Does Avast run on Linux?

Avast Free Antivirus is offered for Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone. The only Linux thing Avast makes is Antivirus for Business, which its own documentation says is for business products only and points consumers elsewhere. There is no home Linux version to buy or download.

Linux desktops go without antivirus for practical reasons. Nearly all the malware a home user runs into is written for Windows and cannot run on Linux at all. Software comes from your system's app store instead of download sites, which shuts down the most common way something nasty gets onto a machine, and everything on the computer updates through that one place rather than through a dozen separate updaters.

That protects the computer, not you. Phishing emails, fake login pages and reused passwords work just as well on Linux as they do on Windows, because they trick the person rather than the machine. A password manager, and stopping to check a web address before you type a password into it, do more than any scanner.

If you have an Avast subscription, check what it covers before you cancel. Most of these bundles include a VPN and a password manager as well, and those parts may have Linux or browser versions that keep working. ClamAV is worth installing only if you pass files on to people who are still using Windows.