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D-Link DSD-150 SecureSpot Internet Security Adapter
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List Price:
$99.99
Computers-Internet Price:
$86.73
Your Savings: $ 13.26 ( 13% )
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: D-Link
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: D-Link
EAN: 0790069291944
Feature: Protects your home network from viruses, worms, and other online security threats
Format: CD
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: D-Link
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: D-Link
Model: DSD-150
Modem Description: None
Platform: Windows
Publisher: D-Link
Studio: D-Link
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Features
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Protects your home network from viruses, worms, and other online security threats
Prevents your child from downloading and installing unwanted applications
Provides an easy-to-use, web-based control panel for setup
Includes network protection, firewall, virus protection, spyware protection, identity protection, pop-up blocker and more
Palm-size box is compact and convenient
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Editorial Reviews:
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To combat the alarming number of annoying and potentially disastrous security breaches to the home or small office, D-Link brings you the first desktop Internet Security Device (ISD) that provides multi-tiered protection for all networked PCs against viruses, spam, spyware, pop-ups, hackers and other privacy invasions while operating under a single integrated, easy-to-use web-based control center. D-Link SecureSpot performs multiple security functions with a single plug-and-play device and a web-hosted control center, putting an end to the need for consumers to select, buy, and integrate disparate stand-alone firewalls, pop-up blockers, reporting applications, content and spam filters and antivirus protection. SecureSpot consolidates firewall, antivirus, intrusion detection, content filtering, pop-up and spyware killers into one small device. Powered by BSecure Technologies, all product functions operate under one Web-managed system that provides protection for the home or small office network and attached Windows or OSX-based computers. D-Link SecureSpot is designed to make users' personal choices in content filtering easier, safer, more reliable and faster - it will not slow down Internet traffic. Support for all Windows 98 and higher operating systems, and Macintosh OSX 10.3 and 10.4
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: OK w/ minor issues
Comment: The DSD is a great alternative than installing software on every PC in your home. Installation of DSD is relativly easy and configuration screen is easy to navigate. One down side is that every PC needs a client application that is pushed down from the DSD and can accomodate only 4 PC's on your network. More Pc's can be added for an extra fee. Client crashed with blue screen on 2 of my PC's when client was installed. Still it filters out objectionable content when configured on your network transparently without client. Though you have no reporting options without client.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not without faults, it's a viable option to Norton Internet Security
Comment: Let me start by saying that I was a former user of Norton Internet Security products since 2000 through 2008. Norton did everything possible to make me increasingly hate their product, so I finally determined to find an alternative.
The DSD-150 filtering is a viable alternative. Installing was easy to do -- plug it in between your modem and router. You have different ways of installing it based upon what you're trying to do. If you have an untrusty child, there is a way to install this product that will cause networked PCs to either use the filter or not have Internet access, but I'd say that if you have an untrusty child, they shouldn't have Internet access at all -- no solution is foolproof, including this one.
Once installed, access to the little black box is done by the bsecure.com website (click on a systray icon and you'll be prompted to enter a password for your bsecure.com account). From there, you have control over the firewall, pop-up blocker, spam filter, and parent controls (website filtering).
The Good:
- It filters the whole network. If friends come over to your home, they are governed by the same filtering when they use your WiFi.
- It filters reasonably well. I haven't tried to intentionally poke through it's filters, but they seem to work well enough given the limited testing I do. That said, be sure to set Google to strict filtering to avoid easily accessed, cached porn.
- There are lots of filtering categories to turn on/off, so filtering is pretty flexible. You can add sites to bypass the filters.
- It doesn't seem to slow down my computer the way Norton did. Norton was *awful*.
- It gets its website updates and antivirus updates automatically without the horrible "LiveUpdate" program that Norton uses.
- The antivirus protection is optional, but if you use it, it can be installed on up to 4 PCs. Nice.
The bad:
- The user interface for the bsecure.com website is really awful and not intuitive at all. It will take time to know where you need to go, and what you need to do to make changes
- It can be complicated, especially if you're tying Windows user accounts to profiles set-up on bsecure.com to give different filtering experiences to different users in your home. It can be done, just not real easily.
- You only have 4 user profiles that you can create. I wish I could have much more than that, at least so every person in our house can have different filtering settings based upon their age and trustworthiness.
- It seems to do quirky things like, after saving new settings, it sends me back to the logon page.
- It has a horrible way of executing some setting changes where you first 'Save' them, and then you must 'Apply' them using a hard-to-miss button that appears on the interface. Stupid!
- It's expensive to renew the service. I contacted D-Link support and it's about $79 to renew the filtering and antivirus service for one year.
- There is very limited ways of doing anything with the antivirus software that's loaded to your PCs. On a disconnected laptop, you can either turn-on or turn-off the A/V program, but nothing much else.
The ugly:
- Version 2.0 of SecureSpot does appear to have at least one bug that is significant. Another Amazon reviewer reported having to shutdown/restart his whole network after web browsing became strangely very slow. I had that problem today, about one month after I installed the product. Download speed was normal for my DSL connection, but upload speed was one-tenth of what it should be. I tried different computers on my network, same result. After powering down my router, DSD-150 and modem (leaving everything off for a few minutes) and re-powering everything again, all was well again. The modem and router are years-old and never had this problem, so it's very likely the DSD-150 is at fault.
- I use virtual hard disks (VMWare and Virtual PC). While using VM Player and a virtual hard disk, the antivirus software thought the virtual hard disk was malware, and quarantined it. When I released it from the quarantine, the virtual disk got corrupted irrecoverably. Worse, I can't find a way of telling the antivirus program to not scan any of my virtual hard disks. This is very, very bad.
This isn't the best solution out there, but I don't know what the best solution out there is. If D-Link/Bsecure could create a user-friendly interface and fix their bugs, it has the potential of being a 5-star solution. As it is, it's better than my experience with Norton Internet Security, but it still doesn't satisfy my needs or expectations. I'll look again at other options once my one-year service nears expiration.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It is ful of bugs
Comment:
I could never get this device running properly and numerous calls to the help line did not solve the problem. Overall, I would not bother with this product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Trash. False advertising.
Comment: This product does not perform as advertised. In all the manufacturer's advertising, they mention how it doesn't require you to modify all your systems and that you "Simply plug in between your broadband modem and router", but that is a LIE. This product requires that you install their software onto EACH system on your network. The only reason for this device to exist is so that you do NOT need to install software. There is NO technical reason why the parental controls and reporting features should require software to be installed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: something you should know
Comment: I bought this product from the market place via Amazon.com and when I installed it I found out that it was not fully compatible with my mac but the information given is that it can be used with a mac or a pc.
It took a very long time to get this problem fixed and the DSD-150 returned. But one other problem is that the web site for this product has not been changed yet. I am sure that it would do a fine job with a pc.
RT
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