iBurst will provide the McAfee VirusScan range of products to its subscribers.
The wireless broadband provider`s 24 000 customers can enter into a 12-month PC security suite subscription, at R12 per month, to get virus protection, anti-spyware and a desktop firewall, a spokesman says.
"iBurst is being proactive by encouraging subscribers to take their PC and Internet security seriously and not to avoid the issue by believing it can never happen to me," says iBurst MD Alan Knott-Craig Jr.
"The seriousness with which we should view the integrity of our computers is highlighted when one remembers that the entire productive output of today`s information society workers is located on their hard drives."
Knott-Craig notes that securing the desktop is an ongoing task because new threats continue to appear and known threats don`t disappear. Once the security suite is downloaded and installed, subscribers receive automatic updates as new threats are released, he says.
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