This post comes from my original old blog, written between 2015 and 2019. It is kept here verbatim as an archive — the formatting did not always survive the move, and I no longer agree with all of it.

§Is Avast Antivirus a Scam?

July 30, 2015

FOUND A CRACK EXE SETUP AND I GOT PREMIUM UNTIL 2077 WOAHHHH nice!

I was looking at some blogger post and found a post that said:

“Avast Premier 2015 valid License file (keys) free to download.”

I had my doubts, and when I saw all these comments, I wanted to try it. It was easily cracked, but I downloaded the original setup installation file from the main company website.

Avast Premier 2015 had some pretty good features. It had antivirus and anti-malware protection, Home Network Security to scan your router and network for security problems, SafeZone for safer banking and shopping, a firewall, HTTPS scanning, Software Updater, data shredding, and protection against DNS hijacking. It also had a sandbox for running suspicious programs in an isolated environment.

If it’s this easy to crack, is it really a safe antivirus?