The Social Media Monitoring feature in Avast Secure Identity monitors your accounts on popular social media platforms listed below and notifies you of suspicious activity, such as changes to your account settings or risky links¹. Additionally, this feature can also monitor your child's accounts and notify you of potential cyberbullying, dangerous TikTok challenges, explicit content, or hate speech².

Benefits of Social Media Monitoring

• Account takeover notifications: Your account is monitored for setting changes, strange logins, and suspicious posts to help you avoid account takeover.
• Protection against scams or phishing: Your account is scanned for scams or malware links in your account feed, which can be used to steal or extort your data or money.
• Protection against inappropriate content: Your account feed, including your child's, is scanned for posts or comments about cyberbullying, hate speech, explicit content, drugs, or violence².

Types of monitoring between platforms

Social Media Monitoring monitors your accounts on the following platforms and the type of monitoring differs between platforms:

To set up your identity monitoring:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Linkedln
• Snapchat
• TikTok
• YouTube
• X (previously Twitter)

Adding a social media account for monitoring

When you add a social media account for monitoring, Avast performs a historical review of your account for posts or comments made in the past year or up to 200 pieces of content, whichever comes first.

1. Sign in to your Avast Account.
2. Under Monitored Info tab, scroll down to Social Media Accounts section.
3. If you haven't added any account for monitoring, click Get Started, and then click Add next to the social media account that you want to link.
4. Read and understand the on-screen information.
5. Click Link and login into your social media account.

1. Read the on-screen information and complete the linking of your account.
2. Confirm that your social media account is connected monitored by signing in to your account.