PC security needs are changing rapidly. In the early days of PCs, viruses were prevalent and were just about the only threat to PC users. These days, malware (spyware, adware etc) is big business, written by criminals in order to make money - by selling bogus security products, pharmaceuticals (usually of dubious quality at best) or even stealing bank and other personal details. Innocent-looking web sites can contain automatically-downloaded malware (see the ‘Did you know?’ box on the left).

Smile IT has found that AVG Internet Security is among the best products at detecting and stopping these threats, the latest version containing a dedicated Webshield product along with a Safe Search toolbar which checks web sites for infections while you browse the internet.

To find out more and to order AVG Internet Security, just call us, or e-mail us.

Did you know?

According to Google, 1 in 1000 Web pages is delivering some kind of malicious code, mainly in the form of exploits delivered by drive-by downloads. That translates to something like 70,000 poisoned pages ready and waiting to infect visitors on any given day.

Google also found that antivirus programs could not detect all of these threats. The best of them detected only 70% of the drive-by downloads. And in the case of the exploit shown in our latest video, users are actually blocked from contacting or downloading updates from antivirus companies.