Avast One Essential becomes more useful if you’re using an outdated operating system.Īvast One Essential is partly funded by advertising and partner promotion. That said, the performance difference isn’t big enough to make an upgrade essential if you’re using Windows 11. It did see a few false positives, suggesting it may be a little too militant, but it’s still great to see a third-party antivirus post even more impressive performance results than Microsoft Defender Antivirus, which is built into Windows 11 by default. Confirm it, Ransomware Shield adds the app to your Exceptions list itself and there's nothing else to do.Ĭontrolled Folders could be better, then, but it did its core job, keeping us safe from a threat that the antivirus engine missed.Avast One Essential has ascended to the top of the list as the very best free antivirus of 2023, and that’s for one key reason: it prevented 100% of malware in the latest string of tests.
Controlled Folders simply blocks everything it doesn't recognize, and previously we've found some legitimate programs refused to run until we manually added them to an Exceptions list.Īvast's Ransomware Shield is smarter, more like a firewall when it detects an unauthorized access to a folder, it alerts you, but also asks if the process is legitimate. This time, Defender displayed an alert when our ransomware tried to access the folder, and it wasn't able to encrypt any documents. We turned Controlled Folders on, added our test folder to the list, and ran the ransomware simulator again.
Fortunately, Defender has a second layer of protection in its Controlled Folders feature (Security Center > Virus & Threat Protection > Manage Ransomware Protection.) Turn this on and it automatically blocks unauthorized apps from accessing key document folders (Documents, Pictures, Videos, Music, more) and you can easily add more.
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