Avast! (styled avast!) is a freemium antivirus computer program available to Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users, with a user interface available in 41 languages. The name Avast is an acronym of "Anti-Virus – Advanced Set". The official, and current logo of Avast! is a white orb with the letter 'a' on it and an orange circle around it, sticking out to four directions. Its developer, AVAST Software a.s. (formerly known as ALWIL Software a.s.), has headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, with offices in Linz, Austria; Friedrichshafen, Germany; and San Mateo, California.
It has been awarded VB100 Award by Virus Bulletin multiple times for 100% detection of "in-the-wild" viruses, and also won the Secure Computing Readers' Trust Award. The central scanning engine has been certified by ICSA Labs[6] and West Coast Labs' Checkmark process.
Avast! competes in the antivirus industry against Avira, AVG Technologies, Bitdefender, F-Secure, Frisk, Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro among others.
Developer: AVAST Software a.s. (formerly ALWIL Software a.s.)
Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8, Linux, Macintosh, Palm OS, Windows Server Edition, Android
Type: Antivirus software
License: Freemium
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| Avast! Free Antivirus |
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| A pop-up from Avast! indicating that the program's antivirus database has been updated. |
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| A pop-up from Avast! indicating that the EICAR test file had been blocked. Download |
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