avast! joins PC World "101 Fabulous Freebies" list
Prague – 11th April 2006: For immediate release: ALWIL Software is pleased to announce that avast! Home Edition has made it to PC World’s "101 Fabulous Freebies" List for the first time in the May 2006 issue of the magazine.
The list, chosen each year by PC World editors, is selected by each software or services features, design and performance. Each product had to be a fully functioning version of the software that consumers could obtain at no cost.
avast! Home Edition utilizes the award winning avast! antivirus scanning engine, and is a cut-down version of our multi-award winning Professional Edition, designed for non-commercial home use (both conditions being a license requirement.)
Commenting on the listing, Eduard Kucera, Joint President and CEO of ALWIL Software said: "This has been a very positive year for avast!, and our desktop variants in particular, and entering the PC World 101 Fabulous Freebies list is yet another achievement we are very proud of." Mr. Kucera continues, "Editors are not always the easiest of audiences to win over, but getting PC World editors to recognize the broad feature-set, good design and high performance of our Home Edition product really speaks volumes for how far we have developed avast! technology over the past few years. We believe it will only get better."
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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.
About avast! antivirus products - avast! is the multi-award winning antivirus product line from ALWIL Software, which has been ICSA Labs certified and regularly receives the Virus Bulletin 100% award, for detection of 100% of in-the-wild viruses. 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. In the 2006 avast! antivirus has already received the coveted SC AWARDS prize (US Category) for best antivirus product.
