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New version 4.8.1296 released

We are pleased to announce the release of the new version 4.8.1296 of avast! antivirus Home and Professional Editions, which contains a number of new features. The new version includes a malicious URL blocker and faster scanning and updating speeds. For more details please read the revision history.

Download avast! Professional Edition and try it free of charge for 60 days, or purchase it here.

avast! antivirus rated "Advanced+" by AV Comparatives

 avast! antivirus has been awarded the highest "Advanced+" rating following tests carried out by AV-Comparatives.

avast! antivirus rated "++" by AV-Test

The independent testing body AV-Test has released the results of a major comparative test of antivirus products, covering detection rates for various types of malware. In the tests, avast! antivirus detected over 99% of all malware types (and more than 98% of adware and spyware) and has therefore  received a "++" rating for its detection rates in on-demand scanning. The full test results can be found here.

avast! celebrates 60 million registered users

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.
Go to the product page, or buy avast! Mac Edition now

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

Prague – December 20, 2007 ALWIL Software is proud to announce the general availability of three new products: avast! Mac Edition, avast! Windows Home Server Edition, and avast! Professional Family pack.

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…

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.

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

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!

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!

ADNM Released

December 21, 2004 - ALWIL Software today announces avast! Distributed Network Manager (ADNM), a comprehensive, scalable network antivirus management and monitoring system.

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!

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!

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.

100% Virus Bulletin award

In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (April 2004, Red Hat Linux) avast! again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award!

100% Virus Bulletin award

February 26, 2004 After slight technical problems, avast! 4 Pro detected all ItW ('in the wild') viruses in the latest Virus Bulletin test (February 2004, Windows NT) and thus earned another valuable VB100% award!

Product of the Year

January 21, 2004 avast! BART CD was awared by the Czech computer magazine Softwarove noviny as Product of the Year 2003.

SC Awards 2007 (U.S.)

avast! BART CD finally released!

July 16, 2003 avast! BART CD was finally released! This unique product is a dream of all administrators. After many years since DOS you can make clean boot on infected or damaged computer!!

100% Virus Bulletin award

June 2, 2003 In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (June 2003, Windows XP) avast! 4 Pro again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another valuable VB100% award!

ChipTip award

May 23, 2003 Another ChipTip award goes to our unique and brand new product: avast! BART CD! Czech Chip magazine reviewed it in June 2003 issue...

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!

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

Also Windows virus detection technology has been changed recently. Therefore we ask all our users to reinstall avast32 and to update it at least to version Feb'2001

ChipTip award

avast32 has been reviewed by czech Chip magazine in June 2001 and it got the ChipTip award!

Macro virus detection

New macro virus detection technology we have radically improved the macro virus detection in avast32 version 3.0 recently.

Fully automated database update via Internet

avast32 version 07/2000 has a new feature: fast incremental and fully automated database update via Internet called iAVS.

e-mail scanner

avast32 version 05/2000 now contains the e-mail scanner. This scanner works on general principle (POP3, SMTP) and it is independent on the used e-mail client.

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)

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.

Vote for avast!

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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.