[Casper] Casper v the others <Watchdog: Virus checked>

[Brenner, John]

I have rather extensively, there are two really big draw backs to FileWave
and to understand that you need to understand how FileWave is designed.
FileWave wants to take utter and complete control of every file on your
workstation.  This can be nice in the case where you wish to repair a singe
file, but this adds to over head of FileWave.  To track all of the files FW
creates a database and compares the files on the computer with the files in
the database.  If these do not match it downloads a new copy and replaces it
on the fly.  

Security is the other issue, since FileWave takes complete control there is
no way to easily circumvent this in fact you need to start in a type of Safe
mode to disable the FileWave client.

When we looked at it for OS X it made no sense whatsoever,why add another
layer of security and that much overhead when a product that uses open
source, proven technology it available.


On 6/18/08 8:28 AM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:

> The only thing I know about File Wave is that it also works on the
> Windows sides of things.  However, I have never used it.
> 
> Thomas Larkin
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>>>> <Sean.Calderbank at bauer.co.uk> 06/18/08 5:47 AM >>>
> Hello Casper Community,
> 
> I have been asked to put a report together on the Pros and Cons of
> Casper 
> v Filewave, LANrev, RADmind and LANDesk. Has anyone done such a thing?
> Rather than spend months doing this when we will almost certainly go
> with 
> Casper, I was wondering if I could get some ideas from people who has
> already done this exercise in the Casper community. Are there any
> resources on the Web that I can access on this? Are there any tick box
> comparisons of what each product does against the others?
> 
> Any help with this would save me a massive amount of legwork and I would
> 
> be truly grateful!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Sean 
> 
> 
> 
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