As recent worm and virus attacks have shown, the Net is becoming less like an information superhighway and more like a potholed road in a bad part of town. The most common security threat used to be the occasional virus that could be dealt with by keeping your antivirus software updated. But now, as worms, viruses, malicious code strings, booby-trapped spam and hackers roam the Net, you need a better strategy to protect your computers and networks from attack.

The CRN Test Center looked at two software suites that can help harried business owners. One of the software is MicroWorld's eScan Internet Security Suite. For numerous PCs on a LAN, it's best to centralize content and security control on a network server. That's where MicroWorld's eScan Internet Security Suite comes in. This $60 offering is available for networks or desktop use and offers pop-up blocking, URL filtering and e-mail scanning.

On a network, eScan is deployed in two pieces: one on the server and one on each client machine. Initial installation is straightforward, and the process of pushing the client portions of the software to network-attached PCs is easy. The suite examines network traffic in real time. This process could slow down network operations, but Test Center engineers didn't find problems on a small test network including a Windows 2000 server and four client PCs. For network-attached PCs, eScan offers more flexible licensing options, more granular management control and easier deployment.

Frank J. Ohlhorst and contributing writer Michael Gros are affiliated with the CRN Test Center, the technology testing facility for CRN, a weekly newspaper aimed at IT consultants and solution providers.

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Deerfield.com, the publisher of leading Internet software products, today announced the release of MailScan for MDaemon. MailScan for MDaemon has been created to provide network wide anti-virus protection from the MDaemon server and is the first software in the world with the ability to automatically upgrade and reconfigure itself with the anti-virus information.

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