1 year FREE trial of CA Anti-Virus

[Kayman]

1 year FREE trial of CA Anti-Virus
http://home3.ca.com/SubscriptCenter/MSTrialRegistration.aspx?cid=573

 

[Snapper]

Kayman formulated on Tuesday :

1 year FREE trial of CA Anti-Virus
http://home3.ca.com/SubscriptCenter/MSTrialRegistration.aspx?cid=573

Would not touch this product with a barge pole after my bad experiences
with previous incarnations. You would be much better of looking at
alternative products i.e avast

 

[Kayman]

They keep trying to push this junk and each time they don't get many
nibbles. No one is buying their junk. After using it free for awhile,
users get rid of it. It WILL refuse to load after a awhile. You won't
be able to get it to load. CA's tech support can't figure out how to
get it to load. Their solution is to uninstall and reinstall. Yeah,
right, time to move on to something a lot better and also free.

It's a shame, really. Only a couple of years ago or so, CA was one of
programs highly recommended by some of the resident experts here. I used to
run it and didn't have any issue then. Though their forum sux big-time
(maybe still is).

 

[Heather]

CA doesn't produce software. They aren't a developer. They buy
someone
else's software or rebundle it and put their name on it. Their
firewall
in their EzArmor bundle is a rebranded and older version of ZoneAlarm.
I don't know from where they get their anti-virus engine but do
remember
that they acquired it from somewhere else. I cannot remember ever
seeing it listed at av-comparative.com but then that site may be
rating
the source AV engine rather than the rebranded version of it.

It was originally the free Inoculate It PE.....I used it for a long
time. I got free copies for a few years of CA from Microsoft, but have
now switched to Avast. Not sure if they owned Inoculate It or bought
it. But it sure used to be a good one way back when!!

Cheers....Heather

 

[Dave Budd]

CA doesn't produce software. They aren't a developer. They buy someone
else's software or rebundle it and put their name on it. Their firewall
in their EzArmor bundle is a rebranded and older version of ZoneAlarm.
I don't know from where they get their anti-virus engine but do remember
that they acquired it from somewhere else. I cannot remember ever
seeing it listed at av-comparative.com but then that site may be rating
the source AV engine rather than the rebranded version of it.

They have 2 scanners in their package. One was the Inoculate-IT one, the
other was the Vet one. They suggest picking one for servers and one for
workstations, but via the management console you can assign either to
any machine or group of machines.
Before CA bought it, we used to use Vet here and it was pretty good back
then. I can't speak for what it's like now.

 

[MoiMoi]

No thanks. As you say Kayman it used to be good.
I used it when it was InoculateIT ...

Same here.
I also paid for it for 3 years or so, then one of the version changes
starting absolutely crashing my new XP box. And I mean BSOD, a tough
thing for software alone to do.
Support was a joke, they refunded me.
Been with free AVG since, fine.

MM