AVG Anti-Virus and Walling Data Chosen by School IT Committee

For workstation security, school's tech experts turn to AVG's leading distributor.

Although "Technology Coordinator" is one of Pam Nadea's hats at Central Vermont Catholic School's St. Monica Campus, like many in her position, it is not her primary role. For more than 110 students from preschool to 8th grade, she is first and foremost a teacher of math, science and computer classes. Because she's a "computer person", Nadea, just like thousands of other teachers across the country, found herself responsible for managing the school's IT infrastructure. So she has to carve out additional time to ensure the campus computers run smoothly, on top of all her teaching responsibilities.

For seven years, Nadea has been a teacher at the New England private school and as the school has grown, so has the size of the network. With this growth, to maintaining the campus computer systems, came the recognition that resources needed to be dedicated. Not being in a position to fund a full-time on-site technician, the school did the next-best thing - they formed a committee of interested teachers and parent volunteers who could pool their knowledge and experience to manage the school's IT infrastructure.

The decision as to which security solution would best meet their particular needs and limited budget was the most recent challenge the committee has faced.

Nadea explained that the donated computers, resulting in immediate infections with viruses and spyware, would often come with different brands of security software installed, many of which were out of date. The IT Committee decided that they needed to find a cohesive and affordable security solution that is powerful enough to catch all the threats the school's students and staff might encounter, is easy to deploy and would not get in the way of productive use of the computers.

Nadea stated: "Two of the parent volunteers on our committee said they used AVG at work and were really happy with its performance." She adds: "A few others seconded that opinion, and so we all agreed AVG would be our first choice for the school. The next step was figuring out where to buy it."

To purchase AVG from Walling Data, it was an easy decision.

The country's longest-standing distributor of AVG Technologies solutions and the company's highest-volume distributor in North America is Walling Data Systems. Being the only distributor to offer all customers free, unlimited, U.S.-based support, Walling specializes in the education and nonprofit sectors.

Nadea's had no problems in the months since AVG was first installed, and feels comfortable relying the software to automatically take care of the school's IT security needs.