The Big Windows IT Pro News!
Hi All,
Now and then we decide to announce big events in a Stu's News format.
And this time, I have really BIG news for you indeed. You probably
are all familiar with Windows IT Pro Magazine, formerly Windows NT
mag. It's actually the biggest professional Windows community in
the world. Every year, WinITPro has their Readers' Choice Awards.
Call 'em the 'Oscars for Windows Software' and you're close...
In twelve broad categories, Windows professionals all over the USA
and Canada voted for the products they simply like the best. This
year, six of our products got an unprecedented eight(!) Readers'
Choice Awards in the following categories:
Overall: Best Software - iHateSpam for Exchange(tm)
Rookie of the Year - CounterSpy Enterprise(tm)
Best Spyware Blocker - CounterSpy Enterprise
Best Antispam/Server - iHateSpam for Exchange
Best Antispam/Client - iHateSpam(tm)
Best Vulnerability Scanner - Sunbelt Network Security Inspector(tm)
Best Network Analyzer - LanHound(tm)
Best Monitoring and Alerting Software - ServerVision(tm)
More than 1,700 readers chose the best among more than 750 products
and services. I'd like to personally thank you for voting for us,
and we're honored to have won in so many categories.
"The Windows IT Pro Readers' Choice Awards are highly coveted in the
IT industry because our readers, who are the buyers and users of
these products, are the ones who choose the winners," said Kim Paulsen,
group publisher of Penton Media's Windows IT Pro Group. "These awards
are the ultimate acclamation an IT company can earn from its peers
in the IT community."
We will give each award winning product a small highlight, and
give you the link to the full description on the WindowsITPro
website!
CounterSpy Enterprise - Rookie of the Year/Best Spyware Blocker
The winner of this year's Rookie of the Year award is Sunbelt Software's
CounterSpy Enterprise, software that can detect and delete spyware.
Spam used to top administrators' annoyance list, but now spyware is
quickly surpassing it. Unethical companies are constantly creating
new spyware for financial gain, and cybercriminals change their
malicious code regularly to try to escape discovery. Both unethical
companies and cybercriminals are waging a battle for your surfing and
buying habits. Internet advertisers want to know where you click, and
others are trying to steal your identity and credit card information.
It's likely that your personal computer has been infected with several
spyware products and can't get rid of these by itself. Symptoms that
your computer has been infected with spyware vary from slower Internet
connection speeds, unwanted pop-up ads when you're not even on the
Internet, changes in your Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) home page,
or the slowing of your PC to a crawl. Given the number of readers
that voted for this product, its CounterSpy to the rescue!...
Article:
http://www.stusnews.com/rd.cfm?id=050830SV-CSE_Article
Product Specs & Download:
http://www.stusnews.com/rd.cfm?id=050830SV-CSE
Consumer version iHateSpam and iHateSpam for Exchange -
Best AntiSpam / Client and Best AntiSpam/Server
What could be more fun than compliance? Dealing with spam, of course.
The sheer number of votes cast for our Best Antispam/Client and
Best Antispam/Server awards tells us how much you enjoy that chore.
And by a landslide, the winner in both categories was Sunbelt
Software. The company's iHateSpam product, which also won this
year's Best Software award.
Article:
http://www.stusnews.com/rd.cfm?id=050830SV-iHSE_Article
Product Specs & Download:
iHateSpam for Exchange:
http://www.stusnews.com/rd.cfm?id=050830SV-iHSE
iHateSpam Client:
http://www.stusnews.com/rd.cfm?id=050830SV-iHS
LanHound - Best Network Analyzer
Readers' top choice for the Best Network Analyzer award was Sunbelt
Software's LanHound, which offers useful traffic views, packet
capture, and packet-decoding features for troubleshooting network
problems and monitoring network activity. Through its remote agents,
LanHound also supports switched segments. Because the products
requires less than 10MB of total disk space...
Article:
http://www.stusnews.com/rd.cfm?id=050830SV-LH_Article
Product Specs & Download:
http://www.stusnews.com/rd.cfm?id=050830SV-LanHound
ServerVision - Best Monitoring and Alerting Software
It was a neck-to-neck race for the Best Monitoring and Alerting
award. Sunbelt Software's ServerVision won by a nose—by just one
vote—over the second place winner Microsoft Operations Manager
(MOM) 2005. In fact, one systems administrator compared these two
programs, saying that ServerVision "has much of the functionality
we've been drooling over...
Article:
http://www.stusnews.com/rd.cfm?id=050830SV-SV_Article
Product Specs & Download:
http://www.stusnews.com/rd.cfm?id=050830SV-ServerVision
Sunbelt Network Security Inspector - Best Vulnerability Scanner
The winning vulnerability scanner, Sunbelt Software's Sunbelt Network
Security Inspector, uses a frequently updated database of more than
3000 vulnerabilities, including the most recent MITRE Common Vulnera-
bilities and Exposures (CVE) list and the most recent SANS Top 20 list
f vulnerabilities. Network Security Inspector has a GUI, and it can
scan Windows, Linux...
Article:
http://www.stusnews.com/rd.cfm?id=050830SV-SNSI_Article
Product Specs & Download:
http://www.stusnews.com/rd.cfm?id=050830SV-SNSI
Quote of the day:
"Some people are like Slinkies. They're really good for nothing;
however, they still bring a smile to your face when you push them
down a flight of stairs." -- Unknown
