avast! Awards

avast! wins CNET Download.com 5 star rating

avast! wins CNET Download.com 5 star rating Prague - 21st January 2007: For Immediate Release : ALWIL Software a.s. is very pleased to announce that CNET Download.com has awarded avast! Home Edition the coveted five star rating. avast!'s award winning line of products is available on multiple platforms, from U3, Linux, Solaris, Mac and PC. avast! Home Edition is available free of charge to non-commercial home users (both conditions being a mandatory part of the End User License Agreement). Commenting on the five star award by download.com, Eduard Kucera, ALWIL Software a.s. Chairman and CEO, said, "We are very pleased to have received the download.com five star award from CNET, and this continues to show us that, as our products mature, we are still listening to customers and trying our very best to get it right. This type of award would suggest that we are meeting customer needs." CNET's download.com is the most popular download server. avast! has had over four million downloads from download.com, and the number continues to grow each day. Users have voted avast! the number one antivirus in multiple jurisdictions.

40 Million avast! users - avast! celebrates with 20% off all avast! products for 20 days

avast! Home Edition 40 millionth registration ALWIL Software a.s. is pleased to announce the registration of the 40 millionth user of its multiple award-winning avast! Home Edition antivirus software. To celebrate, users can purchase ANY avast! product with a 20% discount for the next 20 days by quoting "40 Million" when you purchase any avast product (ends November 10th, 2007)

avast! antivirus rated "Advanced+" by AV Comparatives

avast! antivirus has been awarded the highest "Advanced+" rating following tests carried out by AV-Comparatives.

avast! celebrates 60 million registered users

ALWIL Software a.s. is pleased to announce the registration of the sixty millionth (60,000,000th) user of its multi-award winning avast! Antivirus.

ALWIL Software is changing its name to AVAST Software as of June 1, 2010.

Now it is time for ALWIL Software. With over 100 million registered users of its avast! antivirus applications, the company is changing its name to AVAST Software as of June 1, 2010.

avast! - the only free antivirus program to win “Advanced A+”

avast! is the only free antivirus program to win the highest “Advanced A+” rating in AV-Comparative’s last test of on-demand detection of malicious software.

avast! receives "Advanced" rating by AV-Comparatives

avast! received an "Advanced" rating in a second round of testing with tougher criteria by AV-Comparatives