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The Avast Online Security Buyer's Guide
Simple, effortless security while you shop, bank, and browse online. Learn why hundreds of millions of users around the world trust Avast to protect their everyday digital lives.
When you live, work, and play online, digital security matters. Whether you are shopping, banking, streaming, gaming, answering email, or just browsing the web, every online action can expose you to potential risk from privacy-invading trackers, hackers, and scammers. But while it might seem like danger is around every corner, taking back control is easy.
Millions of users around the world trust Avast to provide simple, reliable security for their everyday digital lives. With more than three decades of experience in keeping its users safe online, Avast’s suite of security tools combine powerful, AI-driven protection that offer effortless ease of use, helping you to safeguard your data, protect your privacy, and even optimize your devices.
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Avast Online Security – Overview
How to Choose Security Software
Viruses are old news. These days, digital security is about ensuring privacy, performance and peace of mind. For the best protection, you need a security suite that can fend off ransomware, phishing attempts, and online scams, while keeping your data private, and your computer – or your phone or tablet – running smooth and fast.
When choosing a security suite, start by eliminating any software that doesn’t offer comprehensive protection against a wide range of modern digital threats, plus privacy protection. Check out independent testing from review sites such as PCWorld, and lab testing from AV-Test, AV-Comparatives, and SE Labs. If it can’t do its most basic job right, it’s not worth a second glance.
Next, consider ease of use. You’re too busy to have to keep tabs on what your security suite is up to. The best security tools let you configure effortless set-and-forget protection, yet quickly and easily jump in and make manual adjustments when you need to.
The smartest security software operates seamlessly in the background, and never slows you down. Because you care about performance, consider a security suite that can speed up your device by clearing out junk files and clutter, updating apps and drivers, and fine-tuning your settings.
Avast offers a range of smart security products that deliver multilayered defense against modern digital threats, whether you’re accessing the web at home or on the go. You’ll even find tools that keep your online identity private, and your devices running like new. Let’s dive in.
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Choose your Avast Security Product
Avast Premium Security – effortless set-and-forget digital protection
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Avast Premium Security delivers next-generation protection for those who want reliable security software that just works, without nagging alerts or device slowdowns – you might even forget it’s there. Regardless, you can take peace of mind from the knowledge that this security suite goes beyond basic antivirus, offering comprehensive protection against ransomware, phishing attacks, and online scams, and tools to defend your data, identity, and online connections. Its real-time detection engine stops modern digital threats before they can reach you, while an advanced firewall and Wi-Fi Inspector let you hop on any network without fear of who’s watching your online activity. This effortless security solution syncs seamlessly across all your devices, keeping you safe at all times, whether you’re streaming on your laptop or shopping on your phone.
Avast Ultimate – complete digital protection for ultimate peace of mind
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Avast Ultimate offers a triple-whammy of digital security, privacy protection, and device optimization in a single suite, making it ideal for those who want complete control over their security tool, value convenience, and desire ultimate peace of mind for their digital life. This all-in-one security suite combines four of Avast’s most powerful security tools, including Avast Premium Security, Avast SecureLine VPN, Avast Cleanup Premium, and Avast AntiTrack, and it offers better value than buying each product separately. You can manage each application from a single subscription, so there’s no need to juggle multiple accounts. With its real-time threat defense, private browsing, system optimization, and anti-tracking, Avast Ultimate is simple, smart, seamless and, most importantly, totally secure.
Avast Mobile Security – reliable protection for Android and iOS on the go
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It’s hard to stay alert to digital threats all of the time, and when you’re out and about or relaxing in a social environment that becomes particularly difficult. Avast Mobile Security is your on-the-go guard, running quietly in the background on Android and iOS phones and tablets to ensure your barriers stay up at all times. It will keep your device safe wherever you go, fending off scams, fake sites, and unsafe apps, while offering privacy tools to keep your personal files safe from prying eyes. With Avast’s always-on protection, never again will you worry about shopping or banking while traveling, and you can safely browse, game, stream or communicate in complete confidence. Avast Mobile Security keeps working even when your phone isn’t on you, with device tracking potentially reuniting you following device theft or loss.
Avast Cleanup Premium – keeps devices running fast, smooth, and clean
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Malware doesn’t just threaten your digital safety, it can make your computer run horribly slow. The other thing that does that? Junk files. Step in Avast Cleanup Premium, which wants to sort the digital clutter that’s destroying your system performance, and bring harmony to any time you spend at the screen. More than removing junk files, Cleanup Premium is a complete and hassle-free optimization suite that can find and update old software, unlocking new features and patching possible vulnerabilities, optimize your startup programs to speed up system load times, and generally keep your machine running smooth and responsive. Just as you know it’s important to keep a check on your personal health, cleaning up your PC will keep it running like new for longer and may even extend its lifespan.
Avast AntiTrack – smart privacy protection for truly private browsing
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If you’ve ever looked up a thing online, and then been bombarded with adverts for that very thing on YouTube, social media, websites, and just about everywhere you look, we won’t need to explain the appeal of Avast AntiTrack. By hiding your digital footprint, and wiping any tracking cookies that might have been installed on your device, AntiTrack prevents advertisers and other trackers from following you around the web and ensures your browsing and all other online activity remains private. With no need for you to tinker with browser or app settings, AntiTrack can ensure you stay invisible to any creeps who want to follow you online.
Avast Driver Updater – maintains device performance with zero hassle
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Smart PC users know that outdated drivers can cause havoc with system performance and device reliability. So very often the fix for a peripheral that won’t play nice is to update its driver – but typically you won’t realise your drivers are out of date or even missing altogether until something breaks. Avast Driver Updater takes all the hard work out of driver maintenance, scanning for outdated or missing drivers and automatically downloading and installing them. With no input required from you, it keeps your system running smoother, with fewer crashes, and ensures your components and peripherals operate at optimal performance.
Why Choose Avast to Protect your Digital Security?
Already backed by more than 400 million users, and with over 30 years of innovation in the online security space, Avast products work seamlessly to protect every aspect of your digital life and offer complete peace of mind. Whether you’re shopping, banking, gaming, streaming, communicating, or working, Avast has got your back.
Choose Avast for your digital security and you can rest easy knowing its always-on protection is working silently in the background to keep you safe on all devices, in all situations, and in all places. You can take complete confidence in its effortless yet powerful protection, and you won’t need to lift a finger to fend off trackers, hackers, and scammers.
For the best mix of digital security, privacy protection, and device optimization, choose Avast Ultimate.
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