![]() ![]() He then showed it to colleague Eduard Kučera and, together, they started ALWIL Software cooperative, which released the first Avast! antivirus. ![]() 1988 – 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.Īvast! competes in the antivirus industry against Avira, AVG Technologies, Bitdefender, F-Secure, Frisk, Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro among others. The central scanning engine has been certified by ICSA Labs and West Coast Labs' Checkmark process. 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 Se t". Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista/ 7/ Windows 8 (32/64-bit), Linux, Macintosh, Palm OS, Windows Server Edition, AndroidĪvast! ( styled avast!) is - both freeware and payable - an antivirus computer program with user interface that includes 41 languages, available to Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users. ![]()
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