| Omniquad AntiSpy Enterprise Version 3.3 | Score |
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Vendor: Omniquad Price: $3 per user. Pros: Lots of scanning options; removed all spyware traces. Con: No undelete function. |
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| Web Security Suite-Lockdown Edition | Score |
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| Vendor: WebSense Price: $50 per user, per year. Pros: Left no spyware residue; can prevent installation of any new executable. Con: No SNMP alerts. |
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| CounterSpy Enterprise Version 1.5 | Score |
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| 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. |
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| Spy Sweeper Enterprise Version 2.1 | Score |
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| Vendor: Webroot Software Price: $29.95 per user for 10+ users. Pros: Excellent user interface; highly scalable. Con: No SNMP alerts. |
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| McAfee Anti-Spyware Enterprise | Score |
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| 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. |
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| SurfControl Enterprise Threat Shield | Score |
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| 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. |
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| eTrust PestPatrol Corporate Edition Version 5 | Score |
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| Vendor: Computer Associates Price: Starts at $39.95 per seat. Pros: Flawless, quick installation of agents on clients. Con: No SNMP alerts. |
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| Packet Hawk Version 2.0 | Score |
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| 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. |
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| FortiClient Host Security 2.0 | Score |
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| Vendor: Fortinet Price: $15.95 per user. Pros: Implements NAT and can be an IPSec VPN client. Con: No SNMP alerts. |
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| Anti-Virus Client Security 6.0 | Score |
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| Vendor: F-Secure Price: $72 for 10 licenses. Pros: Removed all spyware residue. Con: Some call drops in most stressful test case. |
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| Ad-Aware SE Enterprise 2005 Edition | Score |
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| 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. |
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| EnterpriSecure with TruPrevent Technology | Score |
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| 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. |
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| Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) | Score |
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| 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. |
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| Spyware Defense Version 1.3 | Score |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| Scoring Key: 5: Exceptional; 4: Very good; 3: Average; 2: Below average; 1: Consistently subpar |
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