But if you really don't need them enabled, you can tell Avast that you want to ignore those warnings, and it won't bother you about those settings again. Now, ordinarily, an antivirus app will keep warning you to turn these features back on. If, for example, you use webmail and/or you find that Avast's Web Shield interferes with your web browsing, you can disable both relevant protection layers, while keeping the others active. ProsĮasy to use: Avast has four main protection components: File Shield, Behavior Shield, Web Shield, and Mail Shield.
Here are the highlights of Avast's latest release. The company acquired its rival AVG in September of 2016, and now both use Avast's malware scanning engine, but their distinct personalities remain. Avast has one of the most popular antivirus apps around, due in part to offering a free version, and it's one that performs respectably.
