avast! wins CNET Download.com 5 star rating
Prague - 21st January 2007: For Immediate Release : ALWIL Software a.s. is very pleased to announce that CNET Download.com has awarded avast! Home Edition the coveted five star rating.
avast!'s award winning line of products is available on multiple platforms, from U3, Linux, Solaris, Mac and PC. avast! Home Edition is available free of charge to non-commercial home users (both conditions being a mandatory part of the End User License Agreement).
Commenting on the five star award by download.com, Eduard Kucera, ALWIL Software a.s. Chairman and CEO, said, "We are very pleased to have received the download.com five star award from CNET, and this continues to show us that, as our products mature, we are still listening to customers and trying our very best to get it right. This type of award would suggest that we are meeting customer needs."
CNET's download.com is the most popular download server. avast! has had over four million downloads from download.com, and the number continues to grow each day. Users have voted avast! the number one antivirus in multiple jurisdictions.
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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. Further details about the company and its products can be found on their corporate website http://www.avast.com.
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, and SC Awards 2006 for best antivirus in both the US and European categories as well as Best anti-malware solution category in Europe. 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.
