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Review: ActivCard Gold Desktop
ActivCard knows how to provide products for review – they sent us software kits for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris, complete with manuals and supporting literature.
This was complemented by three smartcard readers, a PCMCIA reader, USB tokens and smartcards.
Review: Preventon Secure Internet Desktop
Preventon Secure Internet Desktop or PSID for short, is an amalgam of all of the company's products in a multi-function suite. The software is available in two versions - an ISP edition that relies upon the subscription service for ISPs in order to maintain, update and interact with the client software on the user's desktop, and a desktop version that functions on a standalone basis. The ISP version of the Personal Firewall PRO is already available to subscribers of Planet Internet in the Netherlands, at a subscription price of just over a pound a month (€1.95) and other ISPs are expected to sign up to the service in due course.
Review: Real Secure Desktop Protector
This solution is again reliant on enterprise management, but for the teleworker who requires a standalone solution BlackICE PC Protection is still available. RealSecure Desktop Protector (formally known as BlackICE Agent for Workstations) is the enterprise version.
Review: RAV AntiVirus Desktop for Windows
Installation can be for one PC or a network system, take your pick. But when it comes to updating your anti-virus protection RAV Desktop has a neat trick - instead of every machine downloading the same updates it allows one networked computer to act as the update server and collect the new virus definitions. The workstations can then collect them from a set directory. This saves bandwidth, and for the smaller office model that is important. A deployment tool is also available to allow one central installation to be rolled out across your network.
Microsoft puts Longhorn on the desktop, Blackcomb on the server
