Avast

  1. 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.
  2. Launch year: 1988
  3. Company Name: Avast Software
  4. Headquarters: Prague, Czechoslovakia 
  5. Founder(s): Pavel Baudis and Eduard kucera
  6. Total Number of Avast employees: 1,800+
  7. How many people use Avast: 400 million+ average users
  8. Revenue:  US $ 871.1 million
  9. Weekly active users: 9 million
  10. Attack prevented:  1.5 billion per month
  11. Active customers: 435  million
  12. Number of organizations that use Avast: 859 Companies
  13. Number of countries that Avast has user: 59 Countries
  14. Top Country  for Avast usage: United States
  15. Available Languages:  45 Languages
  16. Funding raised so far: USD 100 million
  17. Valuation: USD 2865.9  million
  18. Top 5 Competitors or similar products:  Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, Eset, Bitdefender, Fortinet
  19. Avast means: To Stop, Cease or Halt
  20. 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.
  21. Free plan: Avast gives 30 days trial plan with a high end protection
  22. What makes Avast interesting: Easy to Download, Freeware including fully functional antivirus, antispyware, and heuristics engines.
  23. Awards: Winner of 5 Advanced+ awards for lowest impact on PC performance, Rated #1 best SMB cybersecurity software of 2019 by Techradar
  24. 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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