[dba-Tech] Enterprise Anti-Spyware tools

John Bartow john at winhaven.net
Thu Feb 24 10:16:14 CST 2005


Erwin,
I've been running it for years now. Version 4 had some update issues but
that was sporadic and I had dial-up at the time.  CA actually improved the
product over the original company. I now have no problems now with version
5.

Every couple of weeks I run SpySweeper, Spybot S&D, Adware, Xcleaner, and MS
anti-spy. The only thing that has come up lately that the PestPatrol real
time monitor has missed are cookies (and MS anti-spy continually commplains
if I change my home page/search page from their's).

I put PestPatrol and SpySweeper at the top of my SOHO list of anti-spyware
programs.
John B. 

 


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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Erwin Craps - IT
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I use the family version of Spy Sweeper and find it pretty good.
http://www.webroot.com/
They do have business versions also.


I also tried Pest Patrol for a year or so, but find it not fully compleet
and not to user friendly, but maybe that changed. In several cases I noticed
that Pest Patrol did not scanned several spy's where Spy sweeper did.
I read some articles saying that some spy detecting software does not detect
some spy soft if from a certain "spy manufactor". In this is true I would
believe, based on my experiances this is the case with pest patrol.
Or they are not fast enough to discover new spy's. Either case not a good
thing.

There is some spy detection in version 8 of McAfee virusscan enterprise but
it is not actived by default.
I find it rather version 0.9 then version 8, so current I stick to Spy
sweeper.

 Erwin




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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:40 PM
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Subject: [dba-Tech] Enterprise Anti-Spyware tools

Hi all
 
I'm fairly up on personal anti-spyware tools, but seeing a how I just had a
good "talking to" from my bosses about installing "unauthorised software", I
thought I'd better look into commercial enterprise level products. I don't
know of any of them, and a google search only really came up with McAfee's
one, which requires us to upgrade 80% of our anti-virus products. That's no
bad thing in terms of security, but in terms of cost, I'm not sure that
they're going to want to do that straight away.
 
Anyway, I just wanted to know if anyone knew of any other commercial
applications, with a warranty/service department who can fix things should
anything go awry, or if anyone had any experience of enterprise level apps
like this.
 
 
Jon


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