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AVG signs Wintek Nordic Group AS

First Nordic Region distribution agreement for leading information security vendor


Czech Republic 26th March, 2008 - AVG Technologies,  www.avg.com a leading provider of Internet Security software, today announced the appointment of its official Nordic distributor for the market in Norway.

“We’re delighted to finally have a way to work more closely with our customers and prospects in the Nordic Region,” said Petter Lautin, AVG’s vice president of sales for EMEA. “We look forward to significantly increasing our business in this important market, particularly with the newly-released AVG 8.0 products for business and home users.”

Wintek Nordic Group a member of the Profitek group, has more than 130 channel partners, and is a fast-growing information security solution provider in Norway. At the end of 2007, the company decided to widen its product portfolio and made the decision to add a security solution.

“We are looking forward to formally introducing AVG 8.0 to the market here through our reseller network,” said Wintek technical manager Jarle Avloyp.“The product is already very well known here, thanks to the high quality of the products and great support from the people at AVG.”

The AVG 8.0 products were launched last month and are designed to protect home and business users against current and future threats without impacting system performance, a task made significantly easier by the completely-redesigned user interface and inclusion of the handy AVG Security Toolbar. The real-time protection of the new AVG Active Surf-Shield and Search-Shield, acquired through the purchase of Exploit Prevention Labs last year, provide protection against the latest web-borne threats that deliver drive-by downloads and other stealthy attacks.

About Wintek Nordic Group AS:

Wintek Nordic Group was founded in 2006 by experienced IT specialists to offer quality IT solutions such as digital signing, internal communications, remote control, thin clients, and data recovery, to Nordic resellers. After a very successful year, in the summer of 2007 Wintek was partly acquired by Profitek AS; under Profitek’s wings, the company has built a large network of resellers across Norway. Wintek resellers look after some of the biggest companies in Norway.

About AVG Technologies:

www.avg.com
Founded in 1991 and headquartered in the Czech Republic, AVG is a leading international developer of Internet threat protection solutions for consumers, SMBs and small enterprises. AVG protects more than 70 million computer users around the world. The company has regional offices in North America and the United Kingdom, and employs some of the world’s leading experts in Internet security, specifically in the areas of threat research, analysis and detection. AVG’s award-winning products are distributed globally through resellers and over the Internet as well as via third parties through Software Developer’s Kits (SDK).

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For more detailed information please contact:

Markéta Pudilová
PR Manager WW
AVG Technologies
Tel: +420 549 524 011
Fax: +420 549 524 396
E-mail: marketa.pudilova@avg.com
www.avg.com

Daniel Carlsson-Mård
PR Manager Norway
Cloudberry Communications
Tel: +46 (0)8 551 112 10
E-mail: daniel@cloudberry.se

Helge Mardal, CEO
Wintek Nordic Group AS
Tel: +47 55 200 700
E-mail: helge@wintek.no