We recommend scheduling a full system scan at least once a week. Smart Scan also let us create automated scan schedules, with the shortest duration between scans set to weekly and the longest set to monthly. For instance, it showed us which programs had permission to run automatically at start-up, so we could see if there was anything we could remove to improve start-up times. Besides detecting malware, TotalAV scanned key areas for us to check out if we wanted to improve our machine’s performance. TotalAV’s Smart Scan, though, is a little more advanced than the normal scans most antivirus software perform. Scanning for malware is one crucial part of how antivirus software works. It can either quarantine the infected file so you can manually check and remove it at a later time or delete the infected file right away. For example, you can tell TotalAV what to do when it detects malware. You can modify how the real-time protection behaves in the settings. And when it does find something suspicious, a notice like the one below pops up. You don’t need to run a scan manually TotalAV does the scans automatically and in the background. To offer that kind of protection, TotalAV scans files being transferred to and from your computer, the folders you open, and processes your machine executes. Check out the articles linked in this section to learn more about each type of malware and how to protect your devices from them. Resource Guide: What is a Trojan? What is spyware? What is adware? What is a computer worm? These are all types of malware. We bit the bullet and went with the most comprehensive plan: Total Security.
If you want to use the other features, you’ll need to upgrade to a paid subscription, so that’s what we did. It lets you scan for malware manually, but that’s all that it can do. After that, we’d need to upgrade to a paid subscription to continue using it.įurther exploring the app confirmed our suspicion that the free version is pretty barebones. When we tried to clear our device’s tracking cookies, for example, TotalAV notified us that we only had 48 hours to try the feature for free. Soon after, though, we found out that not all the listed features are included in the free version. The software even performed a Smart Scan as soon as we launched it the first time, which checked for: Impressively, the app listed a comprehensive set of features, ranging from real-time malware protection to miscellaneous device protections such as password management and performance booster. We’re not ones to turn down free protection, so we downloaded the software and tried it out. One of the first things that caught our eye was TotalAV’s promise of a free-to-download, free-to-use antivirus software. Like we always do before testing antivirus software, we researched TotalAV’s products and offerings.
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