Is CA EZ Antivirus any good?

[Frode]

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That shows how much you don't know.......it is still supported.

Full support for ME ended December 31 2003. It's now covered by extended
support. That means only critical security fixes are taken care of.

As for people running down ME. No other Microsoft OS is so well known in
tech circles for having serious issues on a large amount of machines. I can
see how that would make someone a tad jaded with regards to it.

Like I said before, if you're happy with it, good for you. But the fact is
it is the worst of the lot in many a tech's eyes.


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Frode



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[Bob]

After casually reading some of your observations, I'm quite convinced
now that you are just spewing gibberish.

I am just poking fun.

Why did you react the way you did?

Why did you misinterpret humor for gibberish?

That speaks volumes about your personality.


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[Bob]

Just read his gibberish now.....and yes, you are quite right. I get tired
of people running WinME down when they have never, ever used it.

I am just poking fun.

Why did you react the way you did?

Why did you misinterpret humor for gibberish?

That speaks volumes about your personality.

You know WinME is a piece of crap and you feel very defensive about
it.

If someone poked fun about my favorite, Win2K, I would just laugh
along with them, because everyone knows that any version of Windows is
a piece of crap to a greater or lesser extent.

This reminds me of Mac users - they defend their poor choice with far
more stridency than is really warranted.

Chill out, you virus users - life is too short to get a heart attack
over an operating system.


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[Bob]

Like I said before, if you're happy with it, good for you. But the fact is
it is the worst of the lot in many a tech's eyes.

The two who are spluttering about my poking fun at WinME are obviously
not technically qualified. Lemme guess - they're also Mac users.

Only someone dumb enough to use a Mac would be dumb enough to use
WinME.

But I have no room to criticize - after all, I am running Windows, and
that is probably one of the dumbest things ever to befall humanity.

Windows is an incredible invention - 100 million lines of code, 80
million of which are needed to keep the other 20 million from crashing
all the time. There's code segments for every known application - code
that is needed to prepare the computing environment for all the
exceptions required to run the application.

The only redeeming feature of Windows is that it has the kernel from
DEC's VAX-VMS, which was one of the best pre-emptive multitasking
operating systems ever. Without that, Windows would just be a bloated
version of DeskView.






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[Wattsville Blues]

Just read his gibberish now.....and yes, you are quite right. I get tired
of people running WinME down when they have never, ever used it.

Thanks......Heather

Did they ever fix the memory leak in it? It used to annoy the hell out
of me having to restart after an hour because system resources would
drop from 94% to something in the 40s....

 

[optikl]

Chill out, you virus users - life is too short to get a heart attack
over an operating system.

You're wasting finite space with observations one would accept coming
from an 8 year old. If you really have nothing to contribute, just say so.

 

[Bob]

You're wasting finite space with observations one would accept coming
from an 8 year old. If you really have nothing to contribute, just say so.

If you don't like my comments, then dial 1-800-EAT-SHIT.


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[Joan Archer]

<lol> And we all know over there what a tight ship you run <g>
Joan

 

[Sam]

Sam said ...

I have been using AVG but have been looknig for something less obtrusive
and maybe better. I don't like Avast. I notice that CA EZ Antivirus is
free for a year at the moment. Is it any good? How does it compare
with AVG and NAV, for example?

many thanks to those of you who stayed on topic and responded to my
query Sounds like, if free (which it is for a year), it's
worth going for. Actually I installed it yesterday and seems very
quiet, efficient and unobtrusive so far. Have tested EZ out with
eicar.com and it also found a virus in an email which AVG had missed.

 

[Heather]

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support. That means only critical security fixes are taken care of.<<

Quite true......but OTOH, I have never used MS support. Don't need to when
I have the MS news groups to assist with a problem. And my biggest one so
far is the inability to put XP or a second drive on here, but that has
nothing to do with WinME......and everything to do with being sold a
computer with an inferior motherboard.

Forgot to mention that I use Firefox, not IE.....thanks to some of the
regulars on this group. Haven't seen a piece of spyware since I started
using it last December.

Heather

 

[Heather]

The two who are spluttering about my poking fun at WinME are obviously
not technically qualified. Lemme guess - they're also Mac users.

Only someone dumb enough to use a Mac would be dumb enough to use
WinME.

Wrong on both counts. So far you are batting a thousand. Amazing!!

HF

 

[Heather]

Sam said ...
many thanks to those of you who stayed on topic and responded to my
query Sounds like, if free (which it is for a year), it's
worth going for. Actually I installed it yesterday and seems very
quiet, efficient and unobtrusive so far. Have tested EZ out with
eicar.com and it also found a virus in an email which AVG had missed.

Good to hear. I have used it for some 4 or 5 years....and you can now see
why.

Heather

 

[Heather]

Did they ever fix the memory leak in it? It used to annoy the hell out
of me having to restart after an hour because system resources would
drop from 94% to something in the 40s....

Never experienced a memory leak......but there were numerous posts on that
and equally numerous rebuttals. I never paid much attention to those claims
because a) didn't have the problem, and b) the *memory loss* usually turned
out to be something else. Haven't seen one for a while on the MS groups.

Heather

 

[What's in a Name?]

WinME is not recommended for anyone using Windows.

lol@bob+heather
I am going to have to write those down.
lmao

 

[What's in a Name?]

50 million flies could not be wrong about shit, but that doesn't mean
I need to use to know better.




You are the only one in the past 5 years who has anything good to say
about WinME.

When did MS stop supporting it?

I have a computer that didn't seem to like 98se,ME ran much better on it.
(I had shutdown issues with 98se)
But 2000 runs better than those(that's what I am running now).
-max

 

[Bob]

Have tested EZ out with
eicar.com and it also found a virus in an email which AVG had missed.

Did you perform all the tests?

I did all of them and eTrust missed some on download. Here are the
results I got.

* eicar.com - detected before downloading.

* eicar.com.text - not detected but loaded into browser.

* eicar.com.zip - not detected but downloaded. Detected when manually
scanned unzipped.

* eicarcom2.zip - not detected but downloaded. Detected when manually
scanned unzipped.

That's not so good, is it.


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[Bob]

I have a computer that didn't seem to like 98se,ME ran much better on it.
(I had shutdown issues with 98se)
But 2000 runs better than those(that's what I am running now).

When people find out that WinME is just rebranded Mac OS, they will
sing a different tune.


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[Sam]

Bob said ...

Did you perform all the tests?

I did all of them and eTrust missed some on download. Here are the
results I got.

* eicar.com - detected before downloading.

* eicar.com.text - not detected but loaded into browser.

* eicar.com.zip - not detected but downloaded. Detected when manually
scanned unzipped.

* eicarcom2.zip - not detected but downloaded. Detected when manually
scanned unzipped.

That's not so good, is it.

didn't test all, no. I did download eircom2.zip and that was not
detected on download. It was however detected when manually scanned as
is, and was detected when received in an email. This isn't a good
advert for EZ bit it's no worse than AVG, which is what I'm replacing!

 

[DaVinci]

When people find out that WinME is just rebranded Mac OS, they will
sing a different tune.

Huh? Could you be more specific how it's a rebranded Mac OS? You
perked my curiosity.

 

[optikl]

Did you perform all the tests?

I did all of them and eTrust missed some on download. Here are the
results I got.

* eicar.com - detected before downloading.

* eicar.com.text - not detected but loaded into browser.

* eicar.com.zip - not detected but downloaded. Detected when manually
scanned unzipped.

* eicarcom2.zip - not detected but downloaded. Detected when manually
scanned unzipped.

That's not so good, is it.

Actually, that's likely planned, to reduce the overhead of scanning
compressed files. You might want to review this writeup from Virus
Bulletin (see section on near misses). It describes the issue:

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/about/100procedure.xml