You can delete, quarantine, repair, or ignore either the threat or all found threats. As soon as the scanner finds a threat it halts, awaiting your choice of action. If you set up a boot scan and walk away, it can take a lot longer than 20 minutes. However, running a boot scan added over 20 minutes more. On my standard clean test system the full scan alone took 21 minutes, well below the current average of 30 minutes. When the boot scan came first, I ran a full scan afterward just to be sure. In every case, avast! asked to run a boot-time scan, either before or after the full scan. I also turned on the option to scan for PUPs (potentially unwanted programs), which was disabled by default. The product offers several different scan types for testing I chose the full system scan.

The setup routine reported a crash on one system, but it recovered and managed to complete the installation without further incident. Bundling fees from Google also help fund avast!'s protection giveaway.įull Scan and Boot-Time Scan I had no trouble installing avast! on my twelve malware-infested test systems. Giving away protection earns a company loyalty and good feeling, but somebody has to pay the bills.īy default, the avast! installer also installs Google Chrome and makes it your default browser. On top of all this, the program's main window includes a time-limited discount offer to purchase the full suite at a discount. The welcome window includes an upgrade button, and after registration you'll get an offer for a 20-day free trial of the full suite. Another offers the Pro antivirus at half-price. One window offers 'base protection' versus 'full protection,' with the latter selected by default. During the installation and configuration process there are several opportunities to try or buy the Pro antivirus or suite. Install and Upsell You definitely won't have to dig into the avast! market to obtain avast!'s commercial products.

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