Avast Free Antivirus software has around 400 million subscribers around the world. It is considered to be the next generation cyber security feature when it comes to device protection. Avast Free Antivirus is excellent in removing and automatically scanning the viruses. It has done excellently on lab tests and network security scanning tests. Avast Free Antivirus protects the systems from domain name service hackers.

Avast has many features. There is a sandbox-like beta testing platform for running suspect programs.

Avast’s main advantage is that is has almost 3/4 ^th of all these features on the free version of Avast Free Antivirus software. There are certain myths about Avast Free Antivirus which are call blocking, anti-theft reliability feature, and that the setup of the Avast Free Antivirus program takes a lot of time and that there are a lot of ads in the free version. However, that is not the case. The Avast Free Antivirus version was earlier called Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus which has around 100 million downloads on the app store with a rating of 4.5.

Avast Antivirus has undergone a lot of changes in the last couple of years. There were a few bugs during 2014-2015 that had ads popping up. However, Avast limited them to 1½ ads per day. Avast had to re-launch their app because this became an issue with the users of the antivirus.

The Avast Free Antivirus 2018 has come with a free premium version. This is a pro tier delivering the ad free experience. The malware detection rates have become more consistent and have been perfect. Call blocker will not work nor will anti-theft. When you look at the malware protection, Avast malware scanning is done throughout the whole system. When you open the PC dashboard there is a green button to perform a manual scan option or you can choose the automatic scanning option as well every week or month. Avast Free Antivirus takes 45 seconds to 1 minute for a full scan and the app allows the users to schedule these scans as well. Avast has a web shield that protects you from browser hackers, like Android Browser, Chrome, Silk Browser Boat Browser and Boat Browser Mini. If you happen to open a phishing website, it is automatically closed and disabled for your use because it is malicious and is handled by Avast Free Antivirus. Avast’s malware performance has received remarkable reviews from customers as well. The September 2017 version has detected around 99.8% malware in real time and 100% on samples that were collected for four weeks.

In fact, Avast has beaten the records of 95.7 real time threats compared to other software and 21 Android security apps. If the word PRO would not have been mentioned on the title bar, it would have been hard to distinguish between the free version and the pro version. Both the versions have same gray color as the background with the left corner as the menu and panels with green and purple color.

The latest version has an easy-to-use interface that checks the entire system from your passwords to home network security. Its new Game Mode puts all the systems notifications on hold while you get maximum processing power and speed for the games you play.