Please make something for the business

[daniel vanmeter]

I see over and over that this product is made for home
use. Please give us this in a business format. (and make
free). If not a separate program please make some Policy
templates to controll all of the settings, schedule scan,
exclude items, and make the ability to keep as silent as
possible. We are really struggling with this is the
corporate world and there are no affordable corporate
products. Mcafee and Symantec do a so-so job. Is the
reason for not having a full stregnth corporate version
due to legality reasons with spyware/adware companies?
Just another suggestion. I did not see an option to give
the user the ability to deem a nondetected item as
spyware. For example, if optimize.exe is detected
(anywhere on the drive) then detect this file as
adware/spyware and remove.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Daniel - I'm sure Microsoft is tabulating the feedback on this subject in
these groups.

I won't speak to the need for an enterprise class product in this area,
because I think that's self-evident--and you've given that feedback well.

The issue of being able to uninstall an arbitrary binary found on a machine
is one that has come up before. I don't have any insider knowledge, but I
would suspect that this issue would be a legal nightmare. There is a clear
set of criteria used to define items which are included in the range of
things this product can scan for and remove, stated here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892340 Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
identifies a program as a spyware threat (Listing criteria and Dispute
process)

Microsoft must be neutral to vendors of software running on its platform.
It cannot take the position, for example, that no software should be
ad-supported.

There are going to be items which this program won't touch, which you will
not want on a network you (or I) manage. We'll need to use other means to
keep our systems free of them, I'm afraid.

 

[Ron Chamberlin]

Bill,

There are going to be items which this program won't touch, which you will
not want on a network you (or I) manage. We'll need to use other means to
keep our systems free of them, I'm afraid.>

GPO's and a strong, enforceable and enforced Acceptable UserPolicy will fit
that bill nicely.

Ron

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Bill,

GPO's and a strong, enforceable and enforced Acceptable UserPolicy will
fit that bill nicely.

Yup. For my clients even an informal AUP works quite well If I find crud
in the system tray or on the desktop, I wipe it off and tell them about it
and why. I don't get many recreational surfers--there's one guy who pulls
all nighters weekly, and as far as I can tell he works--solidly. The head
guy in one office used to come in on weekends. He lived in an idyllic spot
on the river bank in New Jersey beyond the reach of DSL, and he rides close
herd on his investments. Bunch of workaholics!