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 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
Scoring Key: 5: Exceptional; 4: Very good; 3: Average; 2: Below average; 1: Consistently subpar

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