Avast Antivirus – Scan & Remove Virus, Cleaner on Windows Pc

Protect against viruses & other types of malware with Avast Mobile Security, the world’s most trusted free antivirus app for Android.

Protect your privacy by receiving alerts when spyware or adware-infected apps are downloaded onto your device. Secure your device against phishing attacks from emails and infected websites. Turn on the VPN to keep your online browsing private and safe, as well as to access your favorite paid streaming services when traveling abroad. Get alerts when your passwords have been compromised by hackers.

With more than 100 million installs, Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus provides much more than just antivirus protection.

Free features:

✔ Antivirus Engine
✔ Anti-Theft
✔ Hack Check
✔ Photo Vault
✔ File scanner
✔ Privacy Permissions
✔ RAM Boost
✔ Junk Cleaner
✔ Web Shield
✔ Wi-Fi Security
✔ App Insights
✔ Virus Cleaner
✔ Wi-Fi Speed Test

Premium features for advanced protection:

■ Camera Trap: Secretly capture photos and audio of the thief if your phone gets stolen.
■ Last Known Location: Check your device's last location before its battery died.
■ App Lock: Keep your sensitive content secure and private by locking any app with a PIN code, pattern, or fingerprint password. Only you’ll be able to access them.
■ Remove Ads: Eliminate ads from your Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus experience.
■ Avast Direct Support: Contact Avast directly from the app to receive quick responses to your inquiries.

Finally, Ultimate users can enjoy our VPN (Virtual Private Network) as well - Hide your online activities from hackers and your ISP by encrypting your connection. You can also change your location to access your favorite paid streaming services from anywhere.


Avast Mobile Security & Antivirus in detail

■ Antivirus Engine: Automatically scan for viruses and other kinds of malware, including spyware, Trojans, and more. Web, file, and app scanning provides complete mobile protection.
■ App Insights: Discover how much time you spend using each app on your device and take back control of your phone-life balance.
■ Junk Cleaner: Instantly clean out unnecessary data, junk files, system caches, gallery thumbnails, installation files, and residual files to give you more space.
■ Photo Vault: Secure your photos with a PIN code, pattern, or fingerprint password. After moving photos to the Vault, they are fully encrypted and only accessible to you.
■ Web Shield: Scan and block malware-infected links, as well as Trojans, adware, and spyware (for privacy and safe web browsing, e.g. Chrome).
■ Wi-Fi Security: Check the security of public Wi-Fi networks, browse safely, and make secure online payments from anywhere.
■ Hack Alerts: See which of your passwords have been leaked with a quick and simple scan, so you can update your login credentials before hackers infiltrate your accounts.

This app uses the Device Administrator permission. This permission allows you to remotely lock and wipe your device from my.avast.com.

This app uses the Accessibility permission to protect visually impaired and other users against phishing attacks and malicious websites.

* Improved My Statistics — Now you can also see the number of private data leaks we've resolved for you in the past 30 days
* Don't forget Hack Alerts — In our last release, we introduced this free feature to warn you if any passwords linked to your email address were leaked
* Updated privacy policies — We've clarified the categories of data we collect in our General Privacy Policy and related privacy policies

July 16, 2021

* Improved My Statistics — Now you can also see the number of private data leaks we've resolved for you in the past 30 days
* General maintenance — Your app stability and performance get better and better with each new release
* Don't forget Hack Alerts — In our last release, we introduced this free feature to warn you if any passwords linked to your email address were leaked

June 18, 2021

Introducing Hack Alerts — This free feature will warn you if any passwords linked to your email address were compromised in a hack or a leak. (Simply turn it on within the app)
Junk Clean is working again — We've fixed a bug that sometimes caused Junk Clean to freeze up. (Thanks for reporting this, everyone. If you find any other bugs, please report them via Settings > Help & Feedback.)
Other improvements — Just the usual tweaks to keep your antivirus going strong.

May 31, 2021

Introducing Hack Alerts — This free feature will warn you if any passwords linked to your email address were compromised in a hack or a leak. (Simply turn it on within the app)
Junk Clean is working again — We've fixed a bug that sometimes caused Junk Clean to freeze up. (Thanks for reporting this, everyone. If you find any other bugs, please report them via Settings > Help & Feedback.)
Other improvements — Just the usual tweaks to keep your antivirus going strong.

May 26, 2021

Introducing Hack Alerts — This free feature will warn you if any passwords linked to your email address were compromised in a hack or a leak. (Simply turn it on within the app)
Junk Clean is working again — We've fixed a bug that sometimes caused Junk Clean to freeze up. (Thanks for reporting this, everyone. If you find any other bugs, please report them via Settings > Help & Feedback.)
Other improvements — Just the usual tweaks to keep your antivirus going strong.

May 03, 2021

Minor bug fixes and accessibility improvements to keep your antivirus going strong.
Don't forget: You can try out new features before anyone else by going to Settings > About > Join our beta program.

April 14, 2021

Minor bug fixes and accessibility improvements to keep your antivirus going strong.
Don't forget: You can try out new features before anyone else by going to Settings > About > Join our beta program.

March 31, 2021

✓ Better accessibility — We now work better with Android's accessibility features
✓ App Lock fix — Apps protected by App Lock will no longer unlock themselves
✓ Wi-Fi Scan fix — We've fixed a few small UI issues with the Wi-Fi Scan screen
✓ Android 11 fixes — We now play nicer with devices running Android 11

February 18, 2021

✓ Bug stomping — Just the usual bug fixes that keep your antivirus going strong
✓ Beta program — Try out new features before anyone else by going to Settings > About > Join our beta program

February 02, 2021

✓ Bug stomping — Just the usual bug fixes that keep your antivirus going strong
✓ Beta program — Try out new features before anyone else by going to Settings > About > Join our beta program

January 28, 2021

✓ Bug stomping — Just the usual bug fixes that keep your antivirus going strong
✓ Beta program — Try out new features before anyone else by going to Settings > About > Join our beta program

January 22, 2021

✓ Bug stomping — Just the usual bug fixes that keep your antivirus going strong
✓ Beta program — Try out new features before anyone else by going to Settings > About > Join our beta program

January 04, 2021

✓ Safer Wi-Fi connections — We can now detect even more Wi-Fi threats, like man-in-the-middle attacks, SSL stripping, HTTP injections, and other nasties
✓ New My statistics section — See how we've been protecting you, from the total threats we've caught to the total apps and files we've scanned and more
✓ Scan system apps — Our scans now include system apps so we'll warn you if anything malicious was pre-installed on your phone — and tell you how to deactivate it

December 03, 2020

✓ Safer Wi-Fi connections — We can now detect even more Wi-Fi threats, like man-in-the-middle attacks, SSL stripping, HTTP injections, and other nasties
✓ New My statistics section — See how we've been protecting you, from the total threats we've caught to the total apps and files we've scanned and more
✓ Scan system apps — Our scans now include system apps so we'll warn you if anything malicious was pre-installed on your phone — and tell you how to deactivate it

November 30, 2020

New in this update:
* Stalkerware detection — Think someone is spying on you? We’ll now warn you if any apps are secretly tracking your activities and/or location
* Wi-Fi Network alerts — When you connect to a new Wi-Fi network, we’ll offer to scan it for potential threats
* Improved Activity Log — Junk Cleaner and RAM Booster actions are now also logged so you can see when they happened

November 10, 2020

New in this update:
* Stalkerware detection — Think someone is spying on you? We’ll now warn you if any apps are secretly tracking your activities and/or location
* Wi-Fi Network alerts — When you connect to a new Wi-Fi network, we’ll offer to scan it for potential threats
* Improved Activity Log — Junk Cleaner and RAM Booster actions are now also logged so you can see when they happened

November 03, 2020

New in this update:
* Stalkerware detection — Think someone is spying on you? We’ll now warn you if any apps are secretly tracking your activities and/or location
* Wi-Fi Network alerts — When you connect to a new Wi-Fi network, we’ll offer to scan it for potential threats
* Improved Activity Log — Junk Cleaner and RAM Booster actions are now also logged so you can see when they happened

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows an application to collect battery statistics
Allows an application to clear the caches of all installed applications on the device.
Allows an application to find out the space used by any package.
This constant was deprecated in API level 21. No longer enforced.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to request deleting packages.
Allows an app to use fingerprint hardware.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to collect component usage statistics
Declaring the permission implies intention to use the API and the user of the device can grant permission through the Settings application.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Permission an application must hold in order to use ACTION_REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to call killBackgroundProcesses(String].
Allows applications to disable the keyguard if it is not secure.
Allows an application to expand or collapse the status bar.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.