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The holiday season has finally arrived. This time of year is wonderful and special for everyone – it’s the time to be with your family and friends, have fun, give and receive presents, and even make dreams come true! And of course it’s the time of Christmas sales.

We at Auslogics are also having a Christmas sale and we offer you a 25% discount on Auslogics BoostSpeed 4.5 and Auslogics Antivirus! Getting your discount is easy – all you need to do is enter the discount code CHRISTMAS2009 when purchasing. Hurry up – this offer ends on the 1st of January 2010!

Speed Up and Protect Your Computer

Computer security, speed, and performance are the top three concerns of every user. Everybody knows how easily computers get infected with viruses and spyware, and how quickly they become sluggish and even start freezing up. Our team understands how important it is to have a secure, fast, and efficient computer – that’s why we’ve developed Auslogics Antivirus and Auslogics BoostSpeed.

Auslogics Antivirus is one of the most comprehensive antiviruses available on the market. Reliable and feature-packed, it will protect you from viruses, trojans, spyware, identity theft, and other known and unknown threats. It can also operate in Safe Mode to remove resilient viruses. Auslogics Antivirus has lots of customization options and can run in two special modes – Laptop Mode and Game Mode. Like all Auslogics’ products it’s fast, very easy to use, doesn’t affect computer performance, and has sleek Windows 7-style user interface.

Auslogics BoostSpeed is a comprehensive system maintenance tool. It will ensure your computer is fast and optimized for best performance, protect your privacy by erasing traces of Internet activity, wiping free disk space, and erasing files beyond restoration. It will also advise you on which Windows services are safe to disable and will let you easily apply dozens of useful tweaks that will make your computer run fast and smooth.

And now you have the chance to get one or both of these products with a 25% discount if you buy them before the 1st of January 2010! Click here to get Auslogics BoostSpeed 4.5 and here to get Auslogics Antivirus. Don’t forget to enter the discount code CHRISTMAS2009.

Happy holidays!

Defragmenting disks is a very important part of computer maintenance, because badly fragmented hard drives can make your PC slow and unreliable. That’s why you need to defrag regularly. The easiest way to do it is to schedule defrag to run once a week. It’s best to schedule defragmentation for the time when you are not using your computer, so that it won’t interrupt your work.

But what if you keep forgetting to schedule defrag or it keeps annoying you by starting up when you are in the middle of something? The answer is to use defrag screensaver. It will start automatically when your system goes idle, so your work will never get interrupted by defragmentation again.

Auslogics Disk Defrag Screen Saver is a useful tool that defragments your hard drives in screensaver mode. It’s fast, very light on system resources, and looks fantastic.

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Part Two

In my previous post I’ve used Auslogics Antivirus as an example to show you some basic ways to configure your antivirus software for maximum performance. Today I’m going to tell you how to fine-tune Auslogics Antivirus, so that it becomes even faster and lighter on system resources.

1. Tune-up Real-time Protection

All antiviruses offer real-time protection. This means that everything that happens on your computer is monitored and analysed by your antivirus. But keep in mind that your computer performs thousands of operations every second and there is nothing suspicious about most of them. Basically, there is no need for your antivirus to scan everything all the time. So why not disable functions that are not needed.

First of all let’s configure real-time protection so that it doesn’t scan everything. To do that:

1. Open Auslogics Antivirus
2. Click on the Antivirus tab and then go to the Shield tab
3. 

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On Thursday, 3 December,  Avast had a bad false positive issue. They’ve released an update that mistakenly flagged hundreds of innocent files and applications as the Win32:Delf-MZG (or in some cases Win32:Zbot-MKK)Trojan. According to Avast blog post, amongst mistakenly marked files were programs from Adobe, Realtek, various media players, sound card drivers, etc. Our customers told us that Auslogics BoostSpeed was one of the falsely marked programs as well.

We would like to assure you that our software doesn’t contain any malware or spyware.

The erroneous avast! update was fixed the same day. Users who updated their avast! antivirus after 6 a.m. GMT on Wednesday shouldn’t have experienced any problems.

Part One

This day and age it’s absolutely crucial to have good antivirus software installed on your computer to protect your operating system and your personal data. Developers offer us dozens of solutions, all of which have extensive functionality and loads of features and options. Sounds good, doesn’t it? But there are a couple of drawbacks -  most antiviruses are pretty heavy on system resources when using default settings and not very easy to configure to fit your particular needs. As a result, a lot of people get so frustrated, that they either disable or uninstall their security software. Then they catch numerous infections and have to deal with the consequences.

Luckily, there is a better solution. Most antiviruses allow you to configure them to your liking. In this post I’m going to describe the best ways to configure and optimize Auslogics Antivirus, but you can use my advice to configure pretty much any antivirus software.

1. Choose Advanced User Interface Mode

First of all you’ll need to switch the user interface to Advanced mode. That way all customization options will become available. To choose Advanced mode:

1. Find Auslogics Antivirus tray icon (red triangle) and right-click on it
2. Go to Basic Setting
3. Find and select Advanced Mode
4. 
5. Click Apply and click OK

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