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AVG Free 8.0 for the first time in Polish!
AVG unveils AVG Free 8.0, designed to fully address Polish users’ needs for basic protection against viruses, spyware, and web exploits. Enjoy safe and worry-free online experience now in Polish.

Amsterdam – December 9th, 2008 - AVG Technologies, a global Internet security software provider with over 85 million users in 167 countries, today announces the availability of the first Polish language version of its popular and widely-used AVG Free 8.0 security software. From now on, the Polish version of AVG 8.0 free may be downloaded from: Download Now .

“In AVG we believe that all users, regardless of income, should be able to protect their computers against the most common Internet threats,” said AVG Technologies’ chief executive officer JR Smith. “Our goal is to provide the most user friendly and most comprehensive free solution to the Polish users. That is why AVG Free 8.0 is now available in Polish.”

AVG Free 8.0 goes beyond the protection provided by other free security products to deliver just-in-time protection against drive-by downloads - invisible threats that can download malware onto a user’s computer without the user taking any action at all. This invisible infection process is the fastest-growing threat on the Internet today, and is widely used by organized criminals for identity theft and other commercial gain. These threats can be hidden in any type of website, and may remain on any given site for an hour, a day, or a week; the length of time a site remains infective often depends on how many visitors the site gets, as the criminals distributing the malware frequently have a target quota of information to steal.

The transient nature of these threats means they are impossible to track down using conventional anti-virus or anti-spyware products or, for that matter, most “safe-surfing” products. AVG’s unique Safe-Search protection is different because it protects users at the only time that matters – when they click on a url in a search results page. Users of Google, Yahoo and MSN searches will see a ‘danger – do not go here’ message when they try to access one of these poisoned pages. To make it even easier for users to protect themselves against these new threats, Safe-Search works with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers, and is incorporated into the new AVG Security Toolbar so it’s always at hand.

AVG’s commercial products have been available in Polish for several years, but this is the first time the company has released a localized version of the free product.

AVG Free 8.0 is intended for personal and non-commercial use on single computers running Windows 2000, XP or Vista. While AVG Technologies does not provide support for AVG Free 8.0, the company hosts a website and forum for user-driven support at http://free.avg.com.
About AVG Technologies

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AVG is a global security solutions leader protecting 85 million consumers and small business computer users in 167 countries from the ever-growing incidence of web threats, viruses, spam, cyber-scams and hackers on the Internet. Headquartered in Amsterdam, AVG has nearly two decades of experience in combating cyber crime and one of the most advanced laboratories for detecting, pre-empting and combating Web-borne threats from around the world. Its free online, downloadable software model allows entry-level users to gain basic anti-virus protection and then to easily and inexpensively upgrade to greater levels of safety and defense in both single and multi-user environments. Nearly 6,000 resellers, partners and distributors team with AVG globally including Amazon.com, CNET, Cisco, Ingram Micro, Play.com, Wal-Mart, and Yahoo!.