Controlled user access, i.e. no admin rights, and use a good class firewall with spyware/av protection on the gateway... no issues.
Rob Robert Rutherford QuoStar Solutions Limited T: +44 (0) 8456 440 331 F: +44 (0) 8456 440 332 M: +44 (0) 7974 249 494 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: www.quostar.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: 14 September 2006 20:11 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware Nonadmin I peronally have had way less issues when users that don't need admin rights don't have them. Chinnery, Paul wrote: > We're using CounterSpy Enterprise from Sunbelt Software. Like you, we > have seen aperformance hit* on computers with just 128 meg of memory > but that goes away when we add more memory. The only issue I ran > into, other than performance, was it blocked a cookie that was > necessary for our payroll department. However, once I "okayed" that > cookie, it was fine. > > *According to Sunbelt, the next version is supposed to reduce the > performance impact. > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of *Chris > Pohlschneider > *Sent:* Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:44 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [ActiveDir] OT: Protecting against Spyware/Adware > > Just curious what other people are using for protecting against > adware/spyware? We are using Webroot Spysweeper right now, but I > see some performance hits on computers running this software and > it does work, but it causes headaches will installing some apps > that we approve. Any suggestions are appreciated. > > > > Chris Pohlschneider > > Holloway Sportswear IT > > 937-494-2559 > > 937-497-7300 (Fax) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS Blog... man ... I will hunt you down... http://blogs.technet.com/sbs List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
