FAQ: Why do I still get viruses?

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

There are a variety of answers to this question, including.... You may be running basic or free Anti-Virus products.  Therefore you may not be fully covered from all the latest types of viruses. Your Anti-Virus package can only protect you if the Anti-Virus company knows about the virus and how to protect ...

What is AVG’s Identity Protection Software?

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

"AVG Identity Protection is constantly on guard, protecting your digital assets against new and unknown threats.  AVG Identity Protection complements AVG's signature-based protection by monitoring the way programs behave on your PC, automatically blocking any activity that could lead to ID theft, without the need for updates." An example we have ...

AVG 7.5 the end

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

The end is near for the support of AVG 7.5 so we wanted to inform users that an upgrade is required (free for the remaining length of your license) AVG has been replace with a significant update (v8) and it has been out for a while, we have reviewed it here ...

Virus Protection

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Recently at Brandstar we have had a larger number of clients & new clients than usual come to us with infected machines, all running some for of AntiVirus and it still got through. Needing our support to help them remove the trojans that were on the system and incurring an ...

AVG Internet Security 8.0

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

AVG Internet Security is AVG's most advanced Anti-Virus package for Home users. With the arrival of edition 8.0 we though it was time to give our opinion of the package and show our users how to use the features that the package provides. Configuration Process: Once you've installed AVG Internet Security ...

AVG 8.0 – All New Anti Virus

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

AVG 8.0 – replacing AVG 7.5...so what’s new? February saw the release of AVG 8.0 and it was time for users to see if AVG could better an already fantastic product. I think in practise it is very hard to answer that just yet, as it is not long released. However ...

AVG Internet Security

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Ask any client of Brandstar and they will tell you that we highly recommend AVG AntiVirus tools and have done for some time. Recently at Brandstar we have been testing AVG's Internet Security Package, mainly its Anti Spam capabilities because the most common irritation our clients are having is with the ...