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The core malware protection features of Avast One Essential are much as you’d expect: on-demand and scheduled malware scanning, real-time protection, ransomware protection, email and web protection, a simple firewall front-end that allows you to grant per-app access, and a selection of privacy and system optimisation tools.

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You also get limited device management that allows you to track lost or stolen Android devices associated with the account, but there’s nothing really essential here if you don’t want yet another account. However, account holders can sign up for alerts that’ll inform you if your email address appears in any breaches. You’re encouraged to create an Avast account, but this isn’t required to use most of Avast’s features. There are no longer prominent ads for the paid version of Avast scattered around the interface, although a number of features are still marked with a lock icon, indicating that they’re only available to premium users.

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The free version is partially funded by advertising, so you’ll be invited to install partner software such as Google Chrome, but this is easy to decline if you don’t want it. Installation is smooth and simple, and you aren’t guilt-tripped about opting for the free version, although an initial scan will detect “advanced issues” that can be solved by getting a premium subscription, even on a freshly-installed PC. Includes malware scanning and real-time protection.

It blocked all malicious content in AV Comparatives’ real-world protection tests, with two false positives and one legitimate software identification at a potential threat that required user intervention.Īnd SELabs found that it protected against 100% of malware, but it misidentified samples of benign software, giving it a legitimate accuracy score of 96%.ĭespite this, Avast is well worth using, as one of the few antivirus suites that actually blocked all malware during this test period. It achieved perfect scores in AV-Test’s latest real-world exposure and reference file-scanning tests, with no false positive identifications of legitimate software. Malware detection performanceĪvast is one of the few detection engines to have protected against all malicious software in recent tests by three labs. However, free malware defence is what Avast is best known for.īut is Avast One Essential one of the best free antivirus options? Or are you better off with the likes of Microsoft Defender Antivirus instead? Here are my thoughts. Like stablemate AVG, which uses the same detection engine, Avast also offers more feature-packed paid-for subscriptions for home and business. It’s recently merged with erstwhile rival NortonLifeLock to form a new company called Gen Digital, but everything’s keeping its original name for the moment. Avast is a long-standing favourite in the world of free malware defence.

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