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I have been using free Avast Antivirus for protection against viruses, for almost 3 years. But I am planning to buy a premium subscription, given it appears to be having cool features now, such as a driver updater, webcam protection etc.
What I am concerned with, is the driver updater feature. Before I got to know about the antivirus driver updater feature, I always went to Bing to search for the latest version of my drivers that I find to be outdated. In almost all of my search attempts, I have been greeted with the warning to never update drivers from a third-party source and always do it from your manufacturer. However, getting to know about Avast's driver updater feature, I think this may be an exception to this warning, as the software is an antivirus, not some random third-party source. It is also probably reliable as I tried checking out the same drivers on Device Manager and it isn't updating those drivers and claims the driver is on the latest version.
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Here are my PC specifications:
Product name: HP Laptop 15s-ey1xxx
Processor name: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics
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Is it safe? Maybe. Maybe some of the time.
The safest place to update a driver is the web site of the manufacturer of the hardware the driver is for, and I don't recommend doing it anywhere else.
Is that always perfectly safe? No. Updating a driver isn't perfectly safe anywhere, but that's the safest place.
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I won't recommend you to update it through any third party software.
I personally update my drivers with intel support assistant you should find out something for your amd components
check this
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Hi AnonymousFYIFYI_107
I am Dave, I will help you with this.
No, it is not safe to use a 3rd party utility to update your drivers, Avast make a good security site, but please do not use the driver updater in Avast.
Using a 3rd party driver updater is the main cause of blue screens on peoples PC's, because those utilities are renowned for installing incompatible drivers on your PC.
The only place to get device drivers from is the Support page for your PC on the manufacturers website, or form Windows updates.
