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avast! has again proven its speed and accuracy in the latest Virus Bulletin test, taking home another VB100 award. avast! Professional Edition (version 4.8) had the fastest scanning speed of all the top 10 scoring products in Virus Bulletin's detection test.

Avast topped the latest AV Comparatives analysis of antivirus programs with a mix of speed and accuracy. Avast had the fastest scan time of the 16 tested programs. In addition to speed, Avast was the only program out of the 16 tested to get a top five finish for both malware detection and low numbers of false positives. Read more...

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avast! antivirus software has earned the “Compatible with Windows 7” logo.avast! version 4.8 successfully completed Microsoft Corp.s’ testing regime to prove it can be readily installed and run reliably on Windows 7. Read more...

avast! Professional Edition has proven its quality once again and received another VB100 award from the independent testing authority Virus Bulletin. This is the latest of many such awards for avast, in a test where other major antivirus providers failed to achieve the required standard. Read more...

If you want to find out more about avast!/ALWIL Software and the people behind the scenes who are working so hard to keep your computer safe, check out the new avast! blog at blog.avast.com.

ALWIL Software, the developers of avast!—probably the world’s most popular antivirus product—today announced that Vince Steckler has joined the company as CEO. Previously, Vince served as senior vice-president of consumer sales at Symantec, the world’s largest producer of security software.

ALWIL Software is pleased to announce that Walling Data, North America's top value-added distributor of online security products, is now also an authorized distributor of avast! products in North America.

avast! has been awarded the "Advanced" rating in the latest round of testing by AV-Comparatives and voted "Best Bet" by PCWorld magazine.

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

The independent testing body AV-Test has released the results of a major comparative test of antivirus products, covering detection rates for various types of malware. In the tests, avast! antivirus detected over 99% of all malware types (and more than 98% of adware and spyware) and has therefore  received a "++" rating for its detection rates in on-demand scanning. The full test results can be found here.

As of today, 10th Dec 2008, our Virus Lab detected a spying trojan (Win32:Trojan-gen) in the BS.Player installation file, placed on their European download server. This detection is already included in the current VPS of avast! antivirus. After the installation of BS.Player, the trojan is located in hidden file "Windows\System32\installdata358.tmp.exe". For more information, please visit our avast! forum or read the official news on BS.Player website.

Dear customers, you may have noticed a change in our online store provider. ALWIL Software has switched their online store provider from Share*It to element 5. element 5 is an integrated part of Digital River's e-commerce solution. This switch has been undertaken as part of ALWIL Software's ongoing commitment to improving the customers' shopping experience with avast!.

The price of the avast! BART CD (Bootable Antivirus & Recovery Tool) has been reduced by 50% to better meet the needs of our business customers. It can be purchased through either our online store or from authorized avast! Resellers worldwide. The current prices include the 50% price reduction.

Additional discounts apply to purchases of multiple licenses - see our pricelist.

avast! 4.8 antivirus is realeased, in both Home Edition and Professional Edition with new features. avast! antivirus 4.8 now has anti-spyware, anti-rootkit and strong self-protection, offering the best value anti-malware product you can buy. Download to try avast! 4.8 Professional Edition for 60 days, or purchase it here. Read more in the full press release.

avast! celebrates the fifty millionth registered user of the multi-award winning avast! Antivirus. Read more in the full press release here.

Prague - 11th May 2007: For Immediate Release: ALWIL Software a.s. is extremely proud to announce another milestone in the number of avast®! antivirus Home Edition registrations has been reached with the registration, today, of the 30 millionth (30,000,000) user. More in press release.

avast! has been selected as best local software product!

avast! is now ICSA Certified Product

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avast! antivirus has been selected as one of this years finalists in the Secure Computing 2006 Awards, beating off stiff competition and leading the race in the last 4 contenders for the much coveted industry award.