There are few mainstream antivirus suites that are as expensive as Avast Premier. On the other hand, you do get a solid suite for Avast's price, with a good number of extra tools and utilities. Note: This review is part of our. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them. But for 2019, Avast Premier can flag phishing sites without a browser extension. Typically, security suites install a browser extension in your default browser and flag suspicious sites that way. With Avast Premier, when a phishing site is detected the suite throws up a medium-sized alert window in the center of the screen. Moving on to the new gaming mode, now known as Do Not Disturb, this feature is designed to stop alerts from Avast and other programs when you are running a program in fullscreen. This can be anything from a video game to a movie or a presentation. This list still requires that the listed apps are in fullscreen. If you need a quick do not disturb mode without a fullscreen app, right-click on the Avast symbol in the system tray and select Silent Mode. The suite uses shades of blue and gray as the primary colors with purple used to help menu items stand out. On the left rail there are four options: Status, Protection, Privacy, and Performance. Note that SecureLine requires an extra subscription cost for Avast Premier users. You can set it to three different settings: Smart, Strict, and No Mercy. The first option allows trusted avast premier 2019 full to use the webcam and everything else has to ask. Strict requires an app to ask your permission no matter what, and No Mercy locks the webcam down completely. Finally, down in the Performance section, the options have been bumped up from two to four. The Cleanup Premium feature is still here that removes all your junk files automatically—again for an extra cost. Driver Updater requires an added installation and opens in a separate window. During those tests, the protection against zero-day and web and email threats was 99. In its for September 2018, Avast Free had a 100 percent block rate with no false positives, a fantastic score based on 197 test cases. For the larger using nearly 12,000 test cases, Avast Free had a 99 percent offline and online detection rate, a 100 percent online protection rate, and five false alarms. With Avast Premier running and after a full system scan that number went up to 2,459. With Avast Premier running, and avast premier 2019 full a full system scan, that time went up to one hour and avast premier 2019 full minutes. Conclusion Avast Premier 2019 is a solid security suite with some good extra features such as the webcam blocker and the improved Do Not Disturb mode. Still, the testing houses give Avast high marks and overall the company has a great reputation as a strong security product. The bigger issue, then, is that price. So many other suites cover more devices for less. Ian is an independent writer based in Israel who has never met a tech subject he didn't like.
