We are always looking for products and solutions that bring the best possible profits or advantages for the lowest possible costs to recommend to our clients. Here you will find some of our findings.
Protecting your computer
Your computer needs to be protected from external threats, such as software that invade your computer system in order to get private information, provoke failures or damage it (anti-virus) and other computers (firewall).
Reducing call costs
More and more, people need to work together with people that are physically distant. Quite often they need answer to their question in a very short period of time. Skype and Microsoft Windows Live Messenger are the most known software.
Accessing a PC remotely
Sometimes we need to view and fully interact with our clients’ computers. We do this by controlling them remotely. There are many products that allow you to do this.
Anti-virus
AVG Anti-virus Free Edition 7.5 – Grisoft
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/downloads?prd=aff Go to http://free.grisoft.com for more AVG free products.
ClamWin Free Anti-virus 0.92 (Microsoft Windows Version)
http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/18/46/
ClamAV™ Free Anti-virus 0.92 (Unix Version) http://www.clamav.net/
ClamXav Free Anti-virus 1.1.0 (Mac OS X Version) http://www.clamxav.com/
Trend Micro's FREE online virus scanner – TREND Micro™
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Panda ActiveScan with TruPrevent™ 5.54.01 (free online virus scanner)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/activescan/ascan_2.asp
FortiClient – Fortinet
http://www.fortinet.com/products/forticlient.html
“FortiClient PC Consumer Edition is a unified security agent for Windows-based personal computers that integrates five critical security functions into a single agent: personal firewall, antivirus, antispyware, antispam and Web filtering. FortiClient is powered by FortiGuard security update services to ensure the best possible protection from ever-evolving malware, network-based and blended threats” (read more https://shop.fortinet.com/Showpage.do?page=description)
Firewall
ZoneAlarm® - Check Point
http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/home.jsp
Chats, Calls and Text Messages
Skype is a VoIP instant messenger. It allows you to exchange text to one or more people, to call other Skype user, to access the public telephone network via your computer for a small cost, and to send text message to a mobile. http://www.skype.com
Microsoft Windows Live Messenger is also an instant messenger where the users can chat to one or more people and call other user. http://get.live.com/messenger/overview
Remote Control
Microsoft Windows Live messenger is not just a tool for chatting or talking, it also provides a feature that allows a user to access a remote PC to assist in fixing a problem. http://get.live.com/messenger/overview
RealVNC – VNC Free Edition 4.1
http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/index.html The only issue with VNC is that it works better if the remote PC has a fixed IP address.
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