avast! Home Edition wins PC Format Gold Award

Prague 12th December 2005: For Immediate Release: ALWIL Software is proud to announce that avast! Home Edition today received the respected PC Format GOLD award, with a total score of 90%, the highest achieved in the group test.

The group test included all major competing antivirus vendors, and avast! Home Edition appeared as the clear winner.

The results were generated in completely independent testing of the software (from all vendors) -- ALWIL Software was not even aware that the software was under test, by PC Formats own staff testers.

Full information about the teting and conclusions can be found in the latest edition of the magazine (issue 182) available from all good UK stockists.

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 produces avast! products that cover everything from U3 devices, desktops, PDA and server protection on multiple platforms.

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.