Comprehensive anti-spyware solution for networked desktop PCs and laptops in business environments

Spyware is a technology that helps crooks and hackers gather information about organizations without their consent. It is becoming nowadays a huge threat to business networks. It can leak valuable, confidential information on your organization to outside entities compromising network security and can ultimately slow down network and PC performance, impacting your employees' productivity. According to a January 2005 survey, two thirds of IT managers think that spyware is the number one security threat to their networks. 1

Acronis has a solution which ensures that spyware will not be a threat to your organization. Acronis Privacy Expert 8.0 Corporate is a centrally managed anti-spyware solution that proactively protects your organization from spyware infections that can expose confidential information and diminish network and PC performance. 95% of IT managers think that central management is most effective way to deploy an anti-spyware solution. 2

Key Features and Benefits:

• Central management console — Manages spyware tasks on networked machines from one central location
• Spyware removal utility — Removes spyware programs from networked machines to ensure that outside entities do not obtain access to internal/confidential data
• Spyware shield — Proactively monitors systems for suspicious applications and components and prevents spyware from being installed
• Spyware updates — Keeps spyware definitions up-to-date
• Pop-up ad blocker — Ensures that annoying pop-up ads do not interfere with Web browsing

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Details

Management Console
The Acronis Privacy Expert Corporate management console enables you to manage all spyware tasks from one central location to ensure network security. From the management console you can:

• Install Acronis Privacy Expert Corporate components onto all networked computers, including:
  • Acronis Privacy Expert Agent — tool that enables you to access remote computers from the management console to manage spyware tasks
  • Acronis Spyware Shield — utility that monitors spyware and prevents malicious programs from being installed
  • Acronis Pop-up Ad Blocker — tool that blocks unwanted pop-up windows
• Remove spyware and malicious programs from remote computers
• Manage spyware shield and pop-up ad blocker
• Browse logs to view all actions performed by Acronis Privacy Expert Corporate

Spyware removal
The spyware removal tool enables you to remove spyware from all systems in your network, including the ability to:

• Connect to and select remote computers for spyware removal
• Select from two different spyware scan modes:
  • Smart scanning — application searches for spyware in the most likely locations, including system, user profiles, and temporary file folders, as well as the system registry
  • Deep scanning — application searches for spyware in all folders on all system hard drives
• Schedule automatic spyware scans

Spyware Shield
The Acronis Privacy Expert Corporate provides a spyware shield that prevents spyware and other suspicious programs from being installed on all networked desktop PCs and laptops. The shield enables you to:

• Manage spyware shield from the management console — enable, disable, and change settings on remote systems
• Specify the types of spyware to protect the PC from including:
  • Known threats only — automatically warns you about spyware activity included in the product database
  • All suspicious activities — automatically warns you about all suspicious programs or processes that are trying to change the Windows registry or are launched at startup
  • Prevent browser hijacking — prevent applications from making changes to Web browser settings, including the home page, search page, etc.
  • Guard against start-up changes — prevent suspicious programs and processes from starting at Windows startup
  • Guard ActiveX configuration — prevent changing settings of ActiveX components
  • Analyze running processes — constantly monitor processes and warn you about any suspicious actions of unknown programs
• Save spyware shield settings

Spyware Updates
Acronis Privacy Expert Corporate provides a spyware definitions update service that enables you to obtain the most up-to-date information and spyware protection from Acronis. This service is available once you have registered your product.

The spyware update feature allows you to:

• Select computers in your network to update spyware definitions
• Manually update spyware using a wizard
• Automatically update spyware using a wizard, supporting the following options:
  • Daily
  • Weekly
  • Monthly
  • one time only
  • computer start
  • logon
  • computer shutdown
  • logoff

Pop-up Ad Blocker
The Acronis Privacy Expert pop-up ad blocker automatically prevents Windows from opening pop-up ads when browsing the Internet.

• Manage pop-up ads through the management console by enabling or disabling the pop-up ad blocker on remote machines
• View a list of websites that contained pop-ups that were blocked
• Block and unblock specific websites

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Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Agent: Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0 Workstation SP 6, 2000 Professional, XP Professional;
Management Console: Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0 Workstation Service Pack 6, 2000 Professional, XP Professional, NT 4.0 Server Service Pack 6, 2000 Server, 2000 Advanced Server, 2003 Server.

1 — IT Managers Rate Spyware No. 1 Threat, January 24, 2005, TechWeb News
2 — IT Managers on Spyware Threat, Friday, 13 May 2005, Author: IT-Observer Staff

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