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NetResults: Anti-spyware software

By nobody, Network World
September 12, 2005 12:09 AM ET

ANTI-SPYWARE SOFTWARE

Omniquad AntiSpy Enterprise Version 3.3

Score

4.1

Vendor: Omniquad Price: $3 per user. Pros: Lots of scanning options; removed all spyware traces. Con: No undelete function.

Web Security Suite-Lockdown Edition

Score

3.9

Vendor: WebSense Price: $50 per user, per year. Pros: Left no spyware residue; can prevent installation of any new executable. Con: No SNMP alerts.

CounterSpy Enterprise Version 1.5

Score

3.7

Vendor: Sunbelt Software Price: $135 for five seats, $1,800 for 100 seats, $6,500 for 500 seats, $11,000 for 1,000 seats. Pros: Excellent reports; removed all spyware residue. Con: No SNMP alerts.

Spy Sweeper Enterprise Version 2.1

Score

3.7

Vendor: Webroot Software Price: $29.95 per user for 10+ users. Pros: Excellent user interface; highly scalable. Con: No SNMP alerts.

McAfee Anti-Spyware Enterprise

Score

3.6

Vendor: McAfee Price: $12.40 a seat (perpetual license and the first year of support) Pros: Excellent reports; easy client agent deployment. Con: Detected only 76% of spyware.

SurfControl Enterprise Threat Shield

Score

3.6

Vendor: SurfControl Price: For 1,001 users, first year is $18,690 and second year is $10,290. Pros: Drag-and-drop visual environ-ment for assigning policies to clients; good data export options. Con: No SNMP alerts; did not remove all spyware residue.

eTrust PestPatrol Corporate Edition Version 5

Score

3.5

Vendor: Computer Associates Price: Starts at $39.95 per seat. Pros: Flawless, quick installation of agents on clients. Con: No SNMP alerts.

Packet Hawk Version 2.0

Score

3.5

Vendor: Tangent Price: Starts at $1,500 plus an annual subscription ($495 for 100 desktops). Pros: Easy, appliance-based management and installation of clients agents; good user interface. Con: No SNMP alerts.

FortiClient Host Security 2.0

Score

3.2

Vendor: Fortinet Price: $15.95 per user. Pros: Implements NAT and can be an IPSec VPN client. Con: No SNMP alerts.

Anti-Virus Client Security 6.0

Score

3.2

Vendor: F-Secure Price: $72 for 10 licenses. Pros: Removed all spyware residue. Con: Some call drops in most stressful test case.

Ad-Aware SE Enterprise 2005 Edition

Score

3.2

Vendor: Lavasoft AB Price: From $22 to $32 per seat. Pros: Client agents install automatically and silently. Cons: No SNMP alerts; more oriented to technical users than the other products.

EnterpriSecure with TruPrevent Technology

Score

3.2

Vendor: Panda Software Price: $3,000 for 50 users. Pros: Good central control of spyware scanning and agent deployment. Cons: Reports need more detail and better selection criteria; uses lots of memory.

Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)

Score

2.7

Vendor: Microsoft. Price: Free Pro: Removes all spyware residue. Con: Requires lots of user intervention for each spyware instance detected; currently lacks a central console.

Spyware Defense Version 1.3

Score

2.6

Vendor: Ashanti PLC Price: Single user $29.99, LAN user (more than 15) $20.99, (Five to 15) $25.99, (Five) $29.99. Pro: Removed all spyware residue. Cons: Manual deployment of client agents; manual updates of spyware definition file; no SNMP alerts; removed only 72% of test spyware.

The breakdown	Identifying and thwarting spyware 40%	Reports and alerts 20%	Installation and deployment 20%	Ease of use 10%	Documen- tation 10%	Total
Omniquad AntiSpy Enterprise Version 3.3	4	5	4	4	3	4.1
Web Security Suite-Lockdown Edition	4	4	4	4	3	3.9
CounterSpy Enterprise Version 1.5	4	3	4	4	3	3.7
Spy Sweeper Enterprise Version 2.1	4	3	4	3	4	3.7
Anti-Spyware Enterprise 8.0i	3	4	4	4	4	3.6
SurfControl Enterprise Threat Shield	3	4	4	5	3	3.6
eTrust PestPatrol Corporate Edition Version 5	3	4	4	4	3	3.5
Packet Hawk Version 2.0	3	3	5	4	3	3.5
FortiClient Host Security 2.0	3	3	4	3	3	3.2
Anti-Virus Client Security 6.0	3	3	4	3	3	3.2
Ad-Aware SE Enterprise 2005 Edition	3	3	4	3	3	3.2
EnterpriSecure with TruPrevent Technology	3	3	4	3	3	3.2
Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)	3	3	2	3	2	2.7
Spyware Defense Version 1.3	3	3	2	2	2	2.6