October 17, 2010
In changes regarding Microsoft Security Essentials pricing policies, Symantec, ESET, and avast! weigh in their agreement that the basic, signature-based MSE free product offering, though commendable in what it would like to do (protect businesses), is not capable enough to actually do it.October 14, 2010
In Massachusetts (USA) news, the project Laptops for KidZ receives a donation of computers – pre-installed with Open Office, Adobe Reader, and avast! antivirus software – from the International Fund for Animal Welfare.October 11, 2010
In a list of essential security recommendations for all Gmail users, technology journalist and communications professional Kevin Tea says “I recommend Avast.”October 5, 2010
Able to efficiently multitask in ways other antivirus programs can’t, avast! antivirus gets singled out as an alternative to resource-consuming Norton products, in the quest for extending the life of your laptop PC.September 26, 2010
Tested among the top-10 free antivirus products, avast! Free Antivirus comes in at number one for detection results and number two for prevention performance. According to Donna Buenaventura, key features of avast! include “boot-time scan, an e-mail scanner and the useful network shield.”September 9, 2010
Techworld talks about the avast! code emulator, heuristics engine, and Behavior Shield, with a synopsis that “avast! Internet Security is a comprehensive security suite that delivers strong all-round protection for your PC.”September 7, 2010
A computer technician named Joe talks about the “simple and painless” installation of avast!, and discusses its shields, boot-scan, and various other options, pointing out in a case study that, “During the boot scan, Avast detected and cleaned the virus we knew about along with more than 2,000 others the commercial product did not detect.”August 27, 2010
A review in which avast! Internet Security 5.0 is found to possess features – such as wake-up scan or boot-time scan – that not all security suites provide. As well, 7tutorials finds that “Avast! continues to shine in the area of reporting with a great display of active network connections and a very attractive interface” and gives avast! its “Buy for Geeks!” award.August 27, 2010
The world’s most-visited download website, CNET.com, after having already given avast! Free Antivirus its full 5-star editor’s rating, now recommends avast! as a crucial addition to your computer in the coming school year.August 23, 2010
“[The avast! business model is] the wave of the future,” according to Summit Managing Director Scott Collins “The free user base is a powerful kind of virtual circle – the more users, the more feedback you obtain about viruses, customer support and the like[…] I think in some ways it’s turning the industry upside down.”August 20, 2010
Unsatisfied with leading the way in terms of providing accessible web security for the visually impaired, avast! worked together with “vision-impaired IT geeks” to ensure that its antivirus software not only works with the Job Access With Speech screen reader (JAWS), but is easy to use with it, as well.August 12, 2010
Along with iTunes, Picasa, OpenOffice, and Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive, avast! Free Antivirus is named by AARP, an organization representing 40 million people over the age of 50, as an essential money-saving tool for everyday computing. avast! is the antivirus software of choice for those on a tight budget.August 9, 2010
Softpedia’s Lucian Constantin interviews AVAST Software CTO Ondrej Vlcek on the past and coming trends and developments of operating systems, browsers, general security, and several other aspects of safe computing.August 6, 2010
Computer expert Dennis Halnon names avast! Free Antivirus 5.0 as the only free antivirus that he knows of with “boot-scan” capability, and reports that the feature “can rescue a computer so infected that it can’t even start up.”August 3, 2010
NotebookReview.com Editor Jay Garman names avast! Free Antivirus one of the top 10 essential items for your computer for the coming school year, and reminds readers that it topped their list of Best Free Antivirus Software of 2010.July 27, 2010
In this interview with Softpedia, AVAST Software CEO Vincent Steckler identifies particular areas of concern for the global commuting community (including password management), clarifies common misperceptions about mobile phone security, and explains why technological features do not always mean very much to end users.July 12, 2010
OPSWAT research firm reveals that free antivirus protection outranks paid protection among users, with European antivirus producers outranking their US-based competitors.June 30, 2010
John Leyden reports on AVAST Software’s findings that, for each infected adult website, there are 99 infected domains of legitimate organizations.June 21, 2010
avast! ranks above AVG because it “protects your computer just as well as an expensive solution does, but also because it’s easy to install, use and pay for.” The article continues that “everything about [avast!] is terrific. It’s very unobtrusive yet quick to catch, quarantine and remove any bug we could find online or throw at it in the lab.”June 2, 2010
CHIP readers gave their analyses of the top 50 free programs. Avast! was the only antivirus application on their list.May 28, 2010
The c’t review of free antivirus programs found significant differences in their malware detection and technological capabilities.May 2, 2010
According to independent performance research by Anti-Malware Test Lab, avast! antivirus outperformed its competitors, earning a top Platinum Award based on: OS boot-time, CPU & memory usage, on-access scan times, and more.January 18, 2010
“Avast is remarkable for both its effectiveness and arguably providing the most complete free antivirus on the market,” writes Seth Rosenblatt in his review.January 19, 2010
Avast Professional 5 (paid upgrade version) gets kudos for its "sleek" new user interface (UI) and other attributes, reportedly stacking up against the largest competitors in terms of effectiveness – but for less money.January 10 2010
John Hawes writes, “avast! 5 strikes an excellent balance between simplicity and control, with a very good depth of configuration made available without compromising ease of use. Information is vital here, and the interface designers have done a great job of providing lots of detail on what each section does, and how and why, couched in simple layman’s language to enable all users to get the most out of the product without requiring a computing degree or hours of research.”March 26, 2010
avast! Free Antivirus 5.0 gets a four-star rating, to rank as high as several competing paid versions.March 10, 2010
avast!'s BART (Bootable Antivirus and Recovery Tool) CD performs "a complete cleanup without any help from another product," receives designation as the only rescue CD to remove malware traces in the 'foreign' registry, and is named "the true virus warrior."December 12, 2009
"Avast was significantly more proactive than the other suites, detecting and blocking all four of our test virus files before the download actually started."November 25, 2009
avast! is the new top antivirus choice in the CNET Security Starter Kit 2010, an annual list of recommended security freeware from the editors of CNET, the world’s most popular technology review and download site.
