With Avast Premier running and after a full system scan that number went up to 2,459. Before Avast Premier was installed, the test PC using PC Mark 8 scored 2,436. For the larger malware protection test using nearly 12,000 test cases, Avast Free had a 99 percent offline and online detection rate, a 100 percent online protection rate, and five false alarms.įor our in-house performance tests, Avast remains an excellent choice when you’re looking to avoid too much stress on system resources. In its real-world protection test for September 2018, Avast Free had a 100 percent block rate with no false positives, a fantastic score based on 197 test cases. We’ll update this section once newer scores are made available.ĪV-Comparatives offers more recent scores but still came out before Avast 2019’s October release. These tests happened before Avast’s 2019 products came out, and while they offer similar detection capabilities, some of the newer features are missing. The larger “widepsread and prevalent malware” test with nearly 20,000 samples had a score of 99.9 and 100 percent in July and August, respectively.
During those tests, the protection against zero-day and web and email threats was 99.2 percent in July and 100 percent in August based on 275 samples. During my time trying out the new feature, it blocked a OneDrive phishing site almost right away, but then Avira didn’t let out a peep when I landed on the login page for a phishing site posing as, a popular trading and Bitcoin wallet service.ĪV-Test’s most recent look at Avast was in July and August when it analyzed Avast Free.
I didn’t run a formal test of Avast’s phishing capabilities but I did visit Comodo’s to find some current phishing sites so I could see the new feature in action. It informs you the site was blocked for potential phishing and then advises you to scan your PC, as pictured here.Īvast’s approach analyzes various components of a site to detect nefarious behavior including a site’s URL, domain meta information, and “the visual aspects of sites.” Avast says this new approach allows it to “recognize new phishing sites in seconds,” but I’m not so sure about that. With Avast Premier, when a phishing site is detected the suite throws up a medium-sized alert window in the center of the screen. Typically, security suites install a browser extension in your default browser and flag suspicious sites that way. But for 2019, Avast Premier can flag phishing sites without a browser extension. Avast Premier 2019’s anti-phishing alert window.Īnti-phishing technology is a mainstay in Avast’s security suites, as it is in most security suites these days.
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