It informs you the site was blocked for potential phishing and then advises you to scan your PC, as pictured here.Īvast’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. With Avast Premier, when a phishing site is detected the suite throws up a medium-sized alert window in the center of the screen. Typically, security suites install a browser extension in your default browser and flag suspicious sites that way. But for 2019, Avast Premier can flag phishing sites without a browser extension.
Avast Premier 2019’s anti-phishing alert window.Īnti-phishing technology is a mainstay in Avast’s security suites, as it is in most security suites these days.
