Out of Compliance Blog article (more and more of our Spyware/malware/NonBizWare customers are asking to do add more NonBizWare so they can better manage their out of compliance applications, this note from Mike Vizard is a good example of this)
Alas, in corporate environments we rarely see robust machines. What we usually see are machines that are just barely sized to run the official application load as defined by the company, so the sensitivity of these machines to applet pollution is high. Unfortunately, most IT organizations do very little to police these systems so the poor user that is left complaining about sluggish system performance usually doesn’t have the tools or the expertise to go find all the random bits of software that are choking off their system resources.
Of course, there are tools available to deal with this problem, ranging from austere solutions such as those offered by Persystent <http://www.persystent.com/> that automatically wipe any unsanctioned software off a machine that doesn’t have express permissions to run or the spyware and compliance management tools offered by Shavlik <http://www.shavlik.com/> that make it easier for IT organizations to police applet pollution on their systems.
