All-around mobile security platform
Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus is an Android security app that consolidates all mobile cybersecurity functions in one place. From protecting your online privacy to keeping all your passwords, this solution from Avast has everything you need. Built using the industry-trusted Avast Antivirus Engine, it ensures that your device has the latest virus databases, VPN server accesses, and anti-phishing countermeasures—plus improved accessibility features for impaired users.
Aside from its full suite of cybersecurity capabilities, Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus is designed to protect your device without interfering with your user experience. It lets you configure notifications and power plans to suit your needs.
What is Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus?
Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus is a cybersecurity tool whose basic defenses are available to everyone for free, with advanced security capabilities available with a monthly subscription.
As soon as you install the app, you immediately gain access to the following features:
- Antivirus Engine: Avast’s proprietary antivirus engine is at the heart of the platform, connecting you with its real-time virus database and analyzing potential threats in a sandbox environment.
- Hack Check: This added feature lets you check whether your online credentials have been compromised and whether a password change is required.
- Photo Vault: Keep your private photos in a secure and encrypted location within your device, requiring a PIN code to access.
- File Scanner: Check downloads and received files for malware with this free Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus feature.
- Junk Cleaner: Inactive files and other forms of bloatware can be removed with a few clicks, clearing your device’s memory and storage for future use.
- Web Shield: This feature proactively scans the data you access as you browse the Internet, preventing malicious strings of code from getting into your device.
- Wi-Fi Security: Ensure that even when you share a wireless network with other devices, no one accesses your device without your knowledge.
- App Insights: Monitors your app usage data, including storage and data consumption information. You can also set data limits for your apps through this feature.
- Virus Cleaner: Avast’s flagship virus scanning and removal tool, designed to clean your system and help prevent it from getting infected again.
Additionally, the app uses the Accessibility Service API to help protect visually impaired and other challenged users from phishing attacks. You can also change what data you share when you browse through the Privacy Permissions.
Similarly, you can limit the app’s power consumption through its Power Save settings. Even on default, many critical processes will run behind the scenes even when you turn on the do-not-disturb function. Features that will run in the background are the wireless network inspector, a webcam shield, a built-in firewall, and a cloud-based file scanner.
Advanced security for stricter requirements
Although Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus already offers a great deal of security features for free, it still has a couple of advanced cybersecurity services available through the Avast Mobile Ultimate subscription plan. Here are the premium features for more specialized applications:
- Scam Protection: This next-level protection keeps you safe from phishing sites by scanning the links in the messages you receive, whether via SMS or any messaging apps.
- App Lock: Protect your privacy with any app by adding another layer of security that can be unlocked with either a PIN code, a biometric key, or a pattern.
- Remove Ads: Prevent ads from appearing as you use Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus.
- Avast Direct Support: Contact the Avast support team and receive quick responses.
- Email Guardian: Include your emails in the Avast environment, with real-time scanning and reporting procedures.
Avast Ultimate also includes four premium solutions you can deploy on a single device, or across different platforms—from your Android devices to your PC. It includes the Avast SecureLine VPN for masking your online presence with a virtual IP address and the Avast AntiTrack that blocks online trackers from collecting, storing, and sharing your online data.
The only mobile protection you need
With more services being made available to mobile devices, make sure you can navigate them all without cybersecurity risks with Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus. Most of the base services are available for free and already cover your online and offline activities. Even better, Avast Mobile Ultimate gives you access to advanced protection features that keep you free from phishing sites and malware. With its improved accessibility and customizable settings, you can take charge of all your data in a single solution.
