AVG Anti-virus Product Promotion

You have heard of the term BOGO, well AVG is offering a third year upgrade to your purchase of a new Business Class Business Product, either new or a renewal to your contract. You will qualify for a third year free if you purchase two years of any of AVG’s Business Internet Security Products. When you buy the second year you get 50% off of the 1 year price for the second year now the discount is even better!

This promotion is lasting until the end of the year, 2009.

Have you encountered issues with your clients becoming infected due to missing Windows Updates or social engineering tricks that infect their workstations?  AVG Internet Security products have several unique innovative features that prevent this from happening.  They protect not only against virus attack but also poisoned web pages and threats not included in the definitions via behavioral analysis.  So they not only block users from downloading threats they also scan web links in Search Engines for the poisoned content.

Two key features that differentiate AVG Internet Security Network products from other products:

• Linkscanner Technology:  Protects you against poisoned web pages before you visit them
• Identity Theft Protection: Intelligent real-time protection that looks for new threats based on unusual patterns of behavior, complementing the signature - based protection afforded by the AV/AS engine.

Other features include:

Webshield technology:  Looks for threats while you browse in real-time.

• FREE upgrades to the latest major version releases of AVG during the license period, including version 9.0 due this year.
• Unlimited domestic technical support
• Easy install and deployment – Install it stand-alone or managed, your choice.
• Anti-spam component at no cost in the Email Server Editions and SBS products

To order, be sure to contact Computer Connections by dialing 800-640-7506 or by emailing us at: sales@paconnect.com.

To see more information about AVG for Business Users visit: http://bobstechtalk.squarespace.com/solutions/2009/8/25/avg-for-business-users.html

SoftPerfect Free Download Utilities

SoftPerfect makes quite a few utility programs for working with your PC’s and Network Devices. They have several free utilities that are interesting that they hope will wet your appetite to purchase their more advanced paid versions of their software. Here are a couple of their free ones:

	SoftPerfect ® NetWorx FREE A simple, yet powerful utility for measuring your bandwidth usage and the speed of all kinds of wired and wireless network connections (Dial-up, Ethernet, ISDN, DSL, 802.11b etc.). The program provides the ability to measure your network throughput, graphic and numeric representation of incoming and outgoing traffic, highly customizable alerts, statistics about dialup connection duration, weekly, daily and monthly Internet usage reports, etc.
	SoftPerfect ® LAN Search Pro FREE A powerful utility for fast file searching across your LAN. You can search for specific file names or for specific file types (e.g. all MP3 files). It comes with a built-in password manager to store your network logins for resources with restricted access. LAN Search Pro provides a lightning fast search engine that lets you search hidden network resources, restricted access resources, IP subnets, LAN FTP servers and much more.
	SoftPerfect ® Network Scanner FREE A multi-threaded IP, SNMP and NetBIOS scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users who are interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and displays which types of resources are shared on the network (including system and hidden). In addition, it allows you to mount shared resources as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more.
	SoftPerfect ® Personal Firewall FREE A free network firewall designed to protect your PC against attacks from the Internet or via a local area network. SoftPerfect Personal Firewall offers customizable security using user-defined rules for packet filtering. It supports multiple network adapter configurations. The program is easy to use, comes with a set of predefined rules and it is completely free. Additional features include password protection, logging and more
	SoftPerfect ® File Recovery FREE A free and useful tool to restore accidentally deleted files from hard and floppy disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports the popular file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 with compression and encryption.

Goodbye SoapBox

I know that I am a little late in reporting this, but if you have been following my blogs since the beginning of this odyssey, you may remember that some of my early reasons for using Microsoft’s Live Spaces for blogging were because of the integration of all the different applications and the ability to easily share this data between those applications. Well, SOAPBOX has succumbed to the almighty Google and YouTube. Of course, now the ease of interacting with YouTube with the applications I use on a daily basis makes this a no brainer to have already made the move but it is still sad to see a system bite the dust even if it wasn't used much. So here is a raise of my glass to a program that worked just fine but didn’t have the recognition that it could’ve had.