eTrust EZ Antivirus

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To All:

I originally posted this in alt.privacy.spyware which I follow regularly and
I have had a limited response.

To All:

My Norton Antivirus (2002) is up to for it's annual renewal and I am
considering going back to eTrust EZ Antivirus. My old PC ran Inoculate and
then eTrust EZ Antivirus for about 2 years which I was quite pleased with.
Then CAI revised the program and it was a major disappointment, with lots of
crashes and a GUI which stank.

When I got a new PC, it came loaded with NAV 2002, which is a bit of a
resource hog, but had some features that eTrust EZ Antivirus did not have
such as bi-directional email screening.

From the alt.privacy.spyware NG, I have heard that CAI has gone back to the
old Inoculate for eTrust EZ Antivirus. Is this true?

The old Inoculate did not have email screening. Does eTrust EZ Antivirus do
email screening?

Thanks,

Steve
 
Steve said:
From the alt.privacy.spyware NG, I have heard that CAI has gone back to the
old Inoculate for eTrust EZ Antivirus. Is this true?
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Not that I know of........I have used it since the freebie InoculateIT
days and they just came out with a slightly newer version......I frankly
don't see much difference........but I prefer it over other a-v's.
The old Inoculate did not have email screening. Does eTrust EZ Antivirus do
email screening?
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If you mean 'screening while it is downloading'.......no. And I prefer
that. I got 4 or 5 viruses using Norton.......I have never gotten them
using EZ Trust. However, safe hex beats it all. I make sure that any
attachment email goes into its own folder, for instance.......then check
it.

Heather
 
Steve said:
To All:

I originally posted this in alt.privacy.spyware which I follow regularly and
I have had a limited response.

To All:

My Norton Antivirus (2002) is up to for it's annual renewal and I am
considering going back to eTrust EZ Antivirus. My old PC ran Inoculate and
then eTrust EZ Antivirus for about 2 years which I was quite pleased with.
Then CAI revised the program and it was a major disappointment, with lots of
crashes and a GUI which stank.

When I got a new PC, it came loaded with NAV 2002, which is a bit of a
resource hog, but had some features that eTrust EZ Antivirus did not have
such as bi-directional email screening.
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From the alt.privacy.spyware NG, I have heard that CAI has gone back to the
old Inoculate for eTrust EZ Antivirus. Is this true?

The old Inoculate did not have email screening. Does eTrust EZ Antivirus do
email screening?
Click to expand...


Not bi-directional but accoding to the help file it does the following:

eTrust EZ Antivirus's Real-Time protection checks and cleans any infected
e-mail attachments when you open them.
 
Version 6.2.x of EZ-Antivirus [which is in beta and likely will be released
soon I understand] does support inbound email POP3 scanning.
Coincidentally, I just tested that feature this morning and it works very
nicely - a popup window appears as soon as the email is received (NOT when
you attempt to open the item). It also appears to replace the virulent
attachment with a txt file outlining the results of the virus detection.

cheers.
 
Heather said:
Not that I know of........I have used it since the freebie InoculateIT
days and they just came out with a slightly newer version......I
frankly don't see much difference........but I prefer it over other
a-v's.

If you mean 'screening while it is downloading'.......no. And I
prefer that. I got 4 or 5 viruses using Norton.......I have never
gotten them using EZ Trust. However, safe hex beats it all. I make
sure that any attachment email goes into its own folder, for
instance.......then check it.

Heather
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Heather:

Thanks for the RE: I too have gotten a few viruses using NAV but none when
I used InoculateIT or eTrust EZ Antivirus which is why I am considering
going back. I do like the 'screening while it is downloading' of NAV which
eTrust EZ Antivirus does not have. I have a rule to highlight all messages
with attachments so that I do not easily open them.

Steve
 
I'm not sure I'm following you guys. The original post could have been
witten by me, same scenerio. I only ever saw one virus attempt that I know
of but Eztrust warned during the email download. Forget name of virus.
When my new machine with Norton installed caught the Swen virus, out of
curiosity I used a duplicate partition to delete Norton, installed Eztrust,
updated (my registration is still good) and tested dowload of Swen. Eztrust
detected it. So I have to assume it does check download of attachments
(wouldn't be very useful if it did not). I registerd Norton, but might
eventually switch back to Eztrust.
Dave Cohen

Kerry Liles said:
Version 6.2.x of EZ-Antivirus [which is in beta and likely will be released
soon I understand] does support inbound email POP3 scanning.
Coincidentally, I just tested that feature this morning and it works very
nicely - a popup window appears as soon as the email is received (NOT when
you attempt to open the item). It also appears to replace the virulent
attachment with a txt file outlining the results of the virus detection.

cheers.


Steve said:
To All:

I originally posted this in alt.privacy.spyware which I follow regularly and
I have had a limited response.

To All:

My Norton Antivirus (2002) is up to for it's annual renewal and I am
considering going back to eTrust EZ Antivirus. My old PC ran Inoculate and
then eTrust EZ Antivirus for about 2 years which I was quite pleased with.
Then CAI revised the program and it was a major disappointment, with
Click to expand...
lots
of
crashes and a GUI which stank.

When I got a new PC, it came loaded with NAV 2002, which is a bit of a
resource hog, but had some features that eTrust EZ Antivirus did not have
such as bi-directional email screening.

From the alt.privacy.spyware NG, I have heard that CAI has gone back to the
old Inoculate for eTrust EZ Antivirus. Is this true?

The old Inoculate did not have email screening. Does eTrust EZ
Click to expand...
Antivirus
do
email screening?

Thanks,

Steve
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The current version of EZ-av only checks an email attachment WHEN you open
it or attempt to save it (via 'right-click', 'save as' for example). The
upcoming version (6.2.x) actually hooks into your email processing to check
attachments when the email message is received and will automatically
scan attachments whether or not you decide to open the mail message or not.
That is the difference (6.2 is more proactive in that regard).

Now, some folks might prefer not to leap on attachments unless they
specifically open or save the file (saving the file implies 'opening' it to
read it) since there is a chance that EZ-av might generate a false positive
and thereby deprive you of access to the attachment. On the other hand, it
could be argued that automaticaly scanning incoming mail (and soon: outgoing
too) might be considered a proactive approach especially suitable for the
naive user. To each their own.

I think this is the difference between the two responses...


Dave Cohen said:
I'm not sure I'm following you guys. The original post could have been
witten by me, same scenerio. I only ever saw one virus attempt that I know
of but Eztrust warned during the email download. Forget name of virus.
When my new machine with Norton installed caught the Swen virus, out of
curiosity I used a duplicate partition to delete Norton, installed Eztrust,
updated (my registration is still good) and tested dowload of Swen. Eztrust
detected it. So I have to assume it does check download of attachments
(wouldn't be very useful if it did not). I registerd Norton, but might
eventually switch back to Eztrust.
Dave Cohen

Kerry Liles said:
Version 6.2.x of EZ-Antivirus [which is in beta and likely will be released
soon I understand] does support inbound email POP3 scanning.
Coincidentally, I just tested that feature this morning and it works very
nicely - a popup window appears as soon as the email is received (NOT when
you attempt to open the item). It also appears to replace the virulent
attachment with a txt file outlining the results of the virus detection.

cheers.


Steve said:
To All:

I originally posted this in alt.privacy.spyware which I follow
Click to expand...
regularly
and
I have had a limited response.

To All:

My Norton Antivirus (2002) is up to for it's annual renewal and I am
considering going back to eTrust EZ Antivirus. My old PC ran
Click to expand...
Inoculate
and
then eTrust EZ Antivirus for about 2 years which I was quite pleased with.
Then CAI revised the program and it was a major disappointment, with
Click to expand...
lots
of
crashes and a GUI which stank.

When I got a new PC, it came loaded with NAV 2002, which is a bit of a
resource hog, but had some features that eTrust EZ Antivirus did not have
such as bi-directional email screening.

From the alt.privacy.spyware NG, I have heard that CAI has gone back
Click to expand...
to
the
old Inoculate for eTrust EZ Antivirus. Is this true?

The old Inoculate did not have email screening. Does eTrust EZ
Click to expand...
Antivirus
do
email screening?

Thanks,

Steve
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Thanks for the info on the upcoming version. I prefer to check out any
viral attachment myself......so you are right there. Mailwasher alerts
me to a possible viral attachment as it is. I get so damn much spam now
that I am using it all the time. Which royally ticks me off......why
should we be captive to these a$$holes that send spam and
porn.......rhetorical question, I guess!!

FWIW.....I got a Paypal request for my private information 2 days ago.
With an attachment. Said to open the attachment to re-send my personal
information. (is the word 'dummy' written on my forehead, grin??).

I put it into Spamcop.....which told me it was a virus. So, as I use
WinME and don't want EZ Trust to throw the virus into my System Restore,
I emailed it to both my Hotmail and Yahoo account in order to verify it.
Hotmail's McAfee did NOT react to it......said it wasn't a virus. Yahoo
got it immediately.......the virus was 'Mimail'.

So be careful with Hotmail.......their antivirus checking is the pits!!

Just some trivia for your information........

Heather

Kerry Liles said:
The current version of EZ-av only checks an email attachment WHEN you open
it or attempt to save it (via 'right-click', 'save as' for example). The
upcoming version (6.2.x) actually hooks into your email processing to check
attachments when the email message is received and will automatically
scan attachments whether or not you decide to open the mail message or not.
That is the difference (6.2 is more proactive in that regard).

Now, some folks might prefer not to leap on attachments unless they
specifically open or save the file (saving the file implies 'opening' it to
read it) since there is a chance that EZ-av might generate a false positive
and thereby deprive you of access to the attachment. On the other hand, it
could be argued that automaticaly scanning incoming mail (and soon: outgoing
too) might be considered a proactive approach especially suitable for the
naive user. To each their own.

I think this is the difference between the two responses...


Dave Cohen said:
I'm not sure I'm following you guys. The original post could have been
witten by me, same scenerio. I only ever saw one virus attempt that I know
of but Eztrust warned during the email download. Forget name of virus.
When my new machine with Norton installed caught the Swen virus, out of
curiosity I used a duplicate partition to delete Norton, installed Eztrust,
updated (my registration is still good) and tested dowload of Swen. Eztrust
detected it. So I have to assume it does check download of attachments
(wouldn't be very useful if it did not). I registerd Norton, but might
eventually switch back to Eztrust.
Dave Cohen

Kerry Liles said:
Version 6.2.x of EZ-Antivirus [which is in beta and likely will be released
soon I understand] does support inbound email POP3 scanning.
Coincidentally, I just tested that feature this morning and it
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