Malware, phishing, worms, botnets, Trojans, keyloggers…are all of these bizarre cyber-threats scaring you to death? How do you protect yourself from online predators?

ISOCNET to the rescue! Believe it or not, we have to deal with online threats daily; it is essential to our business to do so. This is why for 15 years we have delivered our customers a better, safer internet experience. One example? Our time-tested, advanced email filtering technology.

There is more to protecting yourself online than simply filtering your email.  The best insurance policy requires a multi-pronged approach that includes common sense practices on your PC (Learn More: Common Sense Computer Practices) as well as:

Local system antivirus / anti malware protection
Nobody is too cool for driving without a seatbelt, so why not buckle-up with a comprehensive Internet suite program that combines antivirus, firewall and anti malware? Here are three to consider.

• Norton Internet Security has remained the gold standard of comprehensive suites since it was first launched.  Despite the buggy hiccups of several of its versions, it has retained a loyal following.  Perhaps it is the name recognition or market saturation that gives it the advantage.  No matter, it is effective.
• AVG Internet Security came on the scene and practically revolutionized the antivirus software market.  As if taking a cue from Microsoft, it flooded the market with its award winning "for free" software.  The free version is simply not as good.  It only contains an antivirus program while the Internet suite has more complete security protection.
• Avast Internet Security is one of our personal favorites combining antivirus, anti malware and firewall.  We like to know that our antivirus is working...and Avast reminds us regularly.

Server-side advanced email filtering
Whether you have an Exchange environment or a single PC, you would benefit from stopping viruses and spam before they ever hit your system. Our advanced procedures trap emails before they even get to your computer. Our system then “sandboxes” email attachments for advanced scanning. It even opens each file to check for malicious code. The image to the left shows a listing of features from our Advanced Mail Service.

All of our clients enjoy the same advanced protection features shown here.  In addition to protecting against spam, viruses and phishing, each setting is customizable to the users desired level.

Are you concerned about certain file types?  Block the file extension and you will never see it in your inbox.

Hosted DNS content filtering
With hosted DNS, you get content filtering and website filtering that is user customizable. What hosted DNS does is checks your internet queries/lookups against a massive number of website records kept by reputation authorities. Whoops…Did you just mistype facebook.com? You typed faceboool.com and it is not safe! With hosted DNS, no need to worry, you are not taken to a malicious site since sites that are known to link to malware or phishing scams are blocked. Ever wonder how you can keep your kids from going to xxx.com? Our system allows you to customize what type of content is allowed…and what is not.

Firewalls
Learn more: Configure That Firewall!