avast! Home Edition 25 millionth user registration
Prague - 9th February 2007: For Immediate Release: ALWIL Software a.s. is extremely proud to announce another milestone in the number of avast®! antivirus Home Edition™ registrations, which reached 25 million (25,000,000) today.
The very first avast®! antivirus Home Edition™ user registered on the 26th January 2002, and the 20 millionth user registered on the 30th October 2006.
Eduard Kucera, Chairman and CEO of ALWIL Software a.s., comments: "Since the first version of avast®! antivirus, we have grown our business to develop the multi-award winning avast®! antivirus family of products that covers every major platform on every major vulnerable device type.
"What we really do is focus on our customer’s needs, which is to provide an anti-malware solution that just works. This allows our customers to get on with their business or daily lives, while we protect their valuable, and often irreplaceable, data and programs."
Mr. Kucera continues, "We are very proud that our customers have found our technology products meet their needs, so much so that they voted us best antivirus and best antimalware product in 2006 in the prestigious SC Awards. However, as good as receiving awards is, I think the real vote of confidence is in the number of people downloading and registering to use our products. For our Home Edition™ product, we have twenty five million users who, day-in and day-out give us the trust and privilege of protecting their systems. That, I feel, is the biggest vote of confidence in our products and technology."
avast®! antivirus Home Edition™ is available free of charge for non-commercial home use (both conditions being a part of the end user license agreement) and can be downloaded from the avast.com website or certain selected download servers such as download.com.
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About ALWIL Software - Since 1988 ALWIL Software has produced antivirus products that have been developed into the multi-award winning avast®! antivirus product line. Headquartered in Prague, in the Czech Republic, ALWIL Software develops and markets avast®! antivirus products that cover everything from U3 devices, desktops, PDA and server protection on multiple platforms. Further details about the company and its products can be found on their corporate website http://www.avast.com
About avast®! antivirus products – avast®! is the multi-award winning antivirus product line from ALWIL Software, which is ICSA Labs certified and regularly receives the Virus Bulletin 100% award, for detection of 100% of in-the-wild viruses, and SC Awards 2006 for best antivirus in both the US and European categories as well as Best anti-malware solution category in Europe. avast®! is specifically engineered to need low system requirements and automatically and incrementally updates both the program and virus definitions, keeping bandwidth usage to a minimum while always being up-to-date.
