Your home is your castle...

but with the advent of "always on" Internet, such as DSL or Cable Modems, your castle has the drawbridge down and the barbarians are waiting at the gate. On an average day, your new high-speed router or modem is attacked 25-50 times... per day... with Nimda and Code Red virus attacks, netscan and port scanning probes, and other hack attempts anyone with an Internet connection and average intelligence can launch against you. The basic firewall, routers, and modems packaged with your access plan do little (if anything) to deter or even notify you of such activity.
Software firewall programs can offer some protection, but the best and most secure method of protecting your computer is a hardware-based firewall. Commercial grade firewalls are usually too expensive for the home user, especially once you add intrusion detection, content filtering, and secure administration. But when it comes to your family's security, would you rather have your teenager seeing:

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Securing your computer or network is the biggest of the problems faced in today's world. With many homes having two working parents, nannies, baby sitters, and housekeepers are part of the daily working team supporting your family's schedule. Add in the exterminator, the carper cleaner, the electrician, or any of hundreds of other workers and contractors, and your home quickly becomes open to a multitude of possible threats.
Avit Consulting utilizes a number of technology tools to promote safety and security within the confines of your home computer.

We proudly present two services specifically tailored for home users! Each package provides complete security solution for stand alone home computers/home networks as well as home/small business offices. Please select an icon below to learn more about our quality services!

• Running a security audit on your computer
• Scaning and removing viruses and Trojans
• Blocking pop-up ads in your web browser
• Blocking spam email
• Scaning and removing spyware
• Setting up Parental controls
• Setting up a powerful firewall*
• Diagnosing hardware problems
  (We'll give you all of the tools and advice needed to diagnose and resolve any hardware related problems.)
• Diagnosing software problems
  (Software problems can sometime be the hardest to resolve. We'll give you all the tools and troubleshooting tips needed to quickly track down and fix software related problems.)
• Benchmarking your systems performance
  (Benchmark the hardware in your system and see how it compares to other computers. Know if your system is running as fast as it should be.)
• Benchmarking your 3D video performance
  (Find out how well your computer performs with the latest 3D games. Find and remove bottlenecks that can degrade 3D performance.)
• Identifying PC hardware
  (Get a detailed description of all hardware and software installed on your computer.)
• Monitoring your systems resources
  (We'll give you tools to monitor all of your computer's systems resources; hard drive, memory, CPU usage etc.)
• Diagnosing Memory Problems
  (Defective memory can be one of the most difficult things to track down and resolve. We'll give you state of the art utilities to scan and detect defective memory.)
• Diagnosing Window's® Error Messages
  (Ever get an error message in Windows® and not have any idea what it means? We'll give you the tools to easily lookup Windows® error messages and find out exactly what they mean.)
• Cleaning the Windows® registry
  (The Windows® registry can slowly accumulate junk configuration settings over time. These junk settings can slowly degrade the performance of Windows®. We'll give you the tools you need to remove these junk settings and improve your system's performance.)
• Editing the Windows® registry
  (We'll give you advanced registry editing utilities to manually edit the registry.)
• Uninstalling utilities
  (Junk settings and files can accumulate over time from programs being uninstalled improperly. We'll give you utilities that will insure that programs get uninstalled correctly. This is useful when a program that you want to uninstall has disappeared from the uninstall list, but not from your computer.)
• Cleaning your web browsers history
  (We'll give you the tools you need to clean out your browser's history files, cookies and temporary files. You can even clear out information left behind by Morpheus and Kazaa.)
• Defragmenting your memory
  (The system memory can get fragmented over time. This can cause the performance of the operating system to degrade. We'll give you utilities that can monitor when this happens and defrag your memory.)
  
  

  We can help you to:
• Easily partition any hard drive
  (We'll give you the tools and instructions to make partitioning your hard drive as easy as possible.)
• Easily resize any partition
  (With our tools and instructions you can easily resize a preexisting partition without any data loss.)
• Easily format any size hard drive
  (We'll give you the tools and instructions to easily format any desktop or laptop hard drive in preparation for Windows®.)
• Easily format any external hard drive
  (With our tools and instructions you will be able to easily format any external Firewire, USB or SCSI hard drive.)
• Easily install all versions of Windows®
  (Setting up Windows® is a snap, with our tools and instructions.)
• Boot disk images
  (You can use the advanced boot manager on our CD or make a bootable floppy, if you need one. We've included boot disk images for DOS and Windows® 95/98/NT/Me/2K/XP. You can use these image files to easily make bootable diskettes for any MS operating system. They each have hard drive utilities and support auto CD-ROM drive detection. Please note that these boot disk images do not contain the Windows® operating system.)
• Clone a hard drive or partition
  (Clone the complete contents of one hard drive or partition to another (through DOS or Windows®). This is ideal when your upgrading to a larger hard drive or moving your data to a new computer)
• Scan your hard drive for errors
  (Easily find and repair problems on your hard drive.)
• Repair bad sectors on a hard drive
  (Perform a zero-fill (low-level format). This will restore a drive to the same state it was in when it came from the manufacturer. This technique will usually repair bad sectors on a hard drive.)
• Monitor your hard drive
  (Monitor your hard drive for potential problems. Catch potential problems before they can cause damage or data loss.)
• Repair the boot sector on a hard drive
  (If the boot sector of your hard drive becomes corrupt (from a virus), we'll show you how to easily repair it.)
• Easily rescue Windows®
  (Corrupt or missing system files can bring your system to a halt. We'll give you utilities to fix these problems and safeguard yourself against them.)
• Free up space on your hard drive
  (A lot of useless junk can slowly accumulate on your hard drive. We'll give you utilities to remove junk files and free up valuable hard drive space.)

• Before you Connect a New Computer to the Internet
• Home Computer Security
• Home Network Security
• Security of the Internet
• Intruder Detection Checklist