California Private School Protected with AVG Internet Security

Michael Restivo, for the last seven years, has acted as Technical Coordinator for a private Catholic school in Alameda, California, Saint Phillip Neri. From kindergarten through eighth grade, the school has approximately 300 students, 12 teachers, and 21 workstations on a single network.

Restivo doesn't have a lot of time to troubleshoot computer problems, especially those that can be easily avoided sice his technical coordinator role is a volunteer one. The school was securing the network and workstations with Norton AntiVirus when he first took the position. Not mentioning the hefty cost of renewing the protection every year, it didn't take long for Restivo to get frustrated with the program's weaknesses. As a low-impact, easy-to-use solution that was also cost-effective, he researched possible alternatives and found that AVG Anti-Virus was being widely recommended for educational environments.

Restivo conducted thorough research on AVG distributors and decided to purchase from a specialist in supplying the educational and non-profit sectors, Walling Data. The fact that Walling is the only distributor to offer all customers unlimited, no-cost, U.S.-based support as part of every sale and is also the country's longest-standing distributor of AVG Technologies solutions, gave Restivo further confidence that he'd made the right choice.

Restivo declared: "Before I made my decision, I needed a measure of comfort in the product and the level of support that would be available".  He added: "Having tested the software, I was happy with the level of protection and ease of use it would provide, and my research into suppliers confirmed that Walling would be able to support the installation even if I wasn't able to put on my Tech Coordinator hat on any occasion!"

Restivo loves AVG's remote administration functions, because he can't always be on hand to oversee the network. This power tool, called AVG Admin, allows him to manage all the computers on the network from one central location.

Restivo said he is continuing to use AVG on his home computer, and would recommend it to friends and colleagues in a second. "Of course, we've had potential threats," he said. "But AVG has caught and quarantined all of them, every single time, so nothings ever gotten into the network and done damage," concluded Restivo.