

On a similar theme, you also get Avast’s Wi-Fi inspector, which scans your home network for devices using insecure passwords, outdated firmware and so forth. Just bear in mind that there’s no guarantee that it will recognise every last app on your system – consider its recommendations a handy starting point rather than a complete solution to the problem of outdated apps.

The Software Updater scans installed applications and flags up any that can be updated to a newer release, which may include important security enhancements the “automatic updates” option turns out to be a dummy, which once again invites you to upgrade to the paid-for suite, but it’s no great hardship to run the scan manually every so often. A few useful system maintenance tools are included too.
