User: Lord Farquar

Check Point Interspect and PestPatrol Corporate

On: Spyware/Adware Prevention In Large Deployments?

I recently did an evaluation of PestPatrol Corporate Edition 5.0, which runs in a similar fashion to Symantec's Corporate Antivirus. The software is server based, connects to PestPatrol for spyware removal updates, and can run a daily scan of hard drives to remove spyware. The only thing that is actually installed on the workstations is a small app that performs the actual scans. It's not that expensive either, I think it was about $2k for a 250 user license. Check it out at http://www.pestpatrol.com/Products/PestPatrolcE/

Check Point's Interspect hardware is really interesting. It's a piece of hardware that plugs into your network backbone and protects the network from spyware, Trojans, worms, etc. It doesn't actually remove anything, but if it detects an infected computer on the network, it can either prevent that computer from accessing resources on the network, or if need be, it can actually disable that nodes port on the switch that it's plugged in to. It does a lot more too, and I can't wait to get an eval of it. Check it out here: http://www.checkpoint.com/products/interspect/inde x.html/

Hope this helps...