Avast Premium Security Trial

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YesIf you have a question about setting up any of our solutions, you can reach out to our friendly support team via email, chat, or phone. They can help you at any time, 24 hours a day, Monday to Friday in English speaking countries. For other nations, local business hours apply.

Yes, you can. In fact, you can use your 30-day free trial for Avast Ultimate Business Security on up to 100 devices. To do this, send the necessary installation file to all the PC, macOS, or Windows servers you want to test on.

It starts as soon as you set up your Avast Business Hub account, our cloud-based security platform, and activate the 30-day free trial yourself. We also keep you updated about how much time you have left before your trial expires.

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If you're searching for antivirus software, Avast is a good investment. Third-party tester AV-TEST gave it perfect scores across its Windows, macOS, and Android platforms. With competitive pricing, a free version, and a 30-day free trial, we think Avast antivirus is worth checking out.

All About Cookies RatingOverall Rating: 4.8AllAboutCookies writers and editors score products based on a number of objective features as well as our expert editorial assessment. Our partners do not influence how we rate products.Editorial Rating"Avast is still a good option if you want antivirus protection while shopping or working online, and desire features such as ransomware and phishing protection. This is especially true if you want more straightforward software without some of the bells and whistles other products may offer."

In 2020, Avast was reported to have shared and sold user data. According to the company, the data was stripped of personally identifiable information. That would make it difficult, but not impossible, for hackers to decrypt.[1]

Following the reports, Avast's CEO announced plans to shut down operations at Jumpsot, which was the third party in charge of selling browser history data.[2] Its since created links that read "Do Not Sell or Share My Info" to comply with the CCPA, but it may also be a relief for privacy-concerned users.

Avast is still a good option if you want antivirus protection while shopping or working online, and desire protection from ransomware and phishing. This is especially true if you want more straightforward software without some of the bells and whistles other products may offer.

If you're in need of parental controls but interested in Avast, you can always purchase a parental controls app separately. We've compiled recommendations for the best parental control apps to help guide your search .

Avast is a straightforward antivirus for people who want good security without a ton of extras. For software with good overall security scores and additional features like a virtual private network (VPN) and identity protection tools, the prices are reasonable. Other antivirus products cost two and three times that, though they may offer more features for the money.

The Smart Scan ran in about two minutes and checked more than 160,000 files. After it finished scanning, we received a notification in Scan Central that the premium features were maximizing our security. These features are Ransomware Shield, Network Inspector scanning, and Real Site for fake websites.

Using the scanning features was easy, and there were no issues with either Deep Scan or Smart Scan. For more specific scanning, Avast offers a Targeted Scan where you can select only the files or folders you want to check. It also offers a Boot-Time Scan, which will scan your device during the next system startup.

One of the most common methods of phishing is through email. In an email, a scammer will send links or attachments that lead you to malicious websites and attempt to steal your information. Avast's paid plans include the Email Guardian feature, which scans your direct emails and flags anything suspicious.

Avast Premium Security offers a firewall, but only for devices using Microsoft Windows. It monitors network traffic between your device and outside networks to keep unauthorized users from invading your security.

All Avast plans offer ransomware protection options for various file types, including videos, photos, and documents. You can tailor these preferences as you like, but all are turned on by default, except for the System option.

You won't get any fraud-specific features with Avast until the Avast One Platinum plan. You'll be able to monitor for changes to your credit with all three major bureaus and be alerted of these changes. Other than that, Avast doesn't offer anti-fraud features.

The Network Inspector (formerly Wi-Fi inspector) is helpful for reminding users to run a scan when joining a network for the first time. That could prevent users from downloading malware from an unsecured network.

Finally, Avast Secure Browser is a free download that aims to protect users when online. It blocks malicious websites and downloads, hides what you type online so others cannot intercept your communications, and comes with a banking mode, designed to keep your financial data safe.

We test the antivirus products we review by running an EICAR test. EICAR stands for the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research, which provides a safe and legal framework to test antivirus software for malware detection, potentially unwanted app (PUA) detection, and phishing detection capabilities.

With antivirus, it's also important to review third-party test results for an unbiased look at how the software works. AV-TEST is an independent organization that tests and rates antivirus software in realistic scenarios against real-world threats. It tests antivirus for protection, performance and usability with a maximum of 6.0 points in each category.

The features we found to be the most remarkable were the Smart Scan and Deep Scan. Neither of these showed issues with lag time while having multiple browser tabs opened. The scans were simple and straightforward to perform. None of the scans we ran showed any malware threats.

Avast Premium Security has an impressive customer support system in place. You can contact them via live chat support, phone support, and email support so long as you have a paid version of Avast. Unfortunately, it's unclear if any of these options are 24/7.

We decided to call and ask why the firewall feature was not available for Mac users. After a lengthy discussion and remote access was granted to the rep, we were not given a reason. The support rep told us that he thought it should work, but he was unable to find access to the firewall either.

+Is Avast One a good antivirus?With the reported security scores from AV-TEST and pricing plans, Avast One and its other plans are a good option if you want solid antivirus without many extra features.

Avast has one of the most popular antivirus apps around, due in part to offering a free version, and it's one that performs respectably. The company acquired its rival AVG in September of 2016, and now both use Avast's malware scanning engine, but their distinct personalities remain. Here are the highlights of Avast's latest release.

Easy to use: Avast has four main protection components: File Shield, Behavior Shield, Web Shield, and Mail Shield. If, for example, you use webmail and/or you find that Avast's Web Shield interferes with your web browsing, you can disable both relevant protection layers, while keeping the others active. Now, ordinarily, an antivirus app will keep warning you to turn these features back on. But if you really don't need them enabled, you can tell Avast that you want to ignore those warnings, and it won't bother you about those settings again.

Solid protection: According to independent labs, such as AV-Test and AV-Comparatives, Avast Free isn't quite as sharp as industry leaders like Trend Micro or Bitdefender, but it's arguably the best protection you'll find that comes without a price tag.

Aggressively low pricing: If you do decide to order Avast Pro, you can do so from within the app, and Avast offers a one-year subscription for a reasonable $15, which is about half of its street price. If you change your mind, Avast offers a 60-day trial of Avast Internet Security, which was priced at $20 a year. Pro purports to add enhancements to online banking security and "a test space for checking suspicious apps." This latter function appears to be a sandbox, in which you can open an app and investigate its behavior without risking an infection.

Relatively muted sales pitch: Free antivirus apps have a reputation for being pretty pushy about paying for a subscription, but Avast is on the low-key end of the spectrum (and it has been for a number of years). There are a couple upgrade buttons on the main console, and a number of features (a firewall, URL safety verifier, and "Webcam Shield," among others) that redirect you to an order screen when you click on them, but nothing felt particularly tricky, and the sales pitch doesn't make ironclad claims about what the program can do.

Data collection transparency: Avast tells you right off the bat that it wants to gather anonymized usage data, some of which may be used to help fund development, but you can disable this function in the Privacy settings. Though it would be nice if it explained what "certain" information it wanted to gather.

Some settings could use more explanation: Avast's settings menus have a number of icons marked with an exclamation point that you can click on for further details. But the description for CyberCapture doesn't sound substantially different from what a virus scanner already does: It "analyzes unrecognized files, defends and warns you about new threats, and helps keep your system secure." And Hardened Mode is there "to further lock down the security of this computer." But in what way?

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