etrust EZ Armor

K

Keith Young

does anyone have any thoughts or advice on using CA's etrust EZ Armor suite
of programs (antivirus, firewall etc). It is offered for free by my ISP
(optimum Online) and I have downloaded and it is currently running.

Just wondering if these programs will give my brand new XP media center
system sufficient protection and if there are any downfalls or potential
problems in using these programs.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Keith
 
B

Bullwinkle Moose

No single AV product provides complete protection. I suggest you add it to
your AV program list and run several of these programs during the week. It
is never enough with all of the attacks going on.

Regards,
 
P

PopS

Keith Young said:
does anyone have any thoughts or advice on using CA's etrust EZ
Armor suite of programs (antivirus, firewall etc). It is
offered for free by my ISP (optimum Online) and I have
downloaded and it is currently running.

Just wondering if these programs will give my brand new XP
media center system sufficient protection and if there are any
downfalls or potential problems in using these programs.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Keith
Click to expand...
Actually, it's a decent implementation put together by California
Associates. IMO, it's on a par with most of the other good apps
around these days. They'll give you decent protection as any
other similar app would.
However, for spyware and malware, you will need more than the
one app. Adaware, Spybot S&D, Winpatrol, etc. etc.. There are
lots of good ones and most are still free. An arsenal of spyware
programs is as important as your firewall and antivirus, so don't
leve them out.

HTH<
Pop
 
P

PopS

NO, you don't run "several" -av- programs: You run multiple
spyware/malware programs; there's a big difference. AV programs
interfere with each other and can crash a system, plus only one
good one is nedded. Malware apps don't as a rule and aren't
resident either as a rule. They're run on-demand.

Pop
 
S

Stubby

I used it until I switched to Avast a few years ago. CA couldn't seem
to keep straight which of our 3 machines had renewed etc. Email for all
3 went to me (only) and didn't indicate which machine it was concerned
with. CA support line was no help.
 
T

tina

I have the exact same situation.. opt online and new xp media center
laptop,, i have EZ Armor antivirus and AVG av installed, and ZoneAlarm,,
and AdAware..
I hope that is enough ?

thanks for this news group..
Tina
 
C

Cymbal Man Freq.

On my Win 98SE machine, I tried the eTrust trial version for a month, then went
out and bought the real thing, eTrust Internet Security, at Staples for a low
rebated price. The Firewall subscription expired on the trial version 2 days
after I installed the Security Suite, so now I can't get the subscription of the
firewall of the Suite correct despite reinstallation. The AV updates OK and that
subscription is OK; but I have it on a schedule and if the computer isn't on
during the appropriate time, it has to be updated manually...usually a day or
two later when I get around to it.

I also have the unusual problem of having to boot into Safe Mode and restarting
from there to get into Windows because the boot process doesn't complete if the
machine has been off for more than a span of time (like 8 hours) and it hangs on
the Windows bootup screen that says Windows and the hard drive light goes
inactive. This has turned into a total PITA since I installed it 30 days ago. I
have no idea if booting into Safe Mode to get into Normal Mode would be required
in Win XP, but that would be even more of a PITA!

I do like the way the firewall alerts me about hack attacks. Probably 3000
attacks in one month between two users! Tally it up!



| I used it until I switched to Avast a few years ago. CA couldn't seem
| to keep straight which of our 3 machines had renewed etc. Email for all
| 3 went to me (only) and didn't indicate which machine it was concerned
| with. CA support line was no help.
|
|
| Keith Young wrote:
| > does anyone have any thoughts or advice on using CA's etrust EZ Armor suite
| > of programs (antivirus, firewall etc). It is offered for free by my ISP
| > (optimum Online) and I have downloaded and it is currently running.
| >
| > Just wondering if these programs will give my brand new XP media center
| > system sufficient protection and if there are any downfalls or potential
| > problems in using these programs.
| >
| > Thanks in advance for any help.
| >
| > Keith
| >
| >
| >
 
R

Rock

PopS said:
NO, you don't run "several" -av- programs: You run multiple
spyware/malware programs; there's a big difference. AV programs
interfere with each other and can crash a system, plus only one
good one is nedded. Malware apps don't as a rule and aren't
resident either as a rule. They're run on-demand.

Pop
Click to expand...

Depends on what you mean by run. If that means having more than one AV
program resident in memory doing on demand scanning, then no. But
having a second AV program installed to use for occasional scanning is
fine. The reason for it is the same as for anti-spyware apps. No one
program catches it all. Just don't have to AV programs running resident
in memory.
 
S

Stubby

Note that Computer Associates (CA) is only a marketing outfit that
bought EZ Armor suite. The technical smarts came from the original
authors. And, when EZ is given away, it is only for a year. Then you
must subscribe. My choice was to go with Avast.com Home Edition which
is free but must be renewed every year or so.
 
P

Patti

I really like the product--- got it free with a computer about 2 years ago
and keep renewing it-- the AV and anti-spyware are great but the firewall
out-of-the-box is in my opinion a little too tightly locked down. If you're
comfortable tweaking it on your own, you'll love it. I think it is a great
product. But if you are the kind of person who wants to install it and go,
and generally stick to the default settings, you might find it a little
frustrating.
 
C

Cymbal Man Freq.

Cymbal Man Freq. said:
I also have the unusual problem of having to boot into Safe Mode and
restarting from there to get into Windows because the boot process
doesn't complete if the machine has been off for more than a span of
time (like 8 hours) and it hangs on the Windows bootup screen that
says Windows and the hard drive light goes inactive. This has turned
into a total PITA since I installed it 30 days ago. I have no idea if
booting into Safe Mode to get into Normal Mode would be required in
Win XP, but that would be even more of a PITA!
Click to expand...

Maybe if I stop all internet activity in the firewall before shutting down the
machine, the tvdebug.log file won't keep writing as the machine shuts down. I'm
running a BackUPS battery here that constantly activates the firewall traffic
meters. Scandisk (Norton Disk Doctor) usually finds a corrupted tvdebug.log on
reboot if I don't stop all traffic before shutting down the computer.
 

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