Actiance Security Labs maintains the popular SpywareGuide.com site. SpywareGuide.com is the leading public reference site for spyware research, providing details about spyware and adware applications, their known variants, and their behavior through an extensive and continually updated database. The site also offers a wealth of information to enable both IT professionals and home computer users to educate themselves on the problems and risks associated with spyware.

Actiance Security Labs is the industry's largest research team dedicated to the collection, analysis, understanding, and management of threats generated through the intentional or accidental use of greynet applications such as spyware, adware, P2P file sharing networks, IRC, and instant messaging. With facilities in the United States (West Virginia and California), the United Kingdom, and India, Actiance Security Labs employs dozens of dedicated researchers and supports a global community of concerned individuals who contribute their own experiences to the research effort.

Actiance Security Labs provides the foundation for complete instant messaging security and spyware prevention strategy, delivering detailed information about known threats that enable organizations to:

• Block P2P network use that could breach corporate security policy
• Prevent spyware from being accidentally or intentionally downloaded by users
• Secure instant messaging against worms, Trojans, malware and rootkits
• Remain in compliance with data privacy and information security legislation

The Labs also power the patent-pending inoculation and targeted remediation capabilities that keep clients spyware-free.

Actiance Security Labs provides the foundation for Actiance's Defense-in-Depth spyware prevention strategy , delivering detailed information about known threats that enable the blocking of spyware distribution sites as well as powering the patent-pending inoculation and targeted remediation capabilities that keep clients spyware-free.

Keeping you protected 24-7

Actiance's spyware research base is the result of seven years' working with customers to identify and address problems associated with greynet applications. Every instance reported by a customer is analyzed by the team and incorporated as appropriate into the company's spyware database, enabling every customer to immediately take advantage of new detection and remediation through automated updates.

By combining analysis of all greynet applications from IM to P2P to spyware, the Actiance Security Labs team is uniquely well-equipped to provide organizations with the information they need to make informed choices about application behavior that will and will not be tolerated on their networks.

SpywareGuide.com was acquired by Actiance Communications in the spring of 2005. From the outset it was Actiance's desire to keep SpywareGuide.com, its community and expert team intact with the primary mission to study and document the spyware and adware landscape in an objective fashion.

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