Avast Antivirus

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Backed by excellent lab scores and robust real-world protection, Avast One Premium offers a comprehensive security experience for Mac owners willing to invest in extra features.

Avast One Free combines excellent malware protection, cross-platform support, and an impressive collection of security and privacy tools, making it one of the best free antivirus solutions.

Avast One Free delivers top-tier Mac malware protection and strong lab-tested security for free, but many of its most useful privacy and system tools are locked behind paid upgrades.

Both Avast One Basic and AVG AntiVirus Free provide excellent antivirus and security protection at absolutely no cost. Is one better than the other? I compare their most important capabilities and features to determine the answer.

AVG AntiVirus Free offers the same powerful antivirus protection engine used by Avast and Norton, plus many useful bonus features, all at no cost.

The federal regulator is also fining Avast $16.5 million for promising to protect users' privacy when it was actually harvesting their data to sell to third-party companies.

NortonLifeLock previously bought up another antivirus provider called Avira.

Avast Premium Security for Mac adds ransomware protection and Wi-Fi intruder detection to the features found in Avast's free antivirus, but these extras may not merit its price.

Avast Free Antivirus combines an antivirus engine that scores high in testing with a surprisingly extensive collection of bonus features.

Avast Security for Mac delivers effective malware protection along with a network security scanner. The labs love it, and it scores high in our phishing protection test. It's also free. Give it a try.

On Tuesday, Avast responded to a PCMag-Motherboard investigation into the company's browser history collection practices, saying it was entirely legal. Avast users should expect to see a prompt from the antivirus products, asking them to consent to the data harvesting.

Avast is harvesting users' browser histories on the pretext that the data has been 'de-identified,' thus protecting your privacy. But the data, which is being sold to third parties, can be linked back to people's real identities, exposing every click and search they've made.

Andromeda has been active at least since 2011, and was notorious for infecting computers around the globe to form a botnet.

Avast Pro Antivirus 2017 offers the same wealth of features as its free edition, and not a lot more. It's an excellent product, but for most people the free version will suffice.

Avast to acquire rival AVG Technologies in a mega-deal that reshapes the security software landscape.

With its cartoonish minions and colloquial language, you'd never know that avast! GrimeFighter is a sophisticated Linux-based antivirus and optimization tool. It does a good job, but lacks a few features found in its predecessor, Jumpshot.

The Internet is full of questionable things, but few are worse than browser-based malware.