- What does Avast do: Avast Free Antivirus is a free security program. In addition to anti-malware features, it includes a manual software update feature and network-security scanner.
- Launch year: 1988
- Company Name: Avast Software
- Headquarters: Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Founder(s): Pavel Baudis and Eduard kucera
- Total Number of Avast employees: 1,800+
- How many people use Avast: 400 million+ average users
- Revenue: US $ 871.1 million
- Weekly active users: 9 million
- Attack prevented: 1.5 billion per month
- Active customers: 435 million
- Number of organizations that use Avast: 859 Companies
- Number of countries that Avast has user: 59 Countries
- Top Country for Avast usage: United States
- Available Languages: 45 Languages
- Funding raised so far: USD 100 million
- Valuation: USD 2865.9 million
- Top 5 Competitors or similar products: Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, Eset, Bitdefender, Fortinet
- Avast means: To Stop, Cease or Halt
- History: Pavel Baudis defeats the Vienna virus and joined with Eduard kucera to establish the ALWIL Cooperative to distribute and sell their newly created software.
- Free plan: Avast gives 30 days trial plan with a high end protection
- What makes Avast interesting: Easy to Download, Freeware including fully functional antivirus, antispyware, and heuristics engines.
- Awards: Winner of 5 Advanced+ awards for lowest impact on PC performance, Rated #1 best SMB cybersecurity software of 2019 by Techradar
- Criticism: In January of 2020, multiple news sources reported that Avast Antivirus, through a subsidiary, was selling the browsing history of Avast product users.
+ One interesting news:
Avast released a window new version on 1 April 2020
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