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In 2010 the company took the name of its antivirus program and changed its name from Alwil Software to Avast Software. When Alwil became a public limited company in 2006, Avast Antivirus already had 40 million users. In the same year, in the categories 'Best Antivirus, Anti-Malware' (Europe) and 'Readers' Choice' ('User Choice') (USA). By the end of 2006, the number had increased to 20 million, and the software was awarded the 'SC Awards'. By 2002, the number of users increased to one million, mainly due to the free version available to private users as of 2001. In 1996, Avast Antivirus won the 'VB100 Award' from Virus Bulletin magazine in all tested categories.

Ondrej Vlček joined in 1995 and wrote the first antivirus program for Windows 95. With his colleague Eduard Kučera, he founded the Alwil Software Cooperative and transformed it into a private company in 1991, after the political change through the velvet revolution opened the possibility. Pavel Baudiš, a scientist at the Institute of Mathematical Machines in Prague, the 'Viennavirus' in 1988 and wrote a program that could eliminate the virus. As of the 2015 edition, avast! It was renamed 'Avast' for unknown reasons. According to OPSWAT report, with a market share of 21.4% is the free antivirus software most used in the world since 2017.Īvast Antivirus products include free and paid versions that provide computer security, browser security, antivirus software, firewalls, anti-phishing, anti-spyware and anti-spam among other services, also has a central analysis engine that successfully passed the ICSA Labs certification and West Coast Labs tests.Īccording to its creators, Avast was originally conceived under the name of 'Anti-Virus Advanced Set' (whose initials form the current name of the brand), in addition to that, in the Pirate jargon, the expression avast! means high! or stop, so it was used for product identity. Avast is an antivirus and security suite software from the Czech firm Avast Software (formerly called ALWIL Software), developed in the early 1990s.

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