South West I.T. Services Ltd. recommends the following software, please use the links to help guide yourself through.

South West I.T. Services is an authorised reseller of the AVG suite of Anti-Malware products for both home and business use. AVG offer Desktop Editions, Network Editions, Email Server Editions, File Server Editions as well as a Linux Edition.

AVG now offer various combinations of Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Spam and Firewall.

Please visit the AVG website for additional information. If you purchase any of the AVG products through SWITS then we can install and configure the software for you.

AVG also provides a cut down free version of AVG Anti Virus for home users. Please visit the AVG website that provides the free AVG Anti Virus software for more information.

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware which silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer.

SmoothWall Express is a standalone firewall and proxy server which protects your network from attack whilst connected to the Internet. This means that all your networked computers can use a common access point to the Internet without fear of attack from hackers. SmoothWall Express runs on an otherwise redundant computer (it will run on a P1 200MHz with 128MB RAM and 2GB Hard Drive).

South West I.T. Services Ltd. can configure old machines to run SmoothWall Express for just a small labour charge (the software is free!).

To find out more about SmoothWall Express click here.

SWITS has installed SmoothWall Express for the following clients:

• Fraser & Co;

• Mendip YMCA (linking three sites via VPNs);

• Learning Institute;

• Development Initiatives.

Mail addressed to your company's domain lands on your ISP's remote mail server and, for small organisations, must be retrieved using "POP3". Exchange server is not supplied with a mechanism to access POP3 email, although Small Business Server (SBS) has a limited connector. 

IGetMail has enhanced functionality over the SBS connector and pulls email according to the weekday and weekend time and frequency schedules that you define. Also supports unlimited individual and unlimited Internet domain (group) accounts.

WinZip is commercial software that is used to compress and expand files that are distributed over the Internet to reduce transmission times. Visit the Winzip website to obtain a free evaluation copy.