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If your organization runs on a smallish to medium network, then someone has the added headache of ensuring that everything is up and running; that everyone’s mail is synchronizing and everything from printer toner to bandwidth is available. Good network monitoring tools are few and far in between and are costly; way too costly for a medium or even many large businesses to implement them on priority.

Time to welcome Spiceworks (www.spiceworks.com). Spiceworks is many things—network monitoring tool, help ticketing system, IT asset management, and more, rolled into one. You download and install a small piece of software onto a PC and then run it from your browser to get started. The Spiceworks website states that it works well with up to 250 devices, and slows down with more. And the good thing is that it does Windows, Linux and Mac! The best news is that Spiceworks is free, supported by ads.

Similarly, McAfee Total Protection - Basic, is an all-in-one security services suite that provides small and mid-size companies continuous, up-to-date protection against viruses, spyware, hackers and phishing attacks for their desktop and server users.

Some of the features in online services from mcafee are

* Centralized Management and Reporting

The SecurityCenter, the McAfee-hosted management and reporting console, allows you remote monitoring without the additional software or hardware investments. With its easy to read statistical reports on viruses, spyware and hacker attacks, the McAfee SecurityCenter provides quick steps to customize security policies, whether for a specific office location, or for company-wide.
* Proactive Desktop and File Server Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware

Comprehensive desktop and server security gives your systems immediate scanning to block and defeat virus, spyware, adware, and other malware threats before they can install and fully compromise your systems. With Total Protection for Small Business, the McAfee technology also offers basic on-delivery scanning of inbound emails within Outlook mail applications. McAfee helps you minimize ongoing cost and maintenance with our always on, hassle-free security via automatic updates.
* Prevent Hacker Attacks onto Desktops

Integrated firewall protection safeguards your desktops by blocking unwanted Internet connections access to or from your computers. Feel secure that your business is doing business via the Internet without compromises or the risk of hacker attacks.