Press Release: avast! Mac Edition Released
Prague – January 9th 2008 – for immediate release: ALWIL Software a.s. is pleased to announce the release of the lastest member of the avast! family of products, avast! Mac Edition for the Macintosh platform.
With the ever increasing threats on this platform, avast! Mac Edition provides an ICSA certified scan engine that is proven to protect valuable, and often irreplaceable data and programs. On a single computer, or as part of a heterogeneous infrastructure, avast! Mac Edition provides protection for the Mac platform, while also protecting PC-using colleagues or friends.
Commenting on the release, Eduard Kucera, CEO and Chairman of ALWIL Software said, "We are extremely pleased to have this solution available for the Mac community, which has been in development for over two years." Mr. Kucera continues, "avast! Mac Edition provides best-in-class antivirus protection for the Macintosh platform, and, as the engine itself is a direct port of the avast! Windows platform engine, Mac users can now be sure they are not passing on infections to their PC-using co-workers or friends."
avast! Mac Edition is available now from all authorized avast! resellers and directly online via element 5/element 5, ALWIL Software’s ecommerce provider. avast! Mac Edition is available in handy one, two or three year's license periods, which include all program and virus definition updates.
avast! Mac Edition is provided with an introductory 25% discount for the entire of January when ordered via our online shop or purchased via an authorized reseller. This discount cannot be combined with any other offer.
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About ALWIL Software a.s. - Since 1988 ALWIL Software has produced antivirus products that have been developed into the multi-award winning avast! antivirus product line, making avast! one of the most matured and tested products on the antivirus market. Headquartered in Prague, in the Czech Republic, ALWIL Software develops and markets avast! antivirus products that protect every major operating system platform and every major vulnerable device type. Further details about the company and its products can be found on ALWIL’s corporate website, www.avast.com. AVAST is a registered trademark in the United States of America and other countries and is used under exclusive license to ALWIL Software a.s.
About avast! antivirus products - avast! is the multi-award winning antivirus product line from ALWIL Software a.s., which is ICSA Labs and Checkmark certified and regularly receives the Virus Bulletin 100% award, for detection of 100% of in-the-wild viruses. In 2006 avast! antivirus won the SC Awards for Best Antivirus in both the US and European categories as well as Best Anti-Malware solution category in Europe. avast! was also a finalist in 2007. avast! antivirus is in use in over 45 million homes and offices worldwide and is specifically engineered with 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. avast! antivirus is 20 years old in 2008, watch out for special offers on our website to help us celebrate this milestone year.
