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OPSWAT research firm reveals that free antivirus protection outranks paid protection among users, with European antivirus producers outranking their US-based competitors.

TheRegister.co.uk: Regular domains beat smut sites at hosting malware, 99 to 1

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.

Federal Computer Week: avast! delivers great AV protection for the perfect price

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.”

CHIP.de: Avast! Free Antivirus rated best by users in Germany (German only)

June 2, 2010

CHIP readers gave their analyses of the top 50 free programs. Avast! was the only antivirus application on their list.

c’t: avast! at the front of the free antivirus crowd (German only)

May 28, 2010

The c’t review of free antivirus programs found significant differences in their malware detection and technological capabilities.

anti-malware-test.com: AVAST’s GMER technology gets the top spot

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.

download.cnet.com: avast! 5 (free version) gets highest five-star rating

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.
Watch his “first look” video review.

download.cnet.com: avast! 5 (paid upgrade) gets highest five-star rating

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.

VB Magazine: One of the industry’s leading security magazines, calls the new avast! Free Beta “nothing short of a miracle”

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.”

PC MAG: Lab Testing Antivirus Software

March 26, 2010

avast! Free Antivirus 5.0 gets a four-star rating, to rank as high as several competing paid versions.

PC MAG: Analyst’s View: Antivirus Rescue CDs

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."

NotebookReview.com: avast! Free Antivirus is top choice of “2010 Free Antivirus Buyers Guide” from NotebookReview.com

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."

download.cnet.com: avast! takes top antivirus position in the CNET Security Starter Kit

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.

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