Virus Protection in Virtual Machine?

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Hi there. This maybe aint Avast specific but a general Antivir-Question:

I’m quite fed up with Windows getting worse the longer I use it, so I decided to clean up my PC, create some VMs and use one VM per goal (one for coding, one for surfing, one for office stuff etc.)

Now my question is: Does each OS inside these VMs need Virus Protection or can the Virus Protection of the Hosting system also protect the VMs?

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Yes, each VM needs it’s own virus protection. Files downloaded and executed need scanning.
Although, WebShield of the host system will scan the html traffic used by the Virtual Machine.

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Ideally you should do “dangerous stuff” in the vm , and do sensitive stuff in the real machine since they can’t get out to your real machine. As you intend to reset to the known safe state after a while it is less important to protect the vm environment.

You should investigate network control between vm and physical machine though,.