Are you guys preparing for a war on malware in February 2015? I haven’t seen such a massive spike in number of added definitions for a while. 
Statistic https://www.avast.com/en-eu/stats
VPS https://www.avast.com/en-eu/virus-update-history yepp, big
It’s ginormous 
It’s an excellent thing that Avast has detected such a large number of malware and it’s helping their customers to be protected from it. No doubt and question that Avast is truly our number 1 antivirus :). Every day, every week, every month, and every year Avast keeps on getting better and better