Who we are

ALWIL Software is a Czech-based company from Prague, established in April 1991. It develops and is a vendor of the award-winning avast! antivirus. As a global company, we have partners all around the world who contribute to the continuous development and improvement of our products and provide technical support to our clients in their native language. Due to our global expansion, ALWIL Software has become the number one rated product in a number of key markets with a continously growing market share since its first international release.

What we do

The company specializes in security software, with avast! antivirus being the flagship product line. The avast! antivirus range offers complete protection against viruses and spyware for both home users and businesses. All the avast! products are developed entirely in-house by the ALWIL Software team at its head office in Prague, the Czech Republic. Currently our company offers avast! antivirus in over 30 language versions and technical support via our web site in 9 language versions.

ALWIL Software delivers a top quality solution providing complete protection for all types of platforms, from U3 devices, PDAs and desktops to servers. Also our developers continue to improve avast! products for compatibilty with OS products or hardware such as Linux and Mac desktops. The mission of the ALWIL team of talented security specialists is to deliver the best solution across the whole range of products to protect your data and programs from viruses in the wild. 

Our products have been available in the former Czechoslovakia since 1988, though during that time only in the Czech language. Since then, our operations have expanded globally to include such countries such as France, Spain, Poland, Germany, Portugal, and many other European countries, but also to more remote countries such as Brazil, the United States of America, Canada, Japan, Korea, China and Australia. During that time, avast! products have received a number of awards for their quality.