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US schools gain from 5 million free enterprise-grade licenses

We’re really excited by the popularity of our Free for Education program. It’s growing so much that we recently reached the 5 million milestone for the number of free licenses issues. This means that over 1/10 computers in schools, libraries and charities in the US could be protected by our enterprise-grade antivirus for FREE already! […]

Top 10 questions about AVAST Free for Education

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The AVAST Free for Education team spent a week in Orlando, Florida at one of the country’s premier educational technology conferences, FETC. School administrators, IT professionals, media specialists, and educators visited our comfy booth, all curious about what the world’s most trusted antivirus software company was doing there. Here’s a run-down of the Top 10 […]

Top 10 questions about AVAST Free for Education

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The AVAST Free for Education team spent a week in Orlando, Florida at one of the country’s premier educational technology conferences, FETC. School administrators, IT professionals, media specialists, and educators visited our comfy booth, all curious about what the world’s most trusted antivirus software company was doing there. Here’s a run-down of the Top 10 […]

Essentials packing list for FETC attendees

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The AVAST Free for Education team is excited to be attending FETC 2014 in Orlando, Florida for the first time! As part of our preparations we’ve been making an essentials packing list, which we thought we’d share with you… Personal essentials Comfy spring clothes We checked the weather report and were excited to see that it’s going to […]

The top 5 things we need to know for our trip to Florida

The team that runs AVAST Free for Education is excited to be attending this year’s Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC 2014) in Orlando, Florida, but also a little nervous about what to expect. Here’s the top 5 things we have been alerted to about our trip to The Sunshine State – Florida, USA! 1. Everything […]

Forget fundraising! Your school can win $25,000 with AVAST Free for Education

Forget bake sales, dinner events, auctions, and school carnivals. Protect your school community‘s computers with avast! Free Antivirus and win $25,000 for your school! The AVAST Free for Education  program has given over 3.5 million free business-grade antivirus software licenses to schools, school districts, universities, and colleges in the USA. Now we are asking those […]

EDUCAUSE 2013

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AVAST Free for Education is proud to sponsor some of the featured sessions at this years EDUCAUSE, which will be taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center, in Anaheim California from Tuesday, October 15th until Friday, October 18th. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through the use of information […]

Free for Education protects almost 200 universities and colleges

The AVAST Free for Education is not only available for schools, school districts and libraries in the US, but also for US universities! To date, 200 universities and colleges across 47 different states benefit from AVAST’s FREE business-grade antivirus. This means that a total of almost 450,000 university computers are being protected, for FREE. We […]

How California’s gone FREE for Education

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Recently we announced reaching 3 million issued licenses under the AVAST Free for Education program. From all the US, California ranked first in terms of free licenses. California, the third-largest state by area and number one by population, seems also to want number one in terms of education. Since our AVAST Free for Education program launched in […]

3 million licenses issued for AVAST Free for Education

We’re really excited to announce that we’ve just reached the 3 million mark for number of licenses we’ve issued on the AVAST Free for Education program! Some 2500 schools, libraries, universities and other educational institutions in the USA are benefiting from this program by receiving free business-grade antivirus protection. The AVAST Free for Education league […]