Jack said:
Norton was such a resource whore on my machine I decided to dump it and go
with the EZ Armor. It's like night and day. EZ Armor firewall is based on
Zone Alarm. The virus scanner is weak, though. It didn't detect one of
these "britney spears naked" type trojans that are all over the newsgroups
these days (I accidently went from one message thread to the next without
looking at the subject line -- be careful about that).
The best way to handle the detection problem is to download every
malicious file you can get that's posted in these newsgroups (create a
special folder for them) and submit them to EZ Armor for analysis if
they are not detected. Yes, they are trojans and worms and many new ones
at that, but if you don't execute them, you are safe. That's what I have
done with my av vendor (not EZ Armor) and it is working great.
Most people have the tendency to run from the newsgroups
when these things are posted - I did the same until just last week. I
downloaded one file just to see what type of malicious file it was. I
did NOT execute it of course. Nothing was detected, so I sent it to my
av vendor for analysis and got back a quick reply saying that detection
for that file was added. Now I look for anything I can grab when these
things are posted. If my av scanner doesn't detect anything the file
goes straight for analysis.
