EduSweep is a unique piece of software that keeps your network free of junk that traditional anti-malware software doesn’t touch. Designed to complement AUP Informant and enforce your usage policy, EduSweep discovers and removes files that are in breach of your policy or otherwise unwanted – videos, music, scripts, programs and more can be cleaned with ease.
Designed with the help of system administrators across the country, it has proven itself in schools and businesses as a powerful, yet easy-to-use tool. Eliminate threats and reclaim wasted disk space on your network with EduSweep.
News
20th January 2012
The EduSweep 2.5 Beta 2 release has gone from private beta to public beta. Please grab a copy and test it out but be aware that there are still a few minor bugs to be ironed out. Installing the beta will remove any older versions of EduSweep but, if you reinstall these, your old scan tasks will be preserved.
3rd January 2012
The 2.5.0 release is due soon. Improvements include faster scan start, more fine-grained control over signatures, proper heuristic Flash detection, ClamAV integration along with a ton of optimisations and fixes.
Features
Why not just use the Windows built-in search tool? EduSweep provides scan tasks that let you define multiple search criteria (such as file extensions and filename keywords) and it can even detect specific files based on content. Scan tasks also produce HTML-formatted reports when they complete, useful for auditing, and can even run in a special low-resources mode for use on busy, production servers.
The latest versions of EduSweep can now detect Flash games that have been hidden within Microsoft Office documents via embedding. Advanced heuristics examine Office files for signs that a Flash object has been embedded while safely ignoring other types of file that cannot hold embedded objects.
EduSweep can optionally take advantage of the open-source ClamAV antivirus engine to detect malware during the regular scan process. Choose to scan all files, executable files or only files that have already been flagged as suspect. There’s no resident scanner running that could degrade performance when EduSweep isn’t running and updated virus signatures are pulled down by EduSweep’s integrated Software Update tool.
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Download and Get Started
The MSI installer is suitable for both direct deployment and repackaging for use with deployment tools such as RM Community Connect.
- Stable 2.2 Release (.msi)
- Unstable 2.5 Beta 2 Release (.msi)
The User Guide is recommended for anyone using EduSweep for the first time. It covers the initial setup process and all major functions of the application. Existing users might just find some useful tips and tricks too! Note: The current, revised edtion of this document supersedes the previous Readme file bundled with the application.
- User Guide (.pdf, 650 Kb)
- Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 7 or 2008 (includes R2 revisions where applicable)
- .NET Framework 3.5 or higher (installed out-of-the-box on Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2)
- 35MB of free disk space for installation
- Internet connection required for definition updates
The latest stable version is 2.2.0 and the latest beta version is 2.5.0.
Credits & License
EduSweep is released under the GPL Version 2 License. The only exception is the ‘starburst’ logo which remains under my own copyright. Please contact me if you are forking EduSweep and wish to reuse the product name.
EduSweep uses toolbar icons from the Silk icon set by Mark James.
All other icons are from the Faenza icon set by Matthieu James (tiheum).
EduSweep bundles the SharpZipLib compression/decompression library.
Virus scanning support is provided by ClamAV, the leading open-source antivirus, and by my own ClamAV# library.