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. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Erwin Craps - IT Helps Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:08 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Enterprise Anti-Spyware tools 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 -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:40 PM To: Dba-Tech (E-mail) 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 The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject to the legal notice available on request from : webmaster at alcontrol.co.uk ALcontrol Laboratories is a trading division of ALcontrol UK Limited. Registered Office: Templeborough House, Mill Close, Rotherham, S60 1BZ. Registered in England and Wales No 4057291 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com