Evan Mann said:
2) Webroot Spysweeper Enterprise Edition - Very nice GUI, good
reporting. Can't say how well it works but I know the personal edition
of Spysweeper is a recommended product by Dell as an alternative to
Ad-Aware. I've heard good things about it otherwise as well, so I'm
sure the corporate client is just as effective. Downside is price. The
quote for 200 users I received was around $27/user which is even more
then a full enterprise suite of Antivirus from the big AV companies
That was the one I was going to vote for. When it comes to centrally
managed and works, it's the only solution I've found yet. I wasn't
aware of new stuff from Sunbelt. I'd be interested to hear your
thoughts on it after testing it. (Feel free to email me directly if
you don't mind, or just send to the list.)
I'd also have to agree with Evan on Pest Patrol. It's GUI is just
plain clunky and annoying to say the least. (That is, for an uber
tweaker like me. =D ) Good reporting capabilities is VERY important
for the powers the be (read: employer/boss/etc) to realize the need
for such a product. I've been recommending Spysweeper EntEd for such
cases for this very fact.
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Peace. ~G
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:32:18 -0500, Evan Mann
<emann@pinnaclefinancial.com> wrote:
There are 3 that I know of, and I've tested two. #3 will be available
in beta soon.
1) Pest Patrol Corporate Edition v5 - Extremely basic GUI, very poor
reporting capabilities. It does it job in stopping spyware but the GUI
and the reporting totally turned me off of the product. For version 5, I
was apalled to be quite honest. I believe CA has purchased Pest Patrol
and is working on a new version
2) Webroot Spysweeper Enterprise Edition - Very nice GUI, good
reporting. Can't say how well it works but I know the personal edition
of Spysweeper is a recommended product by Dell as an alternative to
Ad-Aware. I've heard good things about it otherwise as well, so I'm
sure the corporate client is just as effective. Downside is price. The
quote for 200 users I received was around $27/user which is even more
then a full enterprise suite of Antivirus from the big AV companies
3) Sunbelt-Software's CounterSpy Enterprise Edition - brand new, beta
coming out soon. Sunbelt sells Pest Patrol Corporate but have not
really pushed it, probably because of it's poor GUI (just a guess). I
think CounterSpy is going to be a really good product and pricing looks
very attractive $240 for 10 users but pricing per seat as low as $10.
Sunbelt is calling it the second generation of enteprise spyware. They
have a home version, so the enterprise version is obviously based on
that.
I will be testing CounterSpy Enterprise when available and hopefully it
performs.
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Jordan [mailto:patrick_jordan2003@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:51 PM
To: focus-virus@lists.securityfocus.com
Subject: Manageable Spyware Solutions?
Has anyone found an antispyware product that is centrally manageable,
doesn't chew up crazy levels of resources (on server and client), and is
still highly efficient at catching latest spyware / malware variants?
We've tried a couple of the products from early entrants in this area,
but they've been pretty unimpressive - but manually running Spybot /
Ad-Aware combo on workstations also seems a losing proposition.
Have a feeling this topic has already been done & dusted, but any
thoughts much appreciated ....
