Good. I hope your org doesn't bowl over and just pay up. It will be a bad precedent.
My org must be having this discussion with them as well. I haven't heard any rumblings about this, we just started testing it on select machines.
--Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 7/29/2004 6:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SpyWare
Trend 6.5 is RTM. But, BEFORE you run out and upgrade, I think you should be
aware that they are now doing a "switch-and-bait" on the Damage Cleanup
portion of the Suite. The Damage Cleanup is the part that helps you clean an
infected computer after the fact. It's always been avaiable as part of the
Suite, even though you have to manually download and update it periodically.
Now, Trend is saying they've removed the manual update failure and made it
automatic BUT you now have to pay for it SEPARATELY regardless of your
existing contract or license agreement. So, as the latest myDoom
demonstrated, if Trend snoozes and missed a 0-day, and your computer gets
infected, even though it has ALL the latest updates available from Trend at
that time, you are SOL when Trend wakes up and releases an antidote for the
0-day. You are infected, and won't be able to get clean, unless you play the
switch game and pay Trend more again for what you've already paid for.
I'll keep you posted on how my discussion of this issue goes with them
tomorrow.
Sincerely,
Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
www.readymaids.com - we know IT
www.akomolafe.com
Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
Yesterday? -anon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian Desmond
Sent: Wed 7/28/2004 6:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SpyWare
Andrew-
I'd do a full Adaware and Spybot run during your maintenance period with
everybody logged off, the server booted in safe mode, etc. Yank user rights
to install ActiveXs as a start too.
The new Trend (not sure if its RTM or very close) has spyware/malware detct &
clean capabilities. That would probably be better suited for a server
enviornment.
--Brian
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From: Caple, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wed 7/28/2004 7:20 PM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] SpyWare
Good morning everyone!!!
We have a couple of terminal servers running Windows 2000 SP4 within
a Citrix Metaframe XP FR3 enviro. over the past few days and number of
spyware pop-ups have been appearing within users sessions.
Does anyone know of any good spyware software that would be safe to
install on a server? I've download SpyBot and XoftSpy 3.44 but I wanted to
check to see if anyone knows of anything else or if it's "safe" to install
this programs.
Thanks for your help,
Andrew
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