Young people need room for a second chance – but malware does not. With avast! antivirus keeping their computers safe from malware, the Elk Hill nonprofit in Virginia can focus on its core mission – giving children the space and conditions they need to develop into responsible adults.

The 60 computers at Elk Hill‟s facilities are widely used on a daily basis. while internet filters are in place to keep young people from straying too far, 100-percent vigilance is impossible. Even within the educational realm, there are infected and malicious web sites.

Dissatisfied with other antivirus programs – most recently AVG – Elk Hill set out to find a more effective solution. They purchased their avast! software licenses from Wheat Systems of Glen Allen, Virginia. “We deployed avast! from a central server at Elk Hill to all their machines,” said Chad Christianson, CIO at Wheat Systems. “It‟s really easy to use avast! from a single centralized server so they can monitor and clean up all computers.”

With avast!, the catastrophic waves of infection that used to occur on a regular basis have been eliminated, and a recent outbreak was limited to a single computer. Through it all, avast! kept all other machines safe, avoiding what could have been a major disruption and security risk. With their previous antivirus solutions, the results were significantly worse. “When they get a virus now, they can also see where it came from – a path,” explains Mr. Christianson. “It saves them IT costs.”