Antivirus or anti-virus software is used to detect, prevent and remove malware, including but not limited to computer viruses, computer worms, trojan horses, spyware and adware.
Ancar B Technologies can recommend, install and support anti-virus solutions for any size of business, ensuring your network is protected at the PC, server, email and internet level.
Protecting Your Network From Infection
A variety of strategies are typically employed. Signature-based detection involves searching for known patterns of data within executable code and checking it against signatures that are known to carry a threat . However, it is possible for a computer to be infected with new malware, for which no signature is yet known. To counter such threats, heuristic methods are used. A heuristic approach identifies new viruses or variants of existing viruses by looking for known malicious code, or slight variations of such code. If the heuristic analysis believes a threat exists, the anti-virus software will activate.
Is there a downside?
No matter how useful antivirus software is, it can have drawbacks. Antivirus software can impair a computer’s performance – it does use resources in order to operate afterall. Third party applications that constantly open multiple files can degrade in performance, so it is imperative the anti-virus software is configured in a way that aids not hinders these systems, whilst taking into account any risks involved. Ancar B Technologies can help the client strike the right balance between protection and performance.
Inexperienced users can also experience difficulty understanding the alerts and prompts presented by the antivirus software. An incorrect decision may lead to a security breach. Therefore, Ancar B Technologies offer full anti-virus support through its Helpdesk to assist users in making the right decision.
Unfortunately no anti-virus software offers a 100% detection and capture rate, but with an industry leading protection system in place, your IT network has a better chance of escaping infection.
In-house protection
It makes sense to control anti-virus software for your internal systems internally on your network. Through a centrally managed console, anti-virus can be easily monitored and updated. Ancar B also recommend businesses adopt an Acceptable Usage Policy (AUP) for IT networks, thereby eliminating the risk of infections entering the network by negligence on the part of end users.
Extra external protection
Our hosted anti-spam service provides an element of protection by checking all email for malicious code and worms before it enters your network. This extra level of protection can reduce the strain on internal mail servers and free-up resource.
Practice what we preach
Our own in-house email systems comply with the above policies. We believe that a multi-tiered approach offers the most effective solution and recommend this approach to all of our customers.
If you would like to speak to Ancar B about anti-virus, anti-spam and AUPs to suit your organisation, please get in touch on 0845 077 8883 or contact us using the form to the right.
