Avast Small Office Protection is a powerful, business-grade security solution designed for small businesses. It safeguards up to 10 devices — including PCs, Macs, and servers — from malware, ransomware, phishing attacks, and network threats in real time.
With 24/7 support, automatic updates, and enterprise-grade protection, this solution ensures your office stays secure without requiring a dedicated IT team. Simple to install and manage, it's perfect for small businesses that need big protection.
Pros:
- Comprehensive coverage: Protects PCs, Macs, and servers.
- 24/7 support: Round-the-clock technical help.
- Easy deployment: Simple setup without IT expertise.
- Low impact: Runs smoothly without slowing devices.
Cons:
- Limited device count: Only supports up to 10 devices per license.
- No mobile protection: Not available for Android/iOS in this version.
- Advanced features locked: Some controls require premium add-ons.
System Requirements:
| Platform | Minimum Requirements |
|---|---|
| Windows | Windows 7 SP1 or later, 1 GB RAM, 2 GB free disk space |
| Mac | macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) or later, 2 GB RAM, 500 MB disk space |
| Server | Windows Server 2008 R2 or later, 2 GB RAM |
| Internet | Required for activation and updates |
| Display | Minimum 1024x768 resolution |
| Other | Administrator rights for installation |
Reliable protection for your small office
Comprehensive online cybersecurity for small offices that want protection against phishing, ransomware, and advanced cyberattacks for all devices.
Protect your devices against malware infection
Get more peace of mind with Avast next-gen antivirus that’s rich with features that can be set and forget.
- Protection on every device: Get always-on security to help keep your devices secure from viruses, spyware, phishing, ransomware, and other cyberattacks.
- Don’t lose sleep over ransomware attacks: Rest assured that your business and customer information is safer with Ransomware and Sensitive Data Shields.
- Avoid fake and dangerous websites: Our solution scans websites for security risks on your Windows computers and Mac, so you can browse more safely.
Keep your business and customer data safer
Without data protection, your business faces risk of sensitive data loss or leakage. Having to remediates such incidents is time-demanding and costly. Protect your business and customer data from cybercriminals’ attacks with Avast.
- Native data protection: Our Behavior Shield helps protect against emerging threats and malicious programs. It is designed to prevent stealing passwords and bank account details. Working together with Ransomware Shield, File Shield, and Web Shield, it helps prevent ransomware
- Prevent hackers from accessing your PC and data: Stopping hackers from remotely taking control of your employees’ Windows PCs and Mac prevents them from manipulating your files or locking them out with ransomware. Our firewall, Remote Access Shield and network inspection tools are also designed to block intrusions and to prevent sensitive data from leaving your computers.
Stay more secure online
Safeguard your passwords and sensitive business information when web browsing and banking online.
- Protect your passwords: Safeguard your browser-stored passwords from being modified or stolen.
- Fake Website and Phishing Protection: Real Site supports safer web browsing and banking by helping you avoid fake websites that steal login credentials or credit card information.
If you're a business that handles client data and has servers, then you need more than what our free consumer antivirus offers. Our small business solutions provide server and endpoint protection. Avast Business solutions also offer advanced security, privacy, and productivity features to give your employees total digital privacy, security, and unparalleled productivity. They also come with an online management platform to provide real-time visibility of threats, comprehensive reporting, and remote management capabilities from a single platform.
Avast free consumer antivirus, Avast One, or Premium Security are intended for private, personal, and non-commercial use only. If you would like to use Avast in a business, commercial, non-profit, or government organization, we recommend trying Avast Business solutions.
For more information, please review our Avast End-User License Agreement (EULA).
All our products include our next-generation antivirus for businesses designed to prevent, search for, detect, and remove malware, and other malicious software like worms, trojans, adware, spyware, and more. Using top-quality prevention, detection, blocking capabilities, machine learning, advanced heuristics, advanced anti-exploit, and other Avast proprietary techniques, we protect millions of businesses worldwide.
To protect users, Avast detects and immediately reports any suspicious files or behavior. This state-of-the-art infrastructure and access to an immense amount of security data gathered from hundreds of millions of devices around the globe gives us one of the largest, most advanced threat-detection networks in the world, and lets us provide unrivaled zero-day protection.
Our cutting-edge technology transforms our users into a worldwide network of cooperating sensors. If any one of them encounters malware, Avast uses 6 layers of protection to identify, block, and inform the entire network in a matter of seconds.
The Avast Small Office Protection license includes up to 10 devices, meaning that you'll be able to use it for however many devices you have as long as it does not exceed 10 devices. At Avast, we know the modern workplace has changed. On average, employees use 2.5 devices to perform their jobs. They tend to use their personal laptops, smartphones, and tablets to stay connected from anywhere. To ensure protection for all devices, Avast Small Office Protection provides a multi-device subscription to protect up to 10 devices, regardless of platform.
If you already have an Avast Business product without the Business Hub (our online management platform), you do not need to uninstall your current version. Avast antivirus setup automatically detects these versions and upgrades the existing installation to Avast Small Office Protection.

