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!
Since November 2012 we have given avast! Endpoint Protection Suite, a product which is already purchased by many businesses worldwide, to education institutions in the USA for FREE. Over 4500 institutions have been granted a license for their network, savings schools on average $14,000 per year in antivirus license fees – freeing up much needed budget which can be better spent on other equipment to benefit your students. We’ve recently heard how one school will be putting their savings towards buying tablets for the classroom – a great investment for future technology.
When you consider what little funding this program has for advertising and promotion (after all, it’s a free project), the numbers we’ve achieved are huge and we hope the program continues this way and more and more schools can benefit from this.
How does a school get avast! Endpoint Protection Suite for free? It’s easy – apply here: www.avast.com/education I personally review and check all applications that come in to verify eligibility – so keep them coming!
Is avast! Free for students? AVAST Free for Education protects you at school and avast! Free Antivirus protects you at home. Students and their parents can use avast! Free Antivirus to help protect their school network further from outside threats. Download from: www.avast.com/students