etrust any good?

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Does anyone have experience of the etrust antivirus & firewall software that
MS give away on their XP update CD or download option? How does it rate?

Or alternatively, what are the best independent sites for comparing AV
products?

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Regular E-trust comes with 2 different scanners, Vet and Inocculate, both
are quite good. I prefer Symantec Corp myself because of reduced resource
use (like 13,000k vs about 21,000k for Etrust). But Etrust is without doubt
in the top tier of scanners.

About the firewall- it depends on what you want the firewall to do. In spite
of what you might hear, virtually all PFW's are equivalent at intrusion
blocking. They differ substantially in detecting and stopping trojan/worm
programs from getting out.
But if you are not concerned with this (you trust your AV to block these
things getting on your computer in the first place) etrust FW is good. If
you're paranoid, stick with outpost or look n stop (or Kerio).

ps- I'm not pulling the above out of my hat. The University that I go to has
abn ongoing project testing AV and PFW products, and I base my opinions on
the results so far.
 
Me said:
Does anyone have experience of the etrust antivirus & firewall software that
MS give away on their XP update CD or download option? How does it rate?

Or alternatively, what are the best independent sites for comparing AV
products?
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I have used EZ Trust for 3 years or more and it is good and not expensive.

The firewall being given away is a version 3.xxx of Zone Alarm.....which is
good too......unless you use WinME. Version 3.xxx caused problems in that
we couldn't make auto restore points for System Restore. So I stayed with
version 2.6 until recently and now use 4.58 of ZAPro.

I would highly recommend both of them....and if you can get it for free,
then go for it.

Heather
 
Howdy all



I was delighted to be given the opportunity to try eTrust, particularly
because I'm having a problem with my cable connection dropping out because
of the heartbeat packets (another story that I won't trouble you with). I
thought that a different firewall may cure all ills.



The installation program that I downloaded removed ZoneAlarm from my system
without my knowledge, and didn't replace it with the EZ Firewall. I can't
even uninstall Zone Alarm myself without being rigorously interrogated.
After rerunning the installation program, the Firewall did install
successfully but it became apparent that EZ Firewall is just a rebadged
ZoneAlarm anyway.



I missed any chance to "evaluate" the AV program, because as far as I'm
concerned CA have shown their true colors by their unconscionable and
immoral actions. An evaluation version, to me, says "This is what you can
expect from our software". Perhaps you could argue that CA gave me more
than I expected!! The upshot is that I uninstalled eTrust and reinstalled
Norton and ZoneAlarm.



What happened to me would probably rate as some of the worst behaviour for a
so-called reputable program. CA's name is mud in my book, and I will
certainly never (e)trust them again.





JB
 
What happened to me would probably rate as some of the worst behaviour for a
so-called reputable program. CA's name is mud in my book, and I will
certainly never (e)trust them again.
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I can concur with a general distrust of CA although my experiences
were with their backup software. Their marketing people dishonest,
their support people incompetent, their software crap.

Hal
 
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