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Avast Malware Removal

Antivirus version: Avast Internet Security 2016 Before I go over the steps showing how to uninstall Avast 2016, I have to provide you with some advice: Don't leave your computer unsecured, have an installation file for another antivirus software downloaded and ready.

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Using Avast and it found 1 infection on my mac, but I can't delete - posted in Virus, Spyware, Malware Removal: Hey everyone, I recently opened an.xls (Excel) file from an Upwork job opening and received an email from them that they believed my computer was infected by a virus as a result. I have downloaded and run Avast - done a full system scan.

Avast Software s.r.o.
Founders
Enterprise Office Center building, Avast headquarter in Prague
Alwil Software
Public
Traded as	LSE: AVST PSE: AVST
Industry	Computer security
Founded	1988; 31 years ago
Headquarters	,
Area served	Worldwide
John Schwarz (Chairman) Ondrej Vlcek (CEO)
Products	Security software
Revenue	US$808.3 million (2018)^[1]
US$415.3 million (2018)^[1]
US$241.2 million (2018)^[1]
Owners	Pavel Baudiš and Eduard Kučera (46%)^[2]
Number of employees	~1,800^[3] (2019)
Subsidiaries
Website	www.avast.com/index

Avast founders Eduard Kučera (left) and Pavel Baudiš (right) in 2016 with their spouses, who run the non-profit Avast Foundation for community development

Avast Software s.r.o. is a Czech multinationalcybersecurity software company headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic that researches and develops computer security software, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Avast has more than 435 million monthly active users^[3] and the largest market share among anti-malware application vendors worldwide as of January 2018.^[4] The company has approximately 1,700 employees across its 25 offices worldwide.^[3]

Avast was founded by Pavel Baudiš and Eduard Kučera in 1988 as a cooperative. It had been a private company since 2010 and had its IPO in May 2018. In July 2016, Avast acquired competitor AVG Technologies for $1.3 billion. At the time, AVG was the third-ranked antivirus product.^[5] It is dual-listed on the Prague Stock Exchange and on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.^[6]

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History[edit]

Avast was founded by Eduard Kučera and Pavel Baudiš in 1988.^[7] The founders met each other at the Research Institute for Mathematical Machines in Czechoslovakia.^[7] They studied math and computer science, because the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia would require them to join the communist party to study physics.^[7] At the Institute, Pavel Baudiš discovered the Vienna virus on a floppy disk and developed the first program to remove it.^[7]^[8]^[9] Afterwards, he asked Eduard Kucera to join him in cofounding Avast as a cooperative.^[8] The cooperative was originally called Alwil and only the software was named Avast.^[10]

The cooperative was changed to a joint partnership in 1991, two years after the velvet revolution^[11] caused a regime change in Czechoslovakia. The new regime severed ties with the Soviet Union and reverted the country's economic system to a market economy.^[8]^[10] In 1995, Avast employee Ondřej Vlček wrote the first antivirus program for the Windows 95 operating system.^[8] In the 1990s security researchers at the Virus Bulletin, an IT security testing organization, gave the Avast an award in every category tested, increasing the popularity of the software.^[8] However, by the late 1990s, the company was struggling financially.^[7] Alwil rebuffed acquisition offers by McAfee, who was licensing the Avast antivirus engine.^[7]

By 2001, Alwil was experiencing financial difficulties, when it converted to a freemium model, offering a base Avast software product at no cost.^[8] As a result of the freemium model, the number of users of the software grew to one million by 2004^[8] and 20 million by 2006.^[10] Former Symantec executive Vince Steckler was appointed CEO of Avast in 2009.^[12] In 2010, Alwil changed its name to Avast, adopting the name of the software,^[10] and raised $100 million in venture capital investments.^[13] The following December, Avast filed for an initial public offering, but withdrew its application the following July, citing changes in market conditions.^[14] In 2012, Avast fired its outsourced tech support service iYogi, after it was discovered that iYogi was using misleading sales tactics to persuade customers to buy unnecessary services.^[15] By 2013, Avast had 200 million users in 38 countries and had been translated into 43 languages.^[7] At the time, the company had 350 employees.^[16]

In 2014, CVC Capital bought an interest in Avast for an undisclosed sum. The purchase valued Avast at $1 billion.^[17]^[18] Later that year, Avast acquired mobile app developer Inmite in order to build Avast's mobile apps.^[19] Additionally, in 2014 Avast's online support forum was compromised, exposing 400,000 names, passwords, and email addresses.^[20]^[21] By 2015, Avast had the largest share of the market for antivirus software.^[14] In July 2016, Avast reached an agreement to buy AVG for $1.3 billion.^[22] AVG was a large IT security company that sold software for desktops and mobile devices.^[23] In July 2017, Avast acquired UK-based Piriform for an undisclosed sum. Piriform was the developer of CCleaner.^[24] Shortly afterwards it was disclosed that someone may have created a malicious version of CCleaner with a backdoor for hackers.^[25] Avast had its IPO on the London Stock Exchange in May 2018, which valued it at £2.4bn and was one of the UK’s biggest technology listings.^[26]

Ondrej Vlcek assumed the role of CEO and co-owner of Avast Plc in July 2019.^[27] A day later, he changed his annual pay to $1 and pledged his board director's compensation of $100,000 to charity.^[27]

Products[edit]

Avast develops and markets business and consumer IT security products for servers, desktops, and mobile devices.^[28] The company sells both the Avast product line and the acquired AVG-branded products.^[29] As of late 2017, the company had merged the AVG and Avast business product lines and were working to integrate the corporate departments from both companies.^[30] Additionally, Avast has developed utility software products to improve battery life on mobile devices, cleanup unnecessary files on a hard drive, find secure wireless networks^[31] or create a VPN connection to the internet.^[32]

Avast and AVG consumer security software are sold on a freemium model, where basic security features are free, but more advanced features require purchasing a premium version.^[29] The free version is also supported by ads.^[33] Additionally, all Avast users provide data about their PC or mobile device to Avast, which is used to identify new security threats.^[7] Antivirus scanning, browser clea

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