ProsGood malware detection and blocking Friendly interfaceCons
Lacks some common featuresBottom Line
Avast’s latest security suite is effective in defending against malware, but it could stand to improve in cleanup.
Although it ranked in the bottom half of our Top 10, the Avast package is easy to use, and in general it will protect your PC quite capably.
A solid choice for keeping you safe, Avast Internet Security 6 ($50 for one year and one PC as of January 25, 2012) finished sixth in our 2012 roundup of security suites.Avast’s suite blocked 96.2 percent of malware in our real-world tests, which help determine how well security products can stop brand-new malware. With that result, it placed near the top of the pack; even so, the very best performers in our test group were able to stop all attacks. The Avast suite also managed to stop 99.75 percent of known malware samples, which is an excellent showing, but again, not the absolute best we’ve seen (our top performer detected over 99.99 percent of samples in this test). It achieved a perfect score in our false-positives test, flagging not a single safe file as being potentially malicious.
Regrettably, although the Avast software proved adept at identifying and neutralizing all infections on our test PC, it left more malware remnants behind than many of its competitors did.
The complete review can be read on PC World
