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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #45 on: February 18, 2006, 01:23:40 AM »
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WooHooo!!! Congratulations to all at Awil Software!    :D    8)  

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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #46 on: February 24, 2006, 07:43:07 PM »
Congratulations to Avast, I saw the news today (it actually popped up - cute). :)

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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #47 on: February 24, 2006, 07:46:17 PM »
Congratulations!

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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #48 on: February 24, 2006, 08:35:01 PM »
Hi Alwil Team members,

Well deserved. A loud proficiat.

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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #49 on: February 24, 2006, 09:09:53 PM »
AWESOME! CONGRATULATIONS!

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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #50 on: February 24, 2006, 09:52:26 PM »
Congratulations

ALWIL Software is proud to announce that it has won the prestigious SC Readers Choice Awards for best Antivirus (avast!) for the USA section of the award event. (http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_wins_sc_award.html)

The European awards UK ceremony (for which avast! is also nominated) will take place at the Grosvenor House, London, UK on the 25th April 2006.
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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #51 on: February 25, 2006, 12:51:37 AM »
Hello avast! forum members,

I am very impressed and happy with Alwil Software. Keep up the good work, and keep whipping McAfee and Norton!

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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #52 on: February 25, 2006, 01:58:13 AM »
Many Many Congratulations to the Alwit Avast Software Team

Good  to see hard work rewarded well done!


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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #53 on: February 25, 2006, 05:39:42 AM »
Congratulations!

It was no suprise to me Avast is second to none in my Humble oppion.

Alwil Software is no 1

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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #54 on: February 25, 2006, 11:44:06 AM »
Congratulations!


Keep up the good work.  ;). Norton and macfee is going down!. We going to rule the world!.  ;D

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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #55 on: February 26, 2006, 03:38:21 AM »
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Hmmm ... I guess we will never know Vlk's funny story from November.    ???    ;)


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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #56 on: February 26, 2006, 09:25:12 AM »
OK, here's the funny story: sending out the iNews message (asking people to vote for us) resulted in such a big traffic that their server crashed. And as soon as they restarted it (about 8 hours later), it crashed again. And again. And again. So after two days, they simply had to remove avast (the whole page refering to avast was deleted).
 
Avast got about 200,000+ votes in those two days, whereas a typical figure for a competitor's product was something like 5,000 votes during the whole 3-week voting period. ;D And these 200,000+ votes were submitted at the moment the server was actually up (instead of just returning the "Service unavailable" message - which cuts down the voting time to some 8-12 hours netto?).
 
Next day, I called them, asking why they removed us. They explained to me what I just said, and pretty much confirmed that we have already WON (but pleeeaaase, keep the user mass from our server now ;D).


But that was just the finalist round (I mean, we won the nomination and moved to the finale). However, the results of the finale were not, in any way, influenced by the results of the first round (public voting) - so it was quite a BIG surprise for us that avast has actually won the prize. In fact, it was such a big surprise that we didn't attend the gala event (we assumed that our chances of winning are so miniscule that it's pointless to go there). Well, you see, sometimes it pays to be optimistic (but it was probably still better than to go but not win).


Of course, with the US prize in our pocket we're looking forward to the European round (April) - we'll definitely not miss that (although I won't be there as I'm in the US at that time...). :)


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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #57 on: February 26, 2006, 01:16:45 PM »
So what they basicaly do is counting those votes... not by evaluating the true worthiness of all those product listed over there... hmmm, it's quite easy to manipulate those things.

I wonder how much we can relly on all those results, all those programs in a real life... aside form these numbers
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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #58 on: February 26, 2006, 01:29:13 PM »
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Re: SC Magazine awards 2006.
« Reply #59 on: February 26, 2006, 02:02:56 PM »
So what they basicaly do is counting those votes... not by evaluating the true worthiness of all those product listed over there... hmmm, it's quite easy to manipulate those things.

I wonder how much we can relly on all those results, all those programs in a real life... aside form these numbers
Fully agree... seems that the users are just being used here...  :P
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