How to make sure you’re using a reputable seller
You can tell a lot by the look and feel of a website if you’re worried about its authenticity . It is professionally presented? Do all the links work properly? Is there a contact address and phone number? It can be worth calling any published phone numbers to check that its real, manned number. Feedback on review sites such as Pricerunner (www.pricerunner.co.uk) can also help, but beware of sites whose feedback is too good to be true.
A simple package that combines two detection engines for maximum efficacy
German security specialist G Data has been producing anti-virus software for over 20 years, but there’s nothing retro about anti virus 2008.
Open it up and you see a basic user interface giving direct access to the main functions (starting and scheduling scans and updates), as well as a few information panels. Click on “Options” and you can set some default behaviors and toogle options like heuristics. As with Spyware Doctor . the emphasis is on practically.
An old favourite gets a new look.
Now in version 8.0, AVG’s latest release appears to have taken a page or three form from Vista. A redesigned interface sports high-resolution icons and a more colorful palette, and even the system tray icon feels borrowed from Microsoft’s newest OS;turn off one of the security modules and the icon turns red, alerting you to impending doom, even if you’ve only disabled the spam filter. That’s just wacky. Thankfully, you can turn off the ominous notifications.
