A guide to gaming with Apple
What gaming PC’s are on offer? Apple produce high end, high spec computers and the best one for gaming has to be the iMac. What features does it have? • 27-inch screen • 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 processor. • 4Gb of 1066MHz DDR3 RAM • 2Tb Serial ATA hard drive • ATI Radeon HD 4850 [...]
A guide to gaming with Sony
Sony gaming PCs The best Sony PCs for gaming are the VAIO FW Series or CW series notebooks. These laptops have been designed specifically with gamers in mind, and are currently available in unique futuristic and colourful designs as part of Sony’s winter Signature Collection. What features do they? The Sony VAIO VGN-FW590FFD comes with [...]
TA Associates invest in AVG
Leading private equity firm, TA Associates, recently made a substantial investment in AVG Technologies. TA has funded companies such as BMC Software and McAfee and has now decided to buy a stake in the ever-growing AVG Technologies. The $200 million deal will see the addition of another minority investor to the ownership which also includes [...]
New Chairman for AVG
After serving on the board of directors for over a year, Dale Fuller has been appointed AVG Technologies permanent Chairman of the Board. The new appointment gives high hopes for company growth, as Fuller’s previous successes with companies such as McAfee, Borland and Phoenix Technologies shows. In his new role, Fuller will help prepare the [...]
LinkScanner® foils social network hackers
Members of social networking sites such as Twitter, Digg and Facebook have fallen victim to hackers who have hidden malicious links behind shortened URLs, but AVG has come to the rescue. AVG LinkScanner® can detect these poisoned pages through its real-time tests. This utility is free and can be downloaded via the AVG website. Image [...]
AVG keep small businesses safe
AVG has recently released their line of anti virus software designed for the protection of small businesses. The AVG Internet Security Business Edition 9.0 and AVG Antivirus Business Edition 9.0 offer improved levels of speed, protection and ease of use to suit companies without in-house technicians. BS Magazine even named AVG Internet Security Small Business [...]
Desktop Maestro
Desktop Maestro is designed to optimise your PC’s performance with a range of tools. Registry Cleaner is the first component of Maestro and one of the most useful. Windows Registry is the database that stores settings and options for the OS. Applications, drivers, user interface and third party applications all use the registry, and broken [...]
PC Tools Internet Security
Internet Security is PC Tools’ all-in-one security suite, combining most of the top products from their range into a comprehensive protection package. At the heart of internet security is Spyware Doctor, and it operates in much the same way. Downloads take a while, and then it scans the PC before identifying threats. Browser defender installs [...]
Spyware Doctor with Anti Virus
Once installed Spyware Doctor downloads signature updates and then runs a quick scan. It will then repeat this process until satisfied, in order to actually remove the threats you then enter your registration code. Targeting threats with Spyware Doctor ThreatFire targets threats so new that they don’t have signatures, catching active files through behavioural profiling [...]
Kaspersky unveils Mac Antivirus
Antivirus software makers, Kaspersky Lab, have released their first program to protect Macs. The software will work with Macs running OS 10.4.11 or higher. Kaspersky commented that “though the amount of malware that infects Mac computers still pales in comparison to PC malware, there’s no question that Macs can and do get infected by viruses [...]
