Avast Antivirus Review | SafeWise

Avast has one of the lightest touches on the market when it comes to quietly doing its job without interfering with your computer experience, but its scans may run longer than expected.

If Avast catches any suspicious threats that it doesn’t recognize, it sends them to its virus lab in the cloud for analysis. If the lab identifies one of these threats as malware, it notifies all Avast users. Not only does this keep your antivirus software current, it also adds more layers of protection.

Avast One Essential blocked 100% of malware and 100% of malware encountered online—according to tests from October 2022, run by the independent testing organization AV Test. It is one of the top performing antivirus software suites tested by the organization.

When we tried out the antivirus protection software, the smart scan was speedy and didn’t seem to bog down our computer. While that’s great, the software alerted us to some “Advanced Issues.”  The issues were, basically, that we were using the free version and didn’t have VPN or website browser protection. Then the software prompted us to upgrade to the paid plans to fix the issues. That, along with the pop-ups to buy other Avast software, seemed a little swarmy to us.