Avast Free Antivirus 19.7.4674.667

When looking for the right free antivirus tool, you’ll surely come across a wide range of attractive prospects. Many of these candidates, though, will simply give you a squalid layer of protection, while others will simply work as permanent ads for their paid version. Avast Free Antivirus, however, does protect your computer from nearly all kinds of malware programs and viruses in an honest and efficient way. For the same price, it offers you a game mode, a browser clean-up tool, a password manager, and other interesting free utilities.

I must confess that after years of paying annual fees for antivirus tools designed to keep entire corporations locked up in their ivory towers, I decided it was time to downsize. I know that we are all potential targets for all kinds of vicious attacks, but if you – like me – do not keep any sensitive state secrets or the data stored on your computer is not worth millions, a simple yet effective antivirus protection is all you may need to feel safe. More comprehensive commercial protection tools may well be even more effective, but that will also cost you in terms of PC resources. The last paid antivirus tool installed on my computer not only blocked most of my communications with the outside world (potentially dangerous or not), but it also compromised my productivity by taking up too much of my PC’s RAM memory. Avast provides you with a completely free, easy to install, low resource-consuming, and reliable antivirus that blocks all the most common threats attempting to steal your private and sensitive information before they touch your computer, and that is probably why this free antivirus tool is the most popular among PC users all around the world.

The program comes with other useful extra utilities, such as the Do Not Disturb Mode that blocks distracting pop-ups that may distract you while gaming or performing certain other actions that require your full attention. The Behavior Shield keeps track of your applications’ performance in order to keep honest apps honest. CyberCapture sends dodgy files for analysis – if they happen to be a real threat, it is automatically notified all Avast users. Your Wi-Fi network is also permanently protected thanks to Wi-Fi Inspector, and the program’s Smart Scan will look for the tiniest crack that may compromise your security and privacy.

But at the end of the day, it all comes down to the level of protection you can live with and to how much memory you are willing to sacrifice in order to be 100 % protected – if that’s at all possible. The four processes that Avast Free Antivirus activates to keep you protected will take up a third of what your average browser takes up just by being ready. On the downside, threats such as ransomware attacks, anti-spam, or webcam protection are not included in the free package. The average user, however, will find the free option more than satisfactory when it comes to basic yet effective antivirus and malware protection. If, however, you’re willing to pay a fee for all these extra features and a few others, you are invited to upgrade to Avast Premium Security.