Prague, Czech Republic - 29th March 2008 - for immediate release – ALWIL Software a.s. is pleased to announce the next major release of avast! antivirus, avast! 4.8.
avast! antivirus 4.8 is a major technology upgrade to the avast! product line, which includes the addition of anti-spyware detection, certified by West Coast Lab’s Checkmark process, and the implementation of anti-rootkit capabilities, all directly from within avast! antivirus.
Eduard Kucera, ALWIL Software a.s. CEO, said of the release, “While only an upgrade of avast!, this version represents a major evolution of the avast! offering to users. Many of our competitors charge extra for anti-spyware or anti-rootkit detection, or don’t add the functionality at all. We don’t think that a partial solution in scanning is a solution at all.” Mr. Kucera continues, “With this upgrade, we have once again shown outstanding innovation in the industry, by adding this functionality to the avast! core scan engine technology.”
avast! antivirus 4.8 is available now for download from www.avast.com and is available in three Editions. For non-commercial home use, avast! Home Edition is available free-of-charge. For commercial deployment avast! Professional Edition and for commercial home deployment avast! Professional Family Pack (available for up to ten computers and one Windows Home Server) can be downloaded for a free trial from www.avast.com, or directly purchased from the product page, or from any authorized avast! reseller.
The more than 50 million current avast! Home Edition or Professional Edition users need only upgrade their software, no need to download again, in most cases this will be fully automatic for most users. Other users can follow the update notification prompt to keep their software up-to-date. All licensed users will receive the program upgrade as part of their subscription (free or paid).