It’s been a long wait, but version 6 of avast! has finally been released. This antivirus program is best known for the hefty set of security features it makes available to the user absolutely free of charge. This edition makes no exception and pushes protection a step further, adding technologies mainly available in paid products.

Installing the application does not take too long and the screens you have to go through are typical for this sort of program. You’ll have to choose your configuration (and witness the large list of protection layers) between typical and minimal, or you can customize it to your needs. We noticed that between the first two setups there was absolutely no difference and the same modules were offered. Even their sizes were reported the same in the configuration screen.

The next step offers to install Google Chrome on the system, if the web browser has not been detected. Otherwise it’ll skip to the next stage of the installation procedure and create a restore point before putting all the files on the computer.

All respectable antivirus products nowadays perform a quick scan as soon as possible after the installation process, and avast! makes no exception. In our case we saw no time estimation for completing the job or a proper bar recording the progress. However, this action is carried out pretty fast.

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