More votes of confidence for avast!

avast! has been awarded the "Advanced" rating in the latest round of testing by AV-Comparatives and voted "Best Bet" by PCWorld magazine.

The independent testing company AV-Comparatives carried out a series of tests of leading antivirus products during February. The testing was limited to 17 well-known, global antivirus products which had already performed well during previous testing. This round of testing used a much tougher set of test criteria but despite this, avast! still received an "Advanced" rating.

According to the report issued by AV-Comparatives, "a good detection rate is still one of the most important, deterministic and reliable features of an antivirus product." With an overall detection rate of over 98%, avast! was ranked among the leading antivirus products for its detection of virus malware along with other well-known paid products, and also had the third fastest scanning speed of all the products tested.

The results of such tests show that time after time, avast! antivirus consistently outperforms many of the leading paid antivirus products on the market. Full details can be found on the AV-Comparatives website.

This month, avast! Home Edition was also voted "Best Bet" among free security tools by PCWorld magazine.