It’s an important investigation, as the buy-out would mean that three major free antivirus brands – Avast, AVG and Avira – would all be owned by a single company with a core interest in paid-for antivirus. However, this has been held up by a UK Competition and Markets Authority inquiry into the potential negative impact of this move on UK consumers. Like stablemate AVG, the brand also offers more feature-packed paid-for subscriptions, which I’ve reviewed, too but the free version is what Avast is best known for.Īvast was set to be bought by NortonLifeLock, maker of Norton 360 (which also owns rival free-antivirus maker Avira) in spring 2022. Existing users will automatically be updated to the new branding and interface. This means that the software formerly known as Avast Free Antivirus is now Avast One Essential. Free VPN: 5GB per week free VPN serviceĪvast is a long-standing favourite in the world of free malware defence, and it’s just given its entire product range a refresh.
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Gaming mode Ceases notifications and CPU-intensive activity when a game or application runs at full screen.Per-folder ransomware protection Select specific folders to be protected against unauthorised changes.
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