Why Avast!

IN A SENTENCE

The people’s choice

IN DETAIL

• POWER OF RECOMMENDATIONS: Two out of three new avast! Users say that they chose avast! Antivirus because of a friend’s recommendation. These community referrals come from both computer specialists and mainstream internet users pleased with the rock solid reliability of avast! Antivirus. In France, avast! Has over 200,000 reviews and 4-stars on ol.net

• VIRUS DETECTION: 130 million users plus means 130 million malware sensors. 1 billion cumulative virus reports per month are sent by millions of avast! Users who have chosen to be sentries in avast! Community IQ, catching samples of suspicious file activity and sending information on emerging online threats back to the avast! Virus Lab. This is highly relevant since 85% of all new viruses are spread over the internet. In so doing, avast! Users help avast! To identify new viruses and infected websites. As a matter of fact, 5 million infected domains were reported in the 12 months beginning from July 2009 and ending July 2010

• ACTIVE USERS: Courtesy of the community, avast! Free antivirus will continue to remain a great free product and will continue to remain so generating tremendous loyalty and an active userbase which, will in turn, contribute to making avast! An even more effective security tool. Although avast! Software is a commercial entity, avast! Antivirus software is a community development project on a global scale. Since avast! Does not pay for advertising as other antivirus firms do, but relies on its users to tell others about avast! Antivirus and to help make the product even better

• SUPPORT: Over 90% of support enquiries handled by community-based online support at the help forum. Thousands of volunteers provide support. All moderator volunteers are not paid by avast!

• LOCALIZATION: The vast majority of the 32 supported languages were/are localized by volunteers, as a matter of fact, avast! Software localized only 12


• VIRUS SIGNATURES: 3,000 virus signatures are added everyday

• Daily automatic updates
• Low system requirements so you can install on slow machines
• Expert sales assistance and technical support
• Comprehensive virus and spyware protection