Avast SecureLine VPN
Help secure your internet connection, hide your IP address, and access the content you love.
About Avast SecureLine VPN
Avast SecureLine VPN is the consumer VPN arm of Avast, a long-established antivirus brand, now part of the Gen Digital family. It earns a Scout Score of 65, with privacy pulled down to 58 — and the documents explain why. Feature-wise it is functional rather than remarkable: a kill switch is present, split tunneling exists but only on Android, and P2P/torrenting is confined to 8 dedicated locations rather than the full network.
The jurisdiction is the Czech Republic, which we classify as Tier 2. The Czech Republic sits outside the 5/9/14 Eyes alliances, which is a point in its favor, but jurisdiction alone does not carry a service — logging behavior does. And here the record is unfavorable: Avast SecureLine is not a strict no-logs provider. Its own policy states it retains connection logs — connect/disconnect timestamps, session duration and bandwidth — for up to 35 days. There is no independent no-logs audit to attribute, so the claim of privacy rests on the company's word alone.
The larger trust concern is documented and involves the parent operator. In 2024, Avast paid a $16.5M FTC settlement over selling browsing data through its Jumpshot subsidiary between 2014 and 2020. That episode concerned Avast's antivirus software and browser extensions, not SecureLine VPN, so it should not be misrepresented as a VPN breach — but it is a legitimate, on-the-record operator trust issue that anyone weighing this provider should factor in.
On pricing, the verified official plans are: a 2-year plan at $3.99/mo intro (billed $95.76), a 3-year plan at $3.99/mo intro (billed $143.64), and a 1-year plan at $4.99/mo intro (billed $59.88). All three renew at $8.33/mo, so the introductory rate is a first-term discount, not the ongoing cost. A 30-day money-back window applies.
Who it fits: existing Avast users wanting a bundled, easy VPN for casual use who accept a 35-day connection-log policy. Who should skip it: anyone who requires a strict, independently audited no-logs stance or is uneasy about the operator's data-selling history.
We do not run a lab, so we publish no speed benchmarks here; for how these dimensions are weighted, see our score methodology.
Profile by Tomas, Scout VPN Team — built from documented evidence.
Pros
- Kill switch included
Cons
- No port forwarding
- No phone support