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News: avast! migrates to new online store 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!. |
avast! BART CD price reduction 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! Mac Edition new version released
ALWIL Software a.s. are pleased to announce the latest release of avast! Mac Edition, containing key new features, such as full incremental updating and better unpacker support, as well as ehancements to existing features to make this version the best yet for protecting your Intel or PowerPC-based Mac.
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avast! 4.8 released
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! 50 millionth user registration avast! celebrates the fifty millionth registered user of the multi-award winning avast! Antivirus. Read more in the full press release here. |
New products from ALWIL Software
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avast! Home Edition 40 millionth registration New York and Prague – October 22, 2007 - For Immediate Release: 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. More in press release. |
![]() CNET Download.com 5 star rating CNET Download.com has awarded avast! Home Edition the coveted five star rating. More information in press release. |
![]() avast! Antivirus and Windows Vista Get antivirus protection for your Windows Vista now. We're pleased to announce that avast! antivirus fully supports Windows Vista. Read more… |
Scheduled for maintenance
We would like to inform you that our systems are scheduled for maintenance this Sunday, from 0:00 to 8:00 AM CEST (GMT+2).
During this time all business-like systems (registrations, sales, etc.)
will be down, or partially non working, so, please don't use them. All
other systems (web, updates, forum) will work without interruption.
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30 Millionth avast! Home Edition User Registered 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. |
![]() SC Awards 2007 (U.S.) Voting in the industry's highly acclaimed SC Awards is now open to qualified business users in the US (European voters may vote from 18th October). More information is here. |
avast! wins two European SC Awards ALWIL Software is proud to announce that it has won the prestigious SC Award for best antivirus (avast!) and was also the winner of the anti-malware category for the European section of the award event. More information in our press release... |
![]() 100% Virus Bulletin award July 3, 2006 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (June 2006, Windows XP) avast! 4 Pro again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award! |
![]() 100% Virus Bulletin award - October 2006 October 3, 2006 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (October 2006, Windows 2000 Server) avast! 4 Server again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award! |
![]() 100% Virus Bulletin award April 24, 2006 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (April 2006, Red Hat Linux 9) avast! again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award! This is fourth VB100% for Linux version in a row!! |
avast! Linux Home Edition Released March 2, 2006 - We're pleased to announce the general availability of avast! Linux Home Edition. Learn more about the product here. |
100% Virus Bulletin award February 20, 2006 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (February 2006, Windows NT 4.0 platform) avast! 4 Pro again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award! |
100% Virus Bulletin award December 19, 2005 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (December 2005, Windows Server 2003 x64 version) avast! 4 Pro again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award! |
SC 2006 Award Finalists!
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avast! Antivirus and Windows x64 Edition All editions of avast! antivirus now fully support the new 64-bit Windows platform. Read more... |
100% Virus Bulletin award October 19, 2005 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (October 2005, Windows 2003 Server) avast! 4 Pro again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award! |
100% Virus Bulletin award April 1, 2005 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (April 2005, Red Hat Linux) avast! again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award! This is third VB100% for Linux version in a row!! |
avast! 4.6 Is Here February 19, 2005 - ALWIL Software is proud to introduce avast! 4.6, a new release of our award winning antivirus system. Find out what's new in this release now! |
100% Virus Bulletin award January 28, 2005 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (February 2005, Windows NT 4) avast! 4 Pro again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award! |
100% Virus Bulletin award May 27, 2005 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (June 2005, Windows XP) avast! 4 Pro again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award! |
ADNM Released December 21, 2004 - ALWIL Software today announces avast! Distributed Network Manager (ADNM), a comprehensive, scalable network antivirus management and monitoring system. |
avast! for Linux/Unix Now Supports FreeBSD December 16, 2004 - a new version of avast! for Linux/Unix Servers with integrated e-mail and file system protection has been released. Now it supports the FreeBSD x86 platform. |
Avast! 4.5 Released November 13, 2004 - ALWIL Software is pleased to announce the general availability of avast! 4.5 Home/Professional, a new powerful and easy-to-use antivirus software solution. |
100% Virus Bulletin award In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (November 2004, Windows Server 2003) avast! 4 Server Edition again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award! |
Note to our customers April 28, 2006 - If you experienced problems with the latest version of avast! antivirus (version 4.7.826, released April 28, 2006), please follow these instructions to rectify the situation. We apologize for the inconvenience. |
avast! BART CD 2.0 Released October 15, 2004 - The final version of avast! BART CD 2.0 has been released for use by our paying customers. |
ADNM RC-1a Released We're pleased to announce the availability of release candidate 2a of our upcoming network security suite, the avast! Distributed Network Manager. Visit the Beta Section now. |
avast! for Linux Released July 15, 2004 - Release version of avast! for Linux with integrated mail and file system scanning is now available. The solution starts at $149.
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100% Virus Bulletin award
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100% Virus Bulletin award
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Product of the Year
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avast! BART CD finally released!
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100% Virus Bulletin award
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ChipTip award
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100% Virus Bulletin award In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (May 2003, Red Hat Linux) avast! detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given the VB100% award! |
ALWIL Software will exhibit at Infosec 2003
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ChipTip award avast! 4 Home Edition has been reviewed by czech Chip magazine in April 2003 and it received the ChipTip award again! |
100% Virus Bulletin award In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (November 2002, Windows 2000 Advanced Server test) avast! detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was awarded with the 100% Virus Bulletin award! |
Buy avast! online Now you can buy avast! online on Internet - via the element 5 site. It is simple, it is fast, it is secure, it is safe. Try it for yourself! |
100% Virus Bulletin award In the Virus Bulletin tests (June 2002, Windows XP Pro test) avast! detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was awarded with the 100% Virus Bulletin award! |
Virus detection has been changed
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ChipTip award
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Macro virus detection
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Fully automated database update via Internet
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e-mail scanner
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avast32 has been reviewed by ZDNet and it got 5 stars rating! Details could be seen here, the newer version which is also on ZDNet is here. |
ALWIL Software has moved! We have moved from Horni Pocernice back to Prubezna |
WUGNET awards Each week WUGNET and Microsoft feature a shareware pick demonstrating the highest standards available today in shareware for Windows 95/98. In the first week of March 99 AVAST32 has been awarded! |
100% Virus Bulletin award In the Virus Bulletin tests (November 1998) AVAST32 detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was awarded with the 100% Virus Bulletin award! |
Best local software product avast! has been selected as best local software product! |
100% Virus Bulletin award In the Virus Bulletin tests (September 1998) AVAST32 detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was awarded with the 100% Virus Bulletin award! |
ICSA Certified Product avast! is now ICSA Certified Product |
100% Virus Bulletin award In the Virus Bulletin tests (May 1998) AVAST32 detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was awarded with the 100% Virus Bulletin award! |
ALWIL Software became the member of AVPD (Anti-Virus Product Developers Consortium) of ICSA (International in April 1998. Computer Security Association) |
CeBIT'98: avast! Screen saver ALWIL Software has introduced quite new feature on CeBIT'98: avast! antivirus screen saver |
avast! has been selected as best local software product! Several Czech magazines and neswpapers (Chip, Profit, Mlady Svet etc.) let their readers choose the best products of the year 1997. |
AVAST32 got Product of the Year Czech Monthly magazine Softwarove noviny announced their annual awards |
Net.purum – filtrování internetu Vyzkoušejte náš nový produkt pro filtrování internetu. Potřebujete pro práci na internetu dokonalé reportování, antivirovou ochranu, filtrování www stránek podle kategorií nebo limitaci přenesených dat? Více informací získáte zde. |
We are the Champions! After scoring so well in DOS Comparative Review in July 96 edition of Virus Bulletin, we are the champions again!! |
Vote for avast!
Update: voting has now ended. No further action is necessary. Thanks to everyone who voted for avast! 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. |











avast! antivirus has been selected as one of this years finalists in the SC Awards, beating off stiff competition and leading the race in the last 4 contenders for the much coveted industry award. 
avast! 4.1 Home/Pro now speaks ten languages - English, Czech, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Japanese!





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