Anti Spyware Technology
The Barracuda Web Filter provides complete spyware, virus, and malware protection for your network gateway. The Barracuda Web Filter blocks drive-by installs or downloads as well as any installation from known spyware Web sites. It also attacks existing spyware installations by detecting any spyware access to the Internet, notifying the administrator and facilitating its removal through the Barracuda Spyware Removal Tool.
Barracuda Energize Updates provided by Barracuda Central update the spyware rules and definitions automatically, ensuring that organizations are completely protected from emerging threats.
| Technique | Description |
Spyware Web Site Blocking |
Barracuda Central continuously updates a list containing thousands of known spyware download sites. The Barracuda Web Filter blocks spyware at the source by preventing browser and application access to these locations. |
Spyware and Virus Download Blocking |
Spyware and viruses are everywhere, even in harmless-seeming downloads from legitimate sites over either HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) or FTP (file transfer protocol). The Barracuda Web Filter unpacks and examines every individual file within 17 different types of archives for viruses and spyware. It can also be configured to block password-protected archives that may contain harmful payloads. |
Spyware Detection |
The Barracuda Web Filter not only identifies infected machines on the network, but also blocks the spyware communication from those infected systems to the spyware servers on the Internet. |
Spyware Removal |
The Barracuda Web Filter includes the Barracuda Spyware Removal Tool, an ActiveX download that removes identified threats from infected Windows computers. |