Avast Antivirus
Avast! (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. The name Avast is an acronym of "Anti-Virus – Advanced Set".[2] 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.
Its developer, AVAST Software a.s. (formerly known as ALWIL Software a.s.), has headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, with offices in Linz, Austria;Friedrichshafen, Germany; and San Mateo, California.[3]
It has been awarded VB100 Award by Virus Bulletin multiple times for 100% detection of "in-the-wild" viruses,[4] and also won the Secure Computing Readers' Trust Award.[5] The central scanning engine has been certified byICSA Labs[6] and West Coast Labs' Checkmark process.[7]
Avast! competes in the antivirus industry against Avira, AVG Technologies,Bitdefender, F-Secure, Frisk, Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Microamong others.
1988 – Pavel Baudiš, then a researcher at Prague’s Mathematical Machines Research Institute, encountered a sample of theVienna Virus and, intrigued by it, wrote a program able to remove it. He then showed it to colleague Eduard Kučera and, together, they started ALWIL Software cooperative, which released the first Avast! antivirus. Due to the oppressive regime, however, they were unable to form a ‘company’ at that time.
But After 1998 Avast climbed the golden ladder of their success and now in 2012 - As of Q2, Avast! had more than 150 million active users and over 211 million user registrations – with just over 200 employees. New product launches included a new version of Avast! Free Antivirus for Mac; the Avast! Endpoint Protection business security line; and the Avast! 7.0 series, with innovations that included FileRep (a cloud-based file reputation warning system), streaming updates (also cloud-based), and Remote Assistance capabilities.
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