Home Anti-Virus Protection

A computer 'virus' is a type of computer program, much like any other, except that it usually has the ability to damage your data, and more often than not it is usually designed to do just that.

There are many reasons why viruses are so abundant and there are a vast amount of computer specialists who think nothing of causing problems for other people. No doubt some will even think that if you haven't taken steps to protect yourself, you deserve what you get.

Virus programs are written and then usually disguised so that it can be delivered to you in a way you won't notice - such as an e-mail attachment. You look at the mail, open the attachment to see what it is, and all of a sudden your computer is infected and your important data is at risk.

It is impossible to stop all viruses, but modern software can stop 99.99% of them. Any viruses it doesn't know about at present, it almost certainly will know about within a week. When your anti-virus system is installed, it can be regularly updated over the Internet, on a daily basis if necessary, to keep it as fully up-to-date as possible.

There are a number of well-known vendors of commercial e-mail virus scanning software such as McAfee, Sophos, Norton, Trend and Panda. However for the home there are numerous free anti virus products available that, with the correct configuration can offer similar levels of protection to the commercial versions.

Installing an Anti Virus package is not the end of the problem though. For Anti Virus software to be effective, it must be kept up to date with the latest virus signatures. Whenever a new virus is released on the Internet, you should be checking your software vendor to firstly see if they know about the threat, and second, to see if they have new virus signatures for you to download.

Full Home Anti-Virus Solutions

Solid IT can help totally secure your home computers and home network, to help shield them from any damaging virus. Our anti-virus services include automatic scanning of every file as it is accessed on your computer or network, automatic scanning of new disks and regular maintenance.

Services also include cleaning of infected computers and home networks, data recovery and assistance even in the most severe cases.

Solid IT offers full installations of all major antivirus products for your home networks and desktops, email scanning, remotely managed antivirus solutions

Having this level of virus protection ensures

You have the latest antivirus software correctly configured on all your home machines.

Every service from e-mail, file sharing and even floppy disks is automatically guarded from virus attack.

You are downloading the latest antivirus signatures and engines to keep on top of the latest viruses.

You are kept informed of risks, developments and trends within the antivirus sector.

Antivirus Solutions for Email

The best way to protect your home computers and network from viruses is to stop them before they even reach you. Solid IT offers a service that will divert your in-bound e-mail to a specially built virus scanning host using various commercial virus scanners in sequence. If any of the scanners detect a virus, the e-mail is then quarantined, you are then informed that a virus was detected and told who the sender was.