'GIANT' Leap for Antispyware

re: 'GIANT' Leap for Anti-Spyware

Bill Sanderson — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:14:00 GMT

See the URL for Paul Thurrot's review.

re: 'GIANT' Leap for Anti-Spyware

Brant Gurganus — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:17:00 GMT

With this anti-spyware technology, one must be conerned with what criteria its authors use to both detect threats as well as identify threats. For example, there are stories of e-mail being completely blown away by an overambitious program detecting (correctly) a malicious program in *part* of a single-file e-mail archive.
Additionally, I am well aware of several program that track my behavior that these programs identify as threats including Alexa's integration into Internet Explorer. I have no problems with such software and thus do not want such software blown away without good reason.

re: 'GIANT' Leap for Anti-Spyware

Uwe Keim — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:23:00 GMT

The UI of AdAware really sucks, especially when running on 256-color depth RDP connections.

I really wonder which mind creates GUIs like they do....?!?

re: 'GIANT' Leap for Anti-Spyware

Mayur Kamat — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:23:00 GMT

One thing mentioned about GIANT in the anti-spyware software review (http://spywarewarrior.com/asw-test-guide.htm) was that it performed very well in avoiding false positives. GIANT uses the community-based Spynet (www.spynet.com) to ensure that the criteria for adjudging spyware is not based on a few minds but the collective judgement assigned by a large community.

re: 'GIANT' Leap for Anti-Spyware

Matt F — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:20:00 GMT

Seems nice, is there going to be an enterprise version? Centralized distribution / configuration & settings update / signature updates? I ask only because our enterprise is reasonably sized (3500+ desktops) and we use a number of vbscripts for logins and SMS and I don't want to have to configure each one individually so they won't be blocked, yet still stopping malicious ones!

Thanks!

re: 'GIANT' Leap for Anti-Spyware

Mayur Kamat — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:13:00 GMT

Final product features are yet being finalized. Please note that there are known issues when using this tool in enterprise enviroments. Customers are strongly advised and encouraged to thoroughly research and test the BETA software before deploying in enterprise environment.

re: 'GIANT' Leap for Antispyware

RN — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:37:00 GMT

Can you provide more info on the known issues when using this tool in enterprise environments? Can you direct me to websites that have these issues documented?

Thanks!

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