All versions of Avast One have the option to scan a database of data breaches provided by dark web monitoring experts SpyCloud to find out if their account details have been exposed.
Avast One's paid products add breach monitoring, where the app automatically checks new breaches and warns you if your credentials are included. The paid editions also include Browser Protection, a feature which limits access to passwords stored in your browser. We tried using a couple of NirSoft tools to access our Chrome and Firefox passwords and Browser Protection worked perfectly, spotting the attempt, and blocking access until we approved it.
These features are genuinely useful, but they don't add a great deal of value to the suite. You can already scan data breaches for your details at Have I Been Pwned , and optionally get a notification if they turn up in a new breach. And the most secure way to handle passwords isn't to control how they're accessed in the browser, but not to store them in the browser in the first place. You're far safer with a quality password manager such as Dashlane.
Avast One Essential's Software Updater scans your apps, detecting and listing missing updates. It'll install them, too, although you must manually click an Update button for every app you'd like patched. Upgrade to Avast One Individual and you get the ability to automatically update all your apps. We tried this, and Software Updater found six available updates, downloaded the patches in parallel, then silently installed them, all in a very few seconds.
This looks good and performs reasonably well, especially the free version. Avira's free Software Updater tells you about missing updates but won't do anything to install them until you upgrade.
Avast One only supports updating 50 common apps, though, compared to for Avira, and hundreds for some of the free patch management competition. Still, it's a useful tool and we're glad to see it included in the suite. All Avast One users free and paid get access to a Clear Browsing Data feature, where you can quickly clear away your browsing history, cache, cookies and more.
This works much like every other web cleanup tool you've ever used, but Avast does deserve credit for its wide app support: the module cleaned Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, Brave and even Thunderbird on our test system.
Paying for Avast One Individual or family gets you a number of other interesting and unusual features. The Sensitive Data Shield SDS automatically scans your drive for files which might contain sensitive data - names, addresses, passwords, financial details and more - and prevents other users of your device from accessing them. VIPRE's Privacy Shield does something similar, but both tools have the same issue: they're not great at identifying which documents are safe, and which aren't.
SDS highlighted some files apparently just because they contained our and a few other names, for instance, but ignored others containing our bank account details. You can opt to protect files manually, so Sensitive Data Shield is still a feature worth having, but it's not as smart as Avast thinks.
Web Hijack Guard protects browser traffic from DNS hijacking, a nasty exploit where hackers redirect your traffic to malicious websites. We don't have a test to evaluate this, but DNS attacks are a very real danger, and we're glad to see Avast One is working to keep you safe.
Avast's Webcam Protection controls webcam access to reduce the chance of malware accessing your device. By default, this allows trusted apps to access your webcam, and blocks everything else until you give permission. But you can also up the protection level to Strict Mode you're asked for permission whenever anything tries to access the webcam , and there's even an option to disable your webcam entirely. It's a simple system, with well-chosen default settings, and worked perfectly for us.
Avast One spotted our custom webcam hijacker when it tried to grab an image, asked us if it had permission, and when we said no, prevented it accessing our hardware. Performance Boost lists apps running in the software and can selectively optimize them. This effectively freezes a process, preventing it using any system resources.
Avast restores the process when you open the app again and it should work as normal. It's a clever idea and can work well. The problem is figuring out where to use it. The point of 'optimizing' an app is you stopping it running any background tasks, but are you really sure it's not doing something important? Syncing files? Checking for updates? Monitoring your system so it can raise notifications? Avast One gave us clues for processes it recognized, but there weren't many, and it listed many processes which should really be left alone the backup tool Backblaze, for instance.
Driver Updater scans your system for missing driver updates, and can download and install any patches in a couple of clicks. It's easy to use, but also risky. Avast One recommended we update multiple Intel chipset drivers, for instance - a single mistake with any of these could break our PC to the point that it wouldn't boot, maybe even in Safe Mode. Unless your PC is seriously unstable, you're better off leaving the drivers alone. Avast One does better with its final maintenance tool, Disk Cleaner.
As you'll guess from the name, this scans your system for surplus and leftover files, potentially freeing up a significant amount of drive space.
Disk Cleaner did a reasonable job on our test system, finding 8. Avast One's maintenance tools aren't bad, and may help speed up your system. They can't match Avira's System Speedup for features or power, though, and you'll need some knowledge and expertise to get the most out of them. Overall, there are a lot of good antivirus platforms out there, but Avast One is clearly one of the leaders. It's not simply that there are so many useful protection tools in place, but also that these tools are powerful and do exactly what they need to do.
While there are competitors who can beat Avast One in individual areas, what Avast One really succeeds in doing is bundling a strong set of individual tools into a single suite where everything can work well together.
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