SOFTWIN, founded in 1990, is a software company based in Bucharest, Romania with offices in Tettnang (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), Fort Lauderdale (USA), London (Great Britain) and Copenhagen (Denmark). SOFTWIN is a private company and is the producer of the BitDefender anti-virus engine.Softwin competes in the antivirus industry against Avira, ESET, F-Secure, Kaspersky, McAfee, Sophos and Symantec among others.