ashlee’s Comments

• Dec 13th, 2010 @ 1:24am

  This was a great viral marketing campaign for avast.

  on Avast Claims Single Pro License Installed 774,651 Times Around The Globe
  Around 770,000 user systems are/were sending mutiples of emails daily with a footer message with a web link direct to http://www.avast.com/ as follows;
  
  avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean.
  Virus Database (VPS): 9/12/2010
  Tested on: 10/12/2010 7:51:19 AM
  avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2010 AVAST Software.
  
  Avast chose to let this run for almost 18mths and then gloat about how many pirated copies they "detected". Who's fault is that?
  
  Running a sting operation such as this does not help their credibility as reputable software vendor.