[THIN] Re: Spyware Tools
- From: "Evan Mann" <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:51:48 -0400
I started looking for Corporate deployed ad-ware/spyware tools and came
across Pest Patrol Corporate Edition and Webroot Spy Sweeper Enterprise
edition as the ONLY two Corporate/Enterprise grade products. When I say
corporate/enterprise, I mean centrally deployed, managed, and reported
upon.
Pest Patrol i tried first and it was a MAJOR letdown in the
administration console and reporting categories. It was not worth a
single penny IMO. It detected spyware and removed it, but it's
interface is horrid and the reporting is worse. Maybe CA will make it
better. It's currently at v5, it should be labelled v1.0 IMO
Webroot Spy Sweeper was MUCH more along the lines of what I was looking
for . Very impressive for being v1.5 of a product and only about 1.5
years old (from what a sales rep told me). The administrative console
gives you pretty much everything you need. It's not deployed frm the
management console like Pest Patrol but can be deployed via login script
or GPO. The downside is the price, something close to $37 per seat for
the 0-200 price range. OUCH. Way overpriced. Full suite Enterprise
A/V products are cheaper.
Please note I was looking for *dedicated* ad/spyware products and not
what the A/V vendors are now starting to offer (or have been offering).
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Amer Karim
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 4:02 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Spyware Tools
Webroot Spy Sweeper and Pest Patrol have corporate editions - however,
Pest Patrol was recently bought up by CA...
We'd just implemented the corporate ed. of Pest Patrol at several of our
clients and it worked fairly well, and then we found out that CA had
taken over. I was not happy at all, and we're now looking at
alternatives again.
HTH.
Regards,
Amer Karim
Nautilis Information Systems
Pager: 604-645-7729
e-mail: amerk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.nautilis-sys.com
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Rusty Yates
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 12:01 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Spyware Tools
I know Ad Aware and SpyBot are good consumer products (I use SpyBot for
my home and laptop) but are these legit corporate products to work in a
corporate environment w/ easy implementation?
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of John Carlson
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 1:49 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Spyware Tools
Try www.norman.com for your Ad-Aware questions. They recently inked a
deal with Lavasoft to sell rebranded Ad-Aware. They might be more
responsive.
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Claus, Brian
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 1:47 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Spyware Tools
We are also looking...
AdAware, SpyBot S&D and PestPatrol are the 3 on my list but AdAware's
sales team has not answered 3 email requests for more info, SpyBot seems
a little clunky for a user to use and I haven't gotten to PestPatrol
yet.
Also look for existing solutions to "roll" Spyware protection into
existing suites...Trend's Officescan \ Serverprotect line is a good
example but they have a long way to go.
Brian Claus, MCP, Network+, A+
Network Administrator
WESCO Distribution, Inc.
225 West Station Square Drive, Suite 700
Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1122
Phone: 412-454-2412
Fax: 412-454-2540
bclaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Rusty Yates
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 2:37 PM
Subject: [THIN] Spyware Tools
What is everyone using to scan their servers for Spyware? We are
currently looking for options.
Thanks, Rusty
Rusty Yates
Senior Systems Administrator
The Peoples Bank & Trust Company
http://www.phcfc.com
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