Awards and Certificates
Secure Computing SC Awards
An industry highlight held each year, the coveted SC Awards from Secure Computing magazine is run as separate awards in Europe, the USA and Asia (APac), and is voted upon by the people who really matter in the security products business: customers.
avast! Home Edition is Winner in the security software category. More information on PC World pages.
Server Softplatz certified avast! Home Edition with mark 100% safe Certified. More information is on Softplatz web server.
The Softpedia portal has published an avast! Home review. You may read the third party review of avast! Home Edition on the Softpedia pages
Denmark PC World awarded avast! 4.7 Home. You can find more information in Denmark PC World (in Danish)
product "Avast! Home Edition 4.7.869" has been tested by the Softpedia labs and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components. More information about your product's certification and the award is available on this page.
product "Avast! Professional Edition 4.7.869" has been tested by the Softpedia labs and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components. More information about your product's certification and the award is available on this page.
avast! 4 Professioanl Edition has received the prestigious Secure Computing 2006 award (for the US region). Learn more in the official press release.
avast! Home Edition on Russian server Softodrom.ru get best five stars award. More information in russian language you may read on Softodrom.ru
avast! Home Edition receive award on german ZDNet server. More information you may read on ZDNet.de in German.
100% Virus Bulletin awardDecember 19, 2005 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (December 2005, Windows Server 2003 x64 version) avast! 4 Server Edition again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award!
SC Awards 2006 Finalist
With over 1,300 product and service nominations, from over 330 competing companies globally, the annual Secure Computing Awards are the world’s leading awards program for the information security industry and thanks to you, and the votes you placed, Avast! Antivirus has successfully proved its worth by being listed as one of only four finalists in its category.
The SC Awards program spans the US, Asia, and the UK so the competition is tough. The SC Awards are composed of two sections. The ‘Reader Trust Technology Awards’ which are voted on by SC readers in the US and European regions, and by the SC Awards Council which comprises of a group of carefully selected senior CSOs; and the Asian Pacific awards and other categories including the ‘Professional Awards’ which are judged by a panel of the industry’s top talents.
100% Virus Bulletin awardOctober 19, 2005 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (October 2005, Windows 2003 Server) avast! 4 Pro again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award!
Server SharewarePlaza get avast! 4 Pro Edition best rating
Server SharewarePlaza get avast! Home Edition best rating
100% Virus Bulletin awardMay 27, 2005 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (June 2005, Windows XP) avast! 4 Pro again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award!
100% Virus Bulletin awardApril 1, 2005 - In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (April 2005, Red Hat Linux) avast! again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another VB100% award! This is third VB100% for Linux version in a row!!
100% Virus Bulletin awardIn the latest Virus Bulletin tests (February 2005, Windows NT 4) avast! 4 Pro again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was awarded with another 100% Virus Bulletin award!
100% Virus Bulletin awardIn the latest Virus Bulletin tests (November 2004, Windows Server 2003) avast! 4 Server Edition again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was awarded with another 100% Virus Bulletin award!
Five picks
avast! Virus Cleaner obtained the best award Five pick on Softpedia server.
avast! Virus Cleaner obtained the best award Five pick on Softpedia server.
100% Virus Bulletin award In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (April 2004, Red Hat Linux test) avast! again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was awarded with another 100% Virus Bulletin award!
100% Virus Bulletin awardIn the latest Virus Bulletin tests (February 2004, Windows NT) avast! 4 Pro again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another valuable VB100% award!
Product of the Year for BART!Famous Czech Computer Monthly magazine Softwarove
noviny (Software News) awarded our avast! BART CD with the Product of the Year 2003 prize
Five stars from TopShareware.comThe download server TopShareware.com awarded five stars for our product avast! Virus Cleaner. More information about avast! Virus Cleaner can be found here
Palec (Thumb Up) from czech Computer magazinePalec (Thumb Up) award goes to our new product: avast! BART CD. Czech Computer magazine reviewed it in July-August 2003 issue and found it very useful.
100% Virus Bulletin awardIn the latest Virus Bulletin tests (June 2003, Windows XP) avast! 4 Pro again detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was given another valuable VB100% award!
5 cows at Tucows for avast! 4 Pro!Also Tucows web server has rated our avast! 4 Pro with its highest mark: 5 cows this time!
ChipTip June 2003 Another ChipTip award goes to our unique and brand new product: avast! BART CD! Czech Chip magazine reviewed it in June 2003 issue and found it very useful.
100% Virus Bulletin award In the latest Virus Bulletin tests (May 2003, Red Hat Linux test) avast! detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild') and was awarded with the 100% Virus Bulletin award!
ChipTip April 2003 avast! 4 Home Edition has been reviewed by czech Chip magazine in April
2003 and it received the
ChipTip award again!
100% Virus Bulletin awardavast! received 100% Virus Bulletin award in November 2002. avast! detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild').
100% Virus Bulletin award avast! received 100% Virus Bulletin award in June 2002. avast! detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild').
avast! has got the Clickx Keuze award for the best antivirus program in the
large comparative review published in the February issue of Belgian Clickx
computer magazine!
ChipTip June 2001 avast32 has been reviewed by czech Chip magazine in June 2001 and it got the
ChipTip award!
avast32 has been reviewed by ZDNet and it got 5 stars rating! Details could
be seen here,
the newer version which is also on ZDNet is here.
WUGNETEach week WUGNET
and Microsoft feature a shareware pick demonstrating the highest
standards available today in shareware for Windows 95/98. In the first
week of March 99 AVAST32 has been awarded!
100% Virus Bulletin awardavast! received 100% Virus Bulletin award in November 1998. AVAST32 detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild').
Best local software avast! has been selected as the best local software
product again. It received the Choice'98 award, for the fourth
time in line now!
100% Virus Bulletin awardavast! received 100% Virus Bulletin award in September 1998. AVAST32 detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild').
ICSA Certifiedavast!
is ICSA Certified Product for the following
platforms: DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows
NT. Such certification guarantees that avast! is able to detect
100% of In the Wild viruses and at least 90% of all viruses known to ICSA.
100% Virus Bulletin awardavast! received 100% Virus Bulletin award in May 1998. AVAST32 detected all ItW viruses (i.e. viruses known to be 'in the wild').
Best local software productavast! has been selected as the best local software product. Several Czech magazines and neswpapers (Chip, Profit, Mlady Svet etc.) let their readers choose the best products of the year 1998. AVAST32 was voted as the best local software product for the fourth time in the line and got the award Choice 1998 from the computer users in Czech Republic and Slovakia!
PC-World magazine Czech version of PC-World magazine (published by IDG awarded avast! with its Top Product award in its August 1997 issue.
Software News Czech Computer Monthly magazine Softwarove noviny (Software News) awarded AVAST32 as the Product of the Year 1996. avast! received this price four times in a row in the years
1993 to 1996!
Chip awarded Czech modification of well known German magazine Chip awarded avast! many times in the past. The latest award is from October 1997 issue. The new version of AVAST32 received Chip Tip of the month prize.
IDG Test Centrum focuses on the testing of different hardware and software
products. avast! was awarded with the special TIP award in their
special antivirus tests provided during 1996 .
Other information
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