Computer Associates International, Inc today announced that the National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) has successfully combated spyware and other pests from its Exploited Child Unit`s (ECU) analysts` desktops by deploying CA`s eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware.
As a result, NCMEC has recovered more than 15 hours of weekly staff productivity it had lost as a result of spyware infestation, enabling the organisation to focus on its goal of helping protect children from sexual exploitation.
NCMEC faced a significant spyware problem as hundreds of pop-ups, hijackers, diallers, keyloggers and remote access Trojans (RATs) infected its 235 desktops, impeding the performance of ECU analysts. Often, the only way to restore these machines to good working order was to reformat and re-image their hard drives.
ECU staff members in particular experienced complications due to their extensive time browsing Internet sites frequently laden with spyware. CA`s eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware eradicated many of these problems, saving NCMEC`s Information Technology (IT) staff valuable time. In turn, NCMEC employees are now able to more effectively do their jobs without the threat of deteriorating PC performance.
eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware detects and removes tens of thousands of "pests" - including spyware, adware, Trojans, denial-of-service attack agents and other Web-based threats. "Its breadth of protection, centralised management and intuitive user interface alleviates many of the problems NCMEC staff members were facing," said Steve Gelfound, manager of Information Technology at NCMEC. "We are now able to activate scans and eliminate spyware across the organisation from a single console."
In addition, IT staff have gained full visibility into spyware conditions through the logging and reporting functions of eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware.
"Organisations that don`t take aggressive action against spyware will continue to see their productivity erode and their exposure to catastrophic desktop failures and security violations increase," said Sam Curry, vice-president of eTrust security management at CA. "As NCMEC`s example so clearly demonstrates, these problems can be simply and rapidly eliminated by deploying CA`s eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware."
NCMEC`s eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware deployment is the latest initiative in its partnership with CA in the quest to apply leading-edge technology to address child safety issues. NCMEC utilises additional eTrust products and CA`s Unicenter, CleverPath, AllFusion and Advantage solutions.
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