Bullguard Internet Security on VIsta

If you are running Windows Vista and have Bullguard AV installed read on.
We have been wrestling for some time with a computer that intermittently runs slowly, but then recovers. This has now been on the bench for 3 days.
Bullguard has integrated anti-spyware so we turned off Windows Defender - it works better however...
We thought we ought to run a virus scan. Ran the Bullguard scan and after 1.5 hours with only 7% complete we cancelled this. We ran Panda Active Scan which identified in about 1 hour 20 minutes that there were 11 infected files, so back to Bullguard and let it run.
After 2 hours still on 7% complete, 800,000 files out of 1400000 files scanned and the number of files to scan increasing faster than those scanned and 23 hours left to run to completion.
We sent an email to Bullguard and got the following response "Because the system is running Windows Vista, please make sure that the following Windows features are currently Disabled: Windows Defender, Windows Firewall, User Account Control. Know that these modules can lead to conflicts with the BullGuard plug-ins and also slowdown of the computer."
This is not good news, but our main gripe is to underestand why Mesh who supplied this machine shipped it with full featured Vista when the AV product is known to have these issues.
Our policy would be to ship an AV product that does not cause these conflicts or turn off those features that cause the conflict.
Of course many people turn off Vista UAC but is that really the right thing to do?

Antivirus 2009

Beware spoof anti virus software "Antivirus2009". We have just has our first case of this infection on a Windows Vista Home Premium machine.
This unwanted program comes in via a trojan, which means it gets round the Vista security controls because you have effectively invited the program in.
There are some published removal methods - simply Google for 'Antivirus2009'. We clicked on the 3rd and 4th links to find effective removal methods. The methods listed are really 'techie' methods and are not for the faint hearted.
However we did remove this program from our machine by installing an up to date version of Panda Anti Virus Software.
If you need more help you can always contact us via our main website http://www.hillierconsultants.com.

Basildon Business Awards Winners

Hillier Consultants are very pleased to number suppliers and clients among the winners at the Basildon Business Awards on 11th July 2008.

Congratulations to Geoff Morris and his team at Uniscan for being a winner in the Manufacturing Category, to Julian Lionel and his team at XPC who won in the Environmental Awareness category.

Another customer of ours was present in support of Janet Hart who won the Business Woman of the Year award.

A full list of winners can be found on http://www.essexbusinessawards.co.uk/basildon_winners.html

Basildon's 16th Awards ceremony was a success overall.

Many thanks to all those who entered the competition and made a contribution to the business opportunities that exist in and around Basildon District.