avast! Wins SC Award
Prague – 15th February 2006: For immediate release: ALWIL Software is proud to announce that it has won the prestigious SC Readers Choice Awards for best Antivirus (avast!) for the USA section of the award event.
ALWIL Software’s avast! product was up against nominated industry leaders in the category, including: McAfee Inc. - McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i; Symantec Corporation - Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.0 and Aladdin Knowledge Systems - Aladdin eSafe.
The annual awards, initially voted for by SC Magazine readers, are one of the most important awards run each year, with over 300 companies competing with over 1300 products and services.
The US awards were announced at a gala event at the Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA.
Commenting on the win, Eduard Kucera, Vice President and CEO of ALWIL Software said, "We are obviously very pleased to have won this well-regarded award, especially as our customers get to vote, we take it as them thanking us for a job well done. We are glad they feel we’ve earned it, and we can continue to offer word-class security solutions knowing we are getting it right."
Ondrej Vlcek, Lead Program Manager and head of development for ALWIL Software further commented: "This is an exciting win for us, and we would like to thank everyone who took the time to vote for us for helping us have both a great product, and, of course, win this award."
The European awards UK ceremony (for which avast! is also nominated) will take place at the Grosvenor House, London, UK on the 25th April 2006.
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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 here: 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. 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.
About SC Magazine Awards 2006 - US - With over 1,300 product and service nominations from over 330 competing companies globally, the SC Awards are the world’s leading awards program for the information security industry. New this year, the SC Magazine Awards have three separate award programs for the US, UK, and Asia Pacific regions. The awards are composed of the Reader Trust Awards—voted on by SC readers in each region, and the excellence and professional awards that are judged by a panel of the industry’s top talents. Winners were announced at the 2006 SC Awards Gala on February 14th, 2006 which took place at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. To view the full list of winners or to learn more about the SC Magazine Awards 2006-US please visit: http://www.scawards.com.
