Review of avast pro antivirus

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Sign in close. Lost your password? Remember me. The premium rendition of Avast comes with more features and is advised for everyone. It is full understand is strong and comprehensive. The program is simple and minimalistic, having a dark blue and white colored theme. The key screen exhibits the diagnostic scan button focused. The Privateness tab contains privacy adjustments, a security password manager, and a data shredder.

Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Avast includes its Secure Browser as well. It looks and function identical to Google Chrome but without the Google integration. One of the unique extensions is a video downloader. Avast allows you to download video from platform like YouTube and Vimeo in native resolution.

We like Secure Browser a lot. If anything, speeds are improved from the ad and flash blocks that Avast implements. Avast uses real-time monitoring along with a feature called Real Site for spoof webpages. It will scan all devices on home or public wi-fi for vulnerabilities, a quick way to know if your router or another device is infected. Avast will warn you of a privacy vulnerability when using most features. You can read our Avast SecureLine review for our full thoughts, though.

Considering its price, Avast is generous with features. You have tools for quick, secure and convenient browsing between Secure Browser and the password manager. Among the list are a file shredder, webcam shield, firewall and ransomware protection. For those features, we recommend upgrading to the still very cheap Avast Internet Security. The differences between Avast Free and Avast Pro are few, but we still think an upgrade is worth it. Rates are inexpensive across the board, too, putting this antivirus in a price bracket all its own.

Avast Pro uses a clean interface that mirrors the free offering. The slate grey background is complemented by streaks of green with four tabs on the side for managing your protection. Clicking on any of them will bring up a menu with icons for the different features laid out like tiles. It gets tricky after that. Only some of the features will show the lock, but not all of them. The majority of your use will come with the protection tab.

Here, you can set scans, use Wi-Fi Inspector, access Sandbox and more. Avast includes four different scan modes with an additional option for custom configurations.

In addition, a basic password manager uses Chrome and Firefox add-ons that automatically collects new passwords as they get entered, then syncs them on your multiple devices, and can then later fill in login forms.

A SecureLine VPN icon looks promising on first glance, but then we came to the realization that it was a premium feature. We do appreciate the day trial, quite generous for a VPN, but beyond that there is an additional monthly cost.

However, it is not all upsells, though, and we found some redeeming features. A recent addition is the Avast's Do Not Disturb mode, which can add any applications to the Do Not Disturb list, and when these apps are running full-screen, Avast hides all those pesky notifications from itself, Windows as well as other apps.

We consider it a major improvement to the Game Mode offered by some other security apps, and an overall plus to the package. A final major Avast highlight is the extreme configurability it brings to the table.

True granular control awaits, with every last aspect of the program able to be tweaked, customized and tuned for your specific needs. For a variety of needs, from troubleshooting problems, minimizing conflicts or just improving operations, there's something for all users here. AV-Comparatives' Real-World Protection Test looks at how 18 top antivirus engines perform, when put against the latest in malware. The August report finds that Avast delivers a high In order to verify these results, we also turned to the February-June report, which is a summary of five separate tests.

On this testing, Avast made it into 9th place, again with a high protection rate of With no way to match the depth of these independent lab tests during a single review, however we desired to examine Avast Pro Antivirus further with our own small test.

We turn to a very basic ransomware simulator of our own creation, designed to go through a folder tree, looking for and encrypting multiple common file types. This threat is not publicly released, so Avast can't have any experience with it.

Using this ransomware facilitates identifying whether Avast can identify the malware via behavior alone, and also how fast the threat can be neutralized, as the slower the program is to respond, the more files that are vulnerable to being lost. We shut down our internet connection to ensure we were dealing with only the local package, launched the ransomware simulator, and waited for some kind of detection alert.

Unfortunately, we report that our hopes were dashed, as the simulated ransomware proceeded, completely unchecked, and encrypted thousands of files in the target test folder tree. Other antivirus software has performed significantly better. Bitdefender and Kaspersky antivirus were both able to detect and kill the ransomware within seconds, and also recovered the few encrypted files, so there was no loss of data. Still, our results on the simulated ransomware test should be kept in perspective.