The first option allows trusted apps to use the webcam and everything else has to ask. You can set it to three different settings: Smart, Strict, and No Mercy. There’s also now a Webcam Shield in this section that blocks the webcam from use by shady applications. Note that SecureLine requires an extra subscription cost for Avast Premier users.

Moving on to Privacy in the left-hand rail, you’ve got the Data Shredder, a built-in password manager, and SecureLine VPN, as usual. The Virus Chest, meanwhile, is Avast Premier’s version of the quarantine section. Two new additions to this section are Core Shields, which lets you turn on and off specific aspects of Avast’s protection including file protection, behavioral analysis, protection from web threats, and mail scanning. It’s great to see Avast acknowledge that game mode can be used for more than just gaming, as some other suites do.Īvast Premier 2019’s Core Shields settings. This can be anything from a video game to a movie or a presentation. Moving on to the new gaming mode, now known as Do Not Disturb, this feature is designed to stop alerts from Avast and other programs when you are running a program in fullscreen.

Still, the fact that Avast didn’t block me from logging into a fake cryptocurrency site is concerning since phishing is an easy way that unsuspecting users can lose their digital coins. To be fair, Chrome also didn’t throw up an alert for that site, and Chrome often catches known phishing sites. During my time trying out the new feature, it blocked a OneDrive phishing site almost right away, but then Avira didn’t let out a peep when I landed on the login page for a phishing site posing as, a popular trading and Bitcoin wallet service. I didn’t run a formal test of Avast’s phishing capabilities but I did visit Comodo’s to find some current phishing sites so I could see the new feature in action. Avast’s approach analyzes various components of a site to detect nefarious behavior including a site’s URL, domain meta information, and “the visual aspects of sites.” Avast says this new approach allows it to “recognize new phishing sites in seconds,” but I’m not so sure about that.

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