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Thus, on 1 June, ALWIL Software launched a free antivirus solution for home (non-commercial) use. Also, ALWIL hired its first tech-support specialist, Pavel Mourek.Ģ001 – Co-founder Eduard Kučera implemented a user-community growth strategy based on the principle that all computer users deserve protection from harmful threats, and that computer safety should not be a luxury some cannot afford. He wrote the first antivirus program for Windows 95.ġ996 – Avast! antivirus was one of the first three antivirus programs globally to win Virus Bulletin’s VB100 awards in all testing categories.ġ997 – ALWIL Software provided the Avast! antivirus engine to McAfee, which licensed it for use in its own line of McAfee antivirus products with the "Powered by Avast! engine" logo on the McAfee VirusScan boxes. Due to the oppressive regime, however, they were unable to form a ‘company’ at that time.ġ991 – Founders Pavel Baudiš and Eduard Kučera, free from the socioeconomic constraints of the former regime, transformed ALWIL Software from a ‘cooperative’ into a joint partnership ‘company’.ġ995 – A young Ondrej Vlček (current AVAST CTO) joined ALWIL while completing his university studies. He then showed it to colleague Eduard Kučera and, together, they started ALWIL Software cooperative, which released the first Avast! antivirus. The central scanning engine has been certified by ICSA Labs and West Coast Labs' Checkmark process.Īvast! competes in the antivirus industry against Avira, AVG Technologies, Bitdefender, F-Secure, Frisk, Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro among others.ġ988 – Pavel Baudiš, then a researcher at Prague’s Mathematical Machines Research Institute, encountered a sample of the Vienna Virus and, intrigued by it, wrote a program able to remove it. It has been awarded VB100 Award by Virus Bulletin multiple times for 100% detection of "in-the-wild" viruses, and also won the Secure Computing Readers' Trust Award.
(formerly known as ALWIL Software a.s.), has headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, with offices in Linz, Austria Friedrichshafen, Germany and San Mateo, California. The official, and current logo of Avast! is a white orb with the letter 'a' on it and an orange circle around it, sticking out to four directions. The name Avast is an acronym of "Anti-Virus – Advanced Set".
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Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/Windows 8 (32/64-bit), Linux, Macintosh, Palm OS, Windows Server Edition, AndroidĪvast! (styled avast!) is a freemium antivirus computer program available to Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users, with a user interface available in 41 languages.