Press Release: avast! WHS Edition Released
Prague – January 9th 2008 – for immediate release: ALWIL Software a.s. is pleased to announce the release of avast! WHS Edition for Microsoft Windows Home Server platform.
The new home server platform from Microsoft is likely to become a key home infrastructure product over time, due the ever increasing data produced by personal media, such as home video or digital photographs or music and media downloads, with much of that data being irreplaceable.
Commenting on the release, Eduard Kucera, CEO and Chairman of ALWIL Software said, "Home data storage and serving technologies are becoming a necessity in today’s multi-media world, particularly with camera resolutions increasing and the quality of legally downloaded content being higher and higher; as such, their protection should be a priority for anyone who uses these devices, particularly where such a device is the only place treasured files are stored. This new avast! WHS Edition is a key offering to our consumer customer’s and we’ve set the price-point to be exceptionally competitive, such that price does not need to be the deciding factor in such a purchase, just having the best technology to do the job."
avast! WHS Edition is available now from all authorized avast! resellers and directly online via element 5/element 5, ALWIL Software’s ecommerce provider. avast! WHS Edition is available in handy one, two or three year's license periods, which include all program and virus definition updates.
Also available now, avast! Professional Family Pack, which includes both avast! WHS Edition and up to ten avast! Professional Edition licenses for use in one domestic location, including commercial use at that location. As with avast! WHS Edition, the price point has been set aggressively to make this an excellent value product.
Both of these product offerings are provided with an introductory 25% discount for the entire of January when ordered via our online shop or purchased via an authorized reseller. This discount cannot be combined with any other offer.
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About ALWIL Software a.s. - Since 1988 ALWIL Software has produced antivirus products that have been developed into the multi-award winning avast! antivirus product line, making avast! one of the most matured and tested products on the antivirus market. Headquartered in Prague, in the Czech Republic, ALWIL Software develops and markets avast! antivirus products that protect every major operating system platform and every major vulnerable device type. Further details about the company and its products can be found on ALWIL’s corporate website, www.avast.com. AVAST is a registered trademark in the United States of America and other countries and is used under exclusive license to ALWIL Software a.s.
About avast! antivirus products - avast! is the multi-award winning antivirus product line from ALWIL Software a.s., which is ICSA Labs and Checkmark certified and regularly receives the Virus Bulletin 100% award, for detection of 100% of in-the-wild viruses. In 2006 avast! antivirus won the SC Awards for Best Antivirus in both the US and European categories as well as Best Anti-Malware solution category in Europe. avast! was also a finalist in 2007. avast! antivirus is in use in over 45 million homes and offices worldwide and is specifically engineered with 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. avast! antivirus is 20 years old in 2008, watch out for special offers on our website to help us celebrate this milestone year.
