While spyware protection on single home machines is quite easy using today’s removal tools like AdAware or Spybot Search & Destroy, deploying and managing such tools in corporate networks is still a problem. AdAxis promises to ease both deployment and managability of AdAware in such environments. It provides a facility for pushing reference file updates to corporate network workstations, executing AdAware on workstations remotely without user interaction and monitor the spyware contamination degree of machines.
AdAxis Promises Network Control Over Spyware
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In recent months, my work has become 90% spyware/virus clean up. And I have had much better luck with SpySweeper than either Ad-Aware or Spybot, so I’m really happy that they have released an enterprise version. Hopefully I can get my clients to buy it because I’m really tired of spyware removal eating up all of my time.
1. Don’t use Internet Explorer. If you have to use it, especially in the enterprise enviroment, limit usage only to the corporate intranet or for whatever sites you need it for.
2. Computers should be locked down by the IT staff to the point where you can’t install apps without Admin privileges.
If you’re doing it at home, just do a little bit of searching on the web – 5 minutes or less should be enough to determine if the app is spyware before you install it.
Once you have somebody who knows what they’re doing installing the stuff, avoiding spyware is quite trivial.
…but it can only be served from a Windows server. That makes it useless to me. It looks like a great deal though if you can use it.
Since this program is not a part of Ad-Aware. What if Lavasoft changes Ad-aware so it doesn’t work with this product? Are you out of your money?
I’m fearing that, too (I’m the author of AdAxis). However, AdAxis uses the batch functionality of AdAware and I don’t think that Lavasoft would shut this batch interface.
Also, I’m right in the middle of refactoring AdAxis to make it support Spybot S&D as well
So there’s no need to fear 
Hmm, indeed. I already created a setup like this, and evidentally there’s a market for it. It sounds like I should sell it!
See, the thing is this- in our institutional (library) environment, we cannot use AdAware for free. We’re not for-profit, but that’s the license. AdAware is a comprehensive tool, and to get the same sort of coverage, we are deploying Spyware S&D, SpywareGuard and SpywareBlaster- all apps that we can use legally without purchasing a seat-by-seat or site license. The three of them do a really good job. The problem? With those apps, just like AdAware, they want you to pay to use their automatic updating service. Fair enough, I don’t blame them- they provide a great service available, but we do not have the budget.
So, I wrote software to do the updates myself, saving my organization a lot of money- and hopefully clinching a better position for me there.
Wish me luck, pray, visualize, whatever- hopefully I’ll be “real staff” there now, not just a “student” (read: 2nd class employee) worker who just happens to work full-time.
I had considered making this available as commercial software, but wasn’t sure how viable it’d be. But seeing this makes me reconsider. It is a slick package and has the same features as this AdAxis, with the exception of seeing which machines are infected by what, though something I could add easily enough if there was an interest. But, I have the ability to push updates of the spyware updates or of the autoupdating s/w itself (something needed big time), enable protection, do scans, etc- without needing to be touched by the user at all.
If any organizations or individuals are interested in this software, feel free to send me an email. a*reich@ow(a)gmail(.)com. You know, take out the * and @ sign, (a) -> @ and (.) -> . to email me. Prices will be lower tan AdAxis, I can tell you that!