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You get standard anti-virus and anti-malware protection, along with browser tools such as anti-phishing and, most importantly, content control. Marketing itself as ‘business-grade security’, Sophos Home does a little more than most free anti-virus software, and actually seems better suited to families. Less impressive is the slight negative effect Avast has on software launch times. It scores well on AV-TEST’s widespread malware benchmark and continues a clean sweep against zero-day attacks. There’s a password manager, too, which is an undeniably good addition to your security portfolio. The latest edition of Avast Free Antivirus adds an automatic gaming mode to mute pop-ups and reduce system load when you’re firing up a processor- hungry game, and the interface has been given an overhaul. Obviously, though, Avast now has a lot more data to work with, having expanded its effective userbase to 400 million users.įollowing its takeover of AVG, Avast now benefits from a much larger user base.

The newly combined company says the two free anti-virus products will remain separate, although there’s a joint AV package on the way soon. While Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition isn’t exactly popup-free – it can be quite annoying, in fact – it’s clean, clever, and efficient enough to take our top spot this time around.Īvast and AVG haven’t yet fully merged, despite the former formally acquiring the latter in mid-2016. The free version’s insistence on running in autopilot mode is aīitdefender Antivirus Free is the best free security software you can get today.ĭouble-edged sword, making the process of virus management easy while also taking it out of your hands while we’re inclined to trust it, there have been cases in the past of automatic systems going slightly rogue, such as the incident a few years back when Panda Antivirus identified itself as a virus and locked up a large number of Windows systems. AV-TEST’s December testing round did pick out a few flaws in its handling of zero-day threats, however.