Ativador avast pro antivirus

Besides the enhanced protection, it has got some advanced features like SafeZone, for safe online shopping and banking; silent Firewall, to prevent hacker attacks. This top of the range antivirus is not like the others. Because it blocks all webcam-hacking, and stops ransomware before it starts. It protects your PC, home network, and passwords against zero-second threats with smart cloud-based detection. It updates your apps automatically and shreds your data permanently when you say so.

Keep spies and snoops off your webcam, can hackers really hijack your webcam? Yes — until now. Webcam Shield makes anything and anyone gets your permission before they can use it so nobody takes a peek unless you say so.

You can even disable your camera for good — and enable it again. Keep hostage-takers off your files. Ransomware Shield keeps your most important files from being encrypted and held hostage, and lets only trusted apps alter them in any way. More people around the world trust Avast for their security than any other company. That means better security for all of us. The reason is simple: We see and react to more data from more users, so we can make your protection better.

This is quite thorough, scanning for viruses, missing software updates, bad browser add-ons, issues with network security, weak passwords, performance problems and also more. Overall, some of this works really well. The virus scan gets done quickly and identified our malware samples without any problem.

The network check-up does a good job as well, and found some low-level, yet important issues with our network, including a router with open ports to the internet. The software updater also noticed our versions of CCleaner, Firefox and WinZip were not the latest, and provided a pathway to update them for us. Unfortunately, other features simply are not as useful.

For an antivirus product to suggest removing a browser extension, we would prefer to see some better supporting evidence for that decision, or quite frankly, any evidence at all. Even more annoying is the Performance Issues page.

There's also more upselling as Smart Scan concludes, with the package offering to check out your internet privacy, and then inevitably recommends a sign up for Avast's SecureLine VPN. Thankfully, in the Settings dialog there are options for customizing the Smart Scan to check things to your liking.

We chose to disable the Performance Issues and Browser Add-ons check, the pointless alerts were quashed, with the scan completing in less than half the time. You are also not stuck only with the Smart Scan, and on the Scans panel, there are options for running a quick or full system scan, checking specific files or folders, or scheduling a boot-time scan. Files, folders and drives can also be assessed directly via the File Explorer right-click menu.

Another highlight is the option for the creation of your own custom scans. By way of example, if you want to run an in-depth scan on only Office documents in specific folders, this can be built and saved in just a few seconds. Then it can be run on demand, or scheduled to run automatically, even unmonitored. There is also a separate Rescue Disk feature that sets up a bootable environment for dealing with a seriously infected system. Some Network-related tools include the Wi-Fi Inspector, which scans your current network, lists all connected devices and then recommends solutions for any identified issues, ie: close open ports, update a weak password with a more secure one, etc.

It's a rare gem of an antivirus extra which, despite it being bundled into the software, we'd encourage you to download anyway. This tool will prevent attackers from getting into your DNS traffic, and letting you become the victim of a phishing attack via a fake website made to appear as the original.

Avast also has Sandbox, for running files that are questionable in a secure virtual space, safely away so they can't damage your PC. In general, most users are better off not running these types of files in the first place, but this is useful for experts that need to deal with such files.

In addition, a basic password manager uses Chrome and Firefox add-ons that automatically collects new passwords as they get entered, then syncs them on your multiple devices, and can then later fill in login forms. A SecureLine VPN icon looks promising on first glance, but then we came to the realization that it was a premium feature. We do appreciate the day trial, quite generous for a VPN, but beyond that there is an additional monthly cost.

However, it is not all upsells, though, and we found some redeeming features. A recent addition is the Avast's Do Not Disturb mode, which can add any applications to the Do Not Disturb list, and when these apps are running full-screen, Avast hides all those pesky notifications from itself, Windows as well as other apps. We consider it a major improvement to the Game Mode offered by some other security apps, and an overall plus to the package.

A final major Avast highlight is the extreme configurability it brings to the table. True granular control awaits, with every last aspect of the program able to be tweaked, customized and tuned for your specific needs. For a variety of needs, from troubleshooting problems, minimizing conflicts or just improving operations, there's something for all users here.

AV-Comparatives' Real-World Protection Test looks at how 18 top antivirus engines perform, when put against the latest in malware. The August report finds that Avast delivers a high In order to verify these results, we also turned to the February-June report, which is a summary of five separate tests. On this testing, Avast made it into 9th place, again with a high protection rate of With no way to match the depth of these independent lab tests during a single review, however we desired to examine Avast Pro Antivirus further with our own small test.

We turn to a very basic ransomware simulator of our own creation, designed to go through a folder tree, looking for and encrypting multiple common file types. This threat is not publicly released, so Avast can't have any experience with it.

Using this ransomware facilitates identifying whether Avast can identify the malware via behavior alone, and also how fast the threat can be neutralized, as the slower the program is to respond, the more files that are vulnerable to being lost.

We shut down our internet connection to ensure we were dealing with only the local package, launched the ransomware simulator, and waited for some kind of detection alert.

Unfortunately, we report that our hopes were dashed, as the simulated ransomware proceeded, completely unchecked, and encrypted thousands of files in the target test folder tree.

Other antivirus software has performed significantly better. Bitdefender and Kaspersky antivirus were both able to detect and kill the ransomware within seconds, and also recovered the few encrypted files, so there was no loss of data. Still, our results on the simulated ransomware test should be kept in perspective.