Anti-Virus: protects your computer from viruses, network worms,  Trojan horses and other malware that can infect your computer via several means including email, web surfing, external disks, and USB memory sticks. Cogeco Security Services’ Virus Scanner scans in “realtime” eliminating the need to run manual or scheduled scans. You can continue to use your computer with the piece of mind that you will be protected from emerging threats with our award winning protection.  

Firewall: prevents hackers and malware from accessing your computer, your files and your personal data while you are online.

Anti-Spam: protects your inbox from spam by filtering incoming e-mail and placing suspicious e-mails in a separate file where they can be examined and deleted.

Parental Control (Web Filtering): guarantees that your children do not visit undesirable Web sites. With the new version of Parental Control, you can define different profiles for different ages and limit the amount of time they are allowed to surf the web.

You can choose from the three following types of Internet access.

• Children: only have access to Web sites that you have authorized.
• Teens: limited access to Internet content (based on several categories).
• Parents: unlimited Internet access.
• Enhanced Parental Control: gives you even more filtering power, with four new categories (Violence, Travel, Online Dating and Sports).

Anti-Spyware: prevents spyware from monitoring your computer use or obtaining confidential information via the Internet.

Internet Dial-up Control: protects against Internet access programs and viruses designed to use your dial-up modem without your permission to call 1-976, 1-900 and other such numbers, or to make expensive overseas calls.

DeepGuard 2.0™: enables global protection for all Cogeco Security Services customer’s computers within 60 seconds from the first confirmation of a new malware threat.

Rootkit detection (BlackLight engine): thoroughly examines your system to detect any invisible objects.

Anti-Phishing: some emails are intended to collect confidential data without your permission or knowledge. Thanks to integration with Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, Cogeco Security Services automatically transfers suspicious messages to the appropriate files for processing , and classifies them separately.