[TriLUG] Corporate solutions for spyware?

[Mike Parkhurst]

SPAM Firewall 300, they didn't have an anti-spyware unit when I ordered the
anti-SPAM unit.

I like the Barracuda, however this line from their site is absolutely not
true in my experience: "eliminating spam and virus from your organization".


I suspect the anti-spyware unit will be helpful, but it will NOT "completely
eliminates spyware and other forms of malware from your organization."
Nothing will.  Eliminating spyware in a company connected to the Internet is
as hopeless as trying to kill all the cockroaches in a big old apartment
building.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Chad Thomsen
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:52 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Corporate solutions for spyware?

Mike, which Barracuda unit do you have?  I am sure you are aware that they
make a unit for Spam, and a unit for Spyware.

Just curious as the Barracuda looks promising.

Thanks!

Chad

On 1/9/06, Reid Sayre <rlsayre at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> After paying for and installing "SpySweeper" (from WebRoot software),
> and waiting two weeks, neither Spybot nor AdAware found anything (except
> the "most recently used" lists, of course).
>
> It looks like SpySweeper has a list of places that have all the spyware
> and blocks access to those sites. One of the effects of this is that,
> all of a sudden, there are a lot of "404" errors on pages that used to
> have a lot of advertising on them. The main function of the sites (well,
> the main function for me anyway) still work fine, but, in place of some
> advertisements, there are little frames with "page not found" messages
> (cnn.com has two of them on their front page, for instance). There was
> one time (out of about two months) that I wanted to go to one of these
> sites for something and it was blocked. I turned off the "advertising
> filter" (a few mouseclicks) and got to the site just fine. When I was
> done, I turned the filter back on again.
>
> SpySweeper (like the anti-virus programs) updates its list
> automatically. It also scans periodically (once a week, by default) just
> to make sure it didn't miss anything.
>
> And it works fine with Norton SystemWorks and Zonealarm free firewall.
> Of course, this is Windows. I am not aware of a Linux version or
> equivalent. Details at http://www.webroot.com , and they have an
> "enterprise" version.
>
> Um, I don't work for WebRoot or own any stock. I'm just a satisfied
> customer.
>
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