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Avast Closes Acquisition of AVG Technologies

Sep 30, 2016

Avast receives all regulatory approvals for proposed acquisition

Sep 21, 2016

Avast extends its tender offer

Sep 16, 2016

Avast extends its tender offer

Sep 1, 2016

Avast Releases New Cleanup Solution to Remove Unwanted Clutter from PCs

Aug 10, 2016

Amidst Charged Cyber Security Dialogue, Republican National Convention Attendees Show Negligent Behavior

Jul 19, 2016

Avast Announces Agreement to Acquire AVG for $1.3B

Jul 7, 2016

Avast Unveils Zero-Second Threat Detection in its New, High-speed Version of Its Flagship Antivirus Products

Jun 21, 2016

Avast Releases New Photo Space App to Increase iPhone Photo Capacity Seven Times

Jun 9, 2016

Selling Your Smartphone Could Mean Selling Your Identity. Avast Finds Used Smartphones Still Contain Personal Information and Data

Feb 23, 2016

Avast Wi-Fi Hack Experiment Demonstrates “Reckless” Behavior of Mobile World Congress Attendees

Feb 22, 2016

Avast to Demonstrate Mobile Security App with Qualcomm at Mobile World Congress

Feb 19, 2016

Avast Virtual Mobile Platform Brings Mobile Enterprise Security to a New Frontier

Feb 17, 2016

Avast Makes it Easy to Find Reliable and Secure Public Wi-Fi with New Wi-Fi Finder App

Feb 9, 2016

Avast Opens New Headquarters in Innovative High Rise Building to Support its Growth

Jan 21, 2016

Most Americans Claim They Follow Best Practices to Protect Their Privacy Online; Avast Research Proves Otherwise

Nov 3, 2015

What Happens to a Lost Smartphone?

Oct 28, 2015

Avast Builds Threat Detection Based on Machine Learning to Protect Users from Zero Day Attacks, Malware, and Privacy Threats

Aug 31, 2015

ASUS Selects Avast SecureLine VPN to Offer Secure Browsing to Consumers

Aug 19, 2015

Avast Software Acquires Mobile Virtualization Company Remotium

Jul 8, 2015

Avast Browser Cleanup Has Removed 650 Million Unwanted Browser Add-ons

Jul 7, 2015

Avast for Business Adds 75,000 New Customers in Just Two Months

Apr 21, 2015

Avast Posts 51 Percent Revenue Growth in 2014; Adds Nearly 30 Million New Users

Mar 31, 2015

Avast Launches Memory-Saving Cleaner App for Android

Mar 3, 2015

Intelligent Avast App Extends Android Battery Life by 7 Hours

Mar 3, 2015

Avast Exposes Huge Security Risks in Open Wi-Fi Habits

Mar 2, 2015

Avast Protects iOS and Android Users from Identity Theft and Wi-Fi Hacking

Mar 2, 2015

Avast Exposes the Risky State of U.S. Wi-Fi Security and Demonstrates New Security Solutions at Mobile World Congress

Feb 25, 2015

Avast Launches World’s First Free Business-Grade Security Offering

Feb 23, 2015

Using Public Wi-Fi Networks Puts Unprotected American Mobile Users at Risk for Identity Theft and Privacy Loss, According to Avast

Feb 10, 2015

Avast Research Discovers 79 Percent of American Home Networks are at Risk of Cybersecurity Attacks

Nov 5, 2014

Avast Introduces First-ever Home Network Security Solution

Oct 22, 2014

New Avast Survey Shows Consumers Are Failing to Protect Their Home Networks

Oct 22, 2014

AVAST Mobile Security Surpasses 100-Million Download Mark Faster Than Any Cyber Security App in Google Play History

Sep 4, 2014

AVAST Acquires Mobile Development Start-up Inmite to Extend Mobile Leadership

Jul 24, 2014

AVAST Demonstrates Risk of Selling Used Smartphones – Recovers 40,000 Personal Photos and Emails from Phones Bought Online

Jul 8, 2014

AVAST Ransomware Removal tool Kills Simplocker and Rescues Android Users’ Photos, Videos, and Documents for Free

Jun 17, 2014

AVAST Launches avast! GrimeFighter – the Only Easy-to-Use PC Cleanup Tool that Actually Increases Performance

Mar 26, 2014

AVAST Dominates in Mobile Security Across the Globe

Mar 12, 2014

CVC Capital Partners Invests in Avast to drive US and Mobile Growth

Feb 5, 2014

Securely Browse on Public Wi-Fi: AVAST Introduces SecureLine for Android and New iOS Version

Jan 28, 2014

AVAST is Awarded Best Employer in the Czech Republic

Nov 26, 2013

AVAST Makes the Most Trusted Antivirus in the World Even Faster and More Effective

Oct 16, 2013

AVAST Software Acquires Jumpshot to Work Magic Against Slow PC Performance

Sep 24, 2013

avast! Mobile Premium Fights Back Against Phone Theft, While Securing Your Data

Aug 27, 2013

avast! SecureLine answers high demand for secure WiFi

Jun 26, 2013

AVAST expands online privacy with acquisition of secure.me

Apr 30, 2013

Protection at your fingertips – The new AVAST 8

Feb 28, 2013

BBC Program Follow-up Test Shows Avast Leads Secure Online Banking

Nov 26, 2012

Avast to improve on Facebook and Twitter engagement with Socialbakers

Nov 7, 2012

First Free Antivirus Certified for Windows 8: avast!

Nov 5, 2012

Survey: AVAST Users Put Romney Ahead but Expect Obama to Win

Nov 5, 2012

Survey: Win8 considered safer but few desire to buy a new Win8 PC

Oct 25, 2012

AVAST Partners with Facebook to Stop Malware-Infected Link Sharing

Oct 16, 2012

AVAST Philosophy of Giving Expanded to Include Philanthropy

Sep 17, 2012

AVAST Android Anti-Theft and Security App Passes 10 Million

Aug 29, 2012

AVAST, the best-rated Android antivirus app, brings new features

Aug 20, 2012

avast! Free Antivirus outperformed all free and a number of paid-for antivirus products in AV-TEST’s latest Dynamic Test.

Jul 20, 2012

AVAST Software: Endpoint Protection sized for your business needs

Jun 4, 2012

avast! Free Antivirus for Mac tops CNET’s download.com in 3 days

May 17, 2012

AVAST Software Receives VB100 Award

May 15, 2012

Alternative app marketplaces prove profitable for cybercriminals

May 14, 2012

avast! Free Antivirus for Mac is here

Apr 27, 2012

AVAST Software Promo: Win a magnificent 7 days with avast!

Mar 15, 2012

Download.com, the world’s largest downloading site, awards AVAST

Mar 15, 2012

avast! Free Mobile Security gets top AV-Test ranking for Android malware

Mar 9, 2012

AVAST Software: New avast! 7 extends virtualization “sandbox”

Mar 6, 2012

AVAST Software: The new avast! 7 Internet Security puts a premium on virtualization

Feb 28, 2012

AVAST Software: The new avast! 7 Free Antivirus is here

Feb 23, 2012

AVAST Software: avast! 7 makes helping others easier with Remote Assistance tool

Feb 16, 2012

AVAST Foundation: Be Cool with Maths

Feb 15, 2012

AVAST Software: Detection is faster when FileRep knows all the clean files

Feb 13, 2012

avast! Free Mobile Security tops Norton in PC Welt

Feb 10, 2012

Romania makes it 30 countries in the Million User Club

Feb 9, 2012

AVAST Software: Streaming updates for all with the new avast! 7

Feb 8, 2012

PC Actual: Our readers prefer avast! Free Antivirus

Feb 2, 2012

190 millionth registered avast! user – and her friend – wins trip to Prague

Jan 30, 2012

AVAST Software: Online game sites can be cute, pink, and infected

Jan 12, 2012

avast! Free Mobile Security: over one million users in 16 days

Jan 6, 2012

avast! Free Mobile Security: the best Android protection you can’t buy

Dec 22, 2011

AVAST Software establishes mobile setting in Austria

Dec 22, 2011

AVAST Software Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering

Dec 21, 2011

avast! BackUp: Every memory has its price

Nov 23, 2011

AVAST Software: 160 millionth user on her way to Prague

Nov 10, 2011

WordPress plugin leads to malware blackhole

Oct 31, 2011

AVAST Software launches password manager

Oct 6, 2011

Hackers flip filenames to create “safe” file extensions

Sep 7, 2011

AVAST Software: Superglue site stuck with malware

Aug 10, 2011

XP remains fertile breeding ground for cyber infection

Jul 28, 2011

AVAST launches new avast! Business Protection

Jul 19, 2011

Six out of every ten users run vulnerable versions of Adobe Reader

Jul 13, 2011

Expand your language skills with avast!

Jun 20, 2011

AVAST Software: brides beware, malware can cost you – but computer protection is free

Jun 7, 2011

AVAST releases new Mac antivirus beta

Jun 1, 2011

avast! Virus Lab discovers new PDF trick - malware in black and white

Apr 27, 2011

Californian woman follows dream to become new avast! voice

Apr 26, 2011

AVAST Software: Twenty years in pursuit of malware

Apr 21, 2011

AVAST Software Takes the Reins of the 2011 CARO Workshop

Apr 19, 2011

avast! Free Antivirus wins 12th straight VB100 award

Apr 11, 2011

AVAST Software: Pirates jump ship, join lawyers – Vatican goes legal

Apr 1, 2011

Malware skips death and taxes, prefers games

Mar 23, 2011

New avast! Free: 7.0 reasons to give your old antivirus the boot

Feb 23, 2011

avast! 7.0 will let users create their own safe space in a dangerous world

Feb 21, 2011

Exploring the “Trust Phenomenon” – 5 million infections and rising

Feb 17, 2011

AVAST Software will add reputation analysis to the upcoming 7.0

Feb 7, 2011

AVAST Software: How to lose a million customers with malware

Jan 31, 2011

avast! 7.0 will bring automatic virtualization technology to all free users

Jan 24, 2011

AVAST Software releases its new 5.1 antivirus

Jan 10, 2011

Don’t pay a high price for a cold turkey

Jan 7, 2011

AVAST wins a VB100 award and a free weekend

Dec 9, 2010

AVAST Software: Over 770,000 pirates plus 2 in the Vatican

Dec 6, 2010

Four Reasons Why Malware Loves E-Shopping

Nov 23, 2010

AVAST: Kroxxu botnet infects 100,000 domains without a money trail

Nov 18, 2010

23,000 reasons to mute your avast! antivirus

Nov 15, 2010

AutoRun for malware:<br />One out of every eight attacks comes via a USB device

Nov 3, 2010

AVAST Software taps Mailshell to protect its users from spam and phishing

Oct 18, 2010

avast! Server Edition: Racing to the finish line

Oct 14, 2010

Gamers are ‘fair game’ for infected websites

Oct 7, 2010

Fast, Accurate - and Free

Sep 24, 2010

avast! Free Antivirus is a suite performer

Sep 21, 2010

AVAST Software crosses the 130 million user threshold

Sep 14, 2010

AVAST software warns students to protect their computers from infected education-related websites

Sep 8, 2010

Avast Suite Award: Highest performance rating for avast! Internet Security

Aug 25, 2010

Growth Equity Investor Summit Partners Invests $100 Million in AVAST Software

Aug 23, 2010

avast! antivirus delivers results for free

Aug 13, 2010

Computer protection available for the vision-impaired

Aug 12, 2010

Sports fans beware of AVAST Software’s second “America’s most wanted” list

Jul 27, 2010

World Cup threatens more than just your ears

Jun 30, 2010

Legitimate websites "outscore" the adult 99:1

Jun 28, 2010

avast! antivirus warns consumers to beware of "America's most wanted" websites

Jun 17, 2010

avast! Antivirus Server Edition wins a VB100

Jun 14, 2010

avast! Free Antivirus best rated by users in Germany

Jun 4, 2010

AVAST Software is the new company name

Jun 1, 2010

avast! receives Red Herring 100 Europe award

May 31, 2010

c't review puts avast! at the front of the free antivirus crowd

May 28, 2010

ALWIL Software is a finalist for the 2010 Red Herring 100 Europe Award

May 21, 2010

Avast!’s GMER technology gets top score in rootkit detection tests

May 5, 2010

Yes Minister, your website is infected

Apr 23, 2010

avast! now speaks 27 languages

Apr 20, 2010

avast! releases internet security forensics data from the web’s largest malware hunter community

Apr 15, 2010

avast! tops Russian download charts

Apr 9, 2010

avast! Free tops the paid competition to get “A+” rating

Mar 24, 2010

Online ads put web users at risk to viruses

Mar 16, 2010

Eduard Kucera of ALWIL Software nominated as World Entrepreneur Of The Year

Feb 10, 2010

Be free with the new avast!

Jan 19, 2010

Ireland wins avast! 1 in 100 million match with France

Dec 8, 2009

avast! wins top CNET recommendation

Dec 7, 2009

avast! wins “advanced +” from AV-Comparatives

Nov 27, 2009

avast! antivirus earns the Windows 7 logo

Sep 10, 2009

avast! tops AV Comparatives test

Aug 23, 2009

Another VB100 Award for avast! Professional Edition

Aug 5, 2009

Vince Steckler to Lead Global Expansion of Alwil Software

Jul 8, 2009

avast! celebrates 80 million registered users

May 18, 2009

More votes of confidence for avast!

Feb 21, 2009

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