Question of the week: I have been recommending avast! Antivirus to my friends for years. Now I see that you are giving away up to $10,000 for the person with the most recommendations. When you ask for “creative” ways to recommend (to win $1000), just what are you looking for?

Thanks for the helpful question. To celebrate our 25th anniversary and reaching the 200 million users milestone, we are giving away $26,000 to AVAST users who share with their friends and family! I’ll explain more about it below, but let’s first answer your question.

We know that there are people among our 200 million users with wonderful talents. Songwriters, actors, artists, fashion designers, bakers, film-makers, dancers – you name it – in our community, we have them all. We asked those creative minds to think of new ways to recommend avast! Antivirus. We want to showcase those talents and reward the 10 best with $1000 each. Here’s an example from Arun P. He obviously has quite a talent for making videos, so he used it to recommend avast!.

Another avast! user, Fiordi D., has a talent for writing poetry.

Somewhere in the sky,
I can see…
It’s Avast,
Be free!

Surfing the internet,
Full of security,
Giving wonderfully,
All of it’s beauty!

Protect your computer,
Keep it running fast,
Download Avast antivirus now,
And get an a-vast!

Now, there’s nothing left to say,
Just download Avast and keep out of fear,
I want to wish you all,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
-With Avast.

So come up with an idea, and share the result. You can mail us a picture, a link, a video, a sound-file, whatever…to referrals@avast.com.

There’s lots more money to be given away!

You can also simply do what you’ve always done – share avast! Antivirus with your friends and family (let’s hope you have lots of cousins!). But now, make sure it counts.

Set up a free AVAST Account to participate. If you don’t have one, just click here. Use the unique link that you get from the “Recommend” tab, and send invitations via social media or email. You can even make posters with your link and hang them on telephone poles!

Whatever you do, when your friends install avast! Antivirus using your link, then you get credit. You’ll win a free 1 -year license for avast! Internet Security when you get 7 friends, but you’ll also be in the running for a CASH prize. The top recommender on each continent will get $1000. The top overall recommender – the one who gets the most friends, classmates, work colleagues, or family members –  will win a whopping $10,000.

What would you do with $10,000?

Start recommending avast! Antivirus, so we can get everyone in the world protected, and you could find out!

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