ALWIL Software a.s. is pleased to announce that the multi-award winning avast! antivirus has now passed 75 million registered users. Since the first registration in January 2002, avast! antivirus has grown to be a truly global product. While it took 6 years to achieve the 50 millionth user, it has taken only an additional 12 months for this number to reach 75 million.
Pavel Baudis and Eduard Kucera, the founders of ALWIL, said "We are very proud to have reached this truly amazing milestone. When we started the company just over 20 years ago, we strongly believed that we could make avast! antivirus a success, yet the community of loyal avast! users has grown more quickly than we ever imagined. We have only achieved this success with the help of our user community and we thank each and every user of avast! for their support; we could not be here without them.
This milestone demonstrates not only the success of the product, but also the success of our vision of providing the best security possible, free to our community. The free avast! Home Edition allows tens of millions of internet users to use the internet safely and securely, while our paid professional product provides extra capabilities to those businesses and users that need them.
We are also proud of the fact that testing by independent organisations such as AV Comparatives and Virus Bulletin confirms that the performance of avast! antivirus is among the best in the industry. We try exceptionally hard to bring the best protection in the industry to our community. And we know we are getting it right when, on the popular website Download.com, from which avast! antivirus has been downloaded over 39 million times, our users have rated us at 4.5 out of 5 stars - the highest of any antivirus product."
Ondrej Vlcek, the lead developer for over 10 years, adds "The continued success and popularity of avast! is based on our ability to deliver a world-class free security product for all significant computing platforms. In these difficult economic times, we remain committed to providing a free security solution and not driving consumers to spend money unnecessarily. In addition to respecting our user community, we recognize that our success also comes from being at the leading edge of technological innovation and we will continue to respond to our customers' needs and develop the technology to ensure that we continue to provide a best-in-class security solution."
avast! antivirus can be downloaded from www.avast.com or from www.download.com and can be downloaded in 33 different languages -three or four times more than the largest players in the industry. 75 million users have already given it their vote of confidence, with more than half this number coming from France, the United States, Brazil, Poland, Italy and Japan and many more in almost every country worldwide.
Until the end of February 2009, Alwil Software a.s. is offerring a 25% discount on the normal price of avast! Professional Edition and avast! Professional Family Pack when purchased through its on-line store. To claim the discount online, enter the discount code "75Millions" during the checkout process (in the coupon code box provided).
avast! Home Edition is available free-of-charge for non-commercial home use. avast! Professional Edition is provided for both home and commercial use, and also forms part of the avast! Professional Family Pack, the antivirus solution for home networks. All products can be downloaded and purchased from www.avast.com.
