Switching to AVG

    Richard Becker is the IT Administrator for the Osage County School System in Linn, Missouri. He quickly found out, when he came on board four years ago, that he had a mess on his hands. There were multiple different internet security solutions deployed individually across 325 workstations. Slow performance resulted, cutting student computer time back significantly. One of the first items on his to-do list was to implement one security solution for the entire school system.

    Becker commented: "Symantec's products were causing some of our workstations to run slower than slow". "They were eating up way too much of our systems' resources and taking away from the already small amount of time students had in the computer labs. It was also very frustrating and expensive to keep up with their annual license renewals."

    Osage County Schools is a private school system and the students' workstations were already resource-limited, because of financial constraints. Becker said: "Because of our tight budget, I only have one other person to help me manage these 325 machines, as well as keep up with maintenance". "The Symantec solution was causing my patience to wear pretty thin, what with the updating issues and constant flow of help desk calls as a result of the performance problems."

    Becker was reading some posts on a technology listserv run by and for technology coordinators in his area, a couple of years ago, when he came across references to AVG Anti-Virus that indicated the product was becoming a preferred security product for school systems, around the country. The listserv posters were discussing exactly the same problems that Becker had run into - well-known security products were eating up all their systems' resources and AVG was like a breath of fresh air - One poster described it as "nearly invisible" on their workstations by comparison.

    Becker decided he needed to learn more, When he red that AVG also offered two-year licenses, had a lower price point than the competition, and still provided all the necessary protection and removal capabilities.

    He recalled: "It really sounded as if this product might be the answer to Osage County's computer security problems".

    Becker searched around on the Internet, read further into his state listserv, and found Walling Data Systems., the recommended Education supplier for AVG. Walling offered a 50% discount to school systems as well as Free and Unlimited US-based Phone, Email support and Remote, things Becker could only dream of finding at Symantec at no charge.

Becker said: "I contacted Walling Data Systems to learn more about AVG, and to find out more about purchasing the licenses necessary to support our district". "I used their free remote support offering to help me deploy AVG to all of our workstations. They couldn't have made it any easier! In no time, we were setup and protected by AVG, with zero pain on our part."