new or change, and that makes a huge difference. Bitdefender's second scan of our test data took 27 seconds, and Kaspersky managed 170 seconds.
Some antivirus apps perform much better on this test. Bitdefender and Kaspersky not only killed the simulator within a fraction of a second, but they also recovered the handful of files it managed to encrypt (five to ten.)
There's a data limit, too, although that looks relatively generous at 5GB a week. Avira's Phantom VPN gives you a miserly 500MB a month, Bitdefender's VPN offers 200MB a day (6GB a month), even Windscribe (opens in new tab)'s excellent free plan stops at 10GB a month. Proton VPN (opens in new tab)'s unlimited data plan is still top of the free VPN list, but Avast is way better than most.
Avast One only supports updating 50 common apps, though, compared to 150 for Avira, and hundreds for some of the free patch management competition. Still, it's a useful tool and we're glad to see it included in the suite.
All Avast One users (free and paid) get access to a Clear Browsing Data feature, where you can quickly clear away your browsing history, cache, cookies and more. This works much like every other web cleanup tool you've ever used, but Avast does deserve credit for its wide app support: the module cleaned Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, Brave and even Thunderbird on our test system.
Performance Boost lists apps running in the software and can selectively optimize them. This effectively freezes a process, preventing it using any system resources. Avast restores the process when you open the app again and it should work as normal. 2ff7e9595c
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