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 4 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 Mobile: 662-213-9636 Office: 662-680-1566 Fax: 662-680-1502 If you would like more information on our email policy please visit http://www.phcfc.com/emaildisclaimer.asp ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor RTO Software Do you know which applications are abusing your CPU and memory? Would you like to learn? -- Free for a limited time! Get the RTO Performance Analyzer to quickly learn the applications, users, and time of day possible problems exist. http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id20 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm