eTrust EZ ArmorSecurity Suite

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RoadRunner is currently giving free downloads for EZ Armor Securtiy Suite
from Computer Associates. Since my renewal for NortonAVand Norton Personal
Firewall are coming up, I would like to try the free stuff but I never heard
anything about it and can't find a recent review.

Does anyone have any experience or advice regarding this product

Art
 
Art said:
RoadRunner is currently giving free downloads for EZ Armor Securtiy Suite
from Computer Associates. Since my renewal for NortonAVand Norton Personal
Firewall are coming up, I would like to try the free stuff but I never heard
anything about it and can't find a recent review.

Does anyone have any experience or advice regarding this product

Art
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I've used the EZ Trust products. The EZ Armour Suite is probably every
bit as "effective" as Norton.
 
I've used E-Trust Anti-virus for years.. It was originally a free
Anti-virus program called InoculateIT and later 'morped' into
E-Trust..

I think it is a good program and includes a firewall and a mail
alert as well...
 
Thanks very much.

Art

JR said:
I've used E-Trust Anti-virus for years.. It was originally a free
Anti-virus program called InoculateIT and later 'morped' into
E-Trust..

I think it is a good program and includes a firewall and a mail
alert as well...
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JR said:
I've used E-Trust Anti-virus for years.. It was originally a free
Anti-virus program called InoculateIT and later 'morped' into
E-Trust..

I think it is a good program and includes a firewall and a mail
alert as well...
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The firewall appears to be ZoneAlarm but with the EZ trust name.
The format is the same as ZA. A friend just got the free offer and
showed it to me.
 
Netuser 58 said:
The firewall appears to be ZoneAlarm but with the EZ trust name.
The format is the same as ZA. A friend just got the free offer and
showed it to me.
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It is Zone Alarm......version 3.xxx I believe. I have used both EZ Trust
and ZA for years and recommend them both.

Heather
 
Art said:
RoadRunner is currently giving free downloads for EZ Armor Securtiy Suite
from Computer Associates. Since my renewal for NortonAVand Norton Personal
Firewall are coming up, I would like to try the free stuff but I never heard
anything about it and can't find a recent review.
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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).

If you like a small, fast setup, go with EZ Armor. I didn't like the virus
scanner so much even though it's small and fast so I bought McAfee's AV.
 
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).
Click to expand...

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.
 
Heather said:
It is Zone Alarm......version 3.xxx I believe. I have used both EZ Trust
and ZA for years and recommend them both.
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Anyone know if it has it been customised to bring its protection up to
date? ZA is at 4.5 now and I think earlier versions had a security issue
that had to be patched. Does the version in eTrust have this problem?
 
Art said:
RoadRunner is currently giving free downloads for EZ Armor Securtiy Suite
from Computer Associates. Since my renewal for NortonAVand Norton Personal
Firewall are coming up, I would like to try the free stuff but I never heard
anything about it and can't find a recent review.

Does anyone have any experience or advice regarding this product
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One thing I have noticed since moving to eTrust from AVG is the updates
are big. They seem to average 1.2MB whereas with AVG they were about
60k.
 
Anyone know if it has it been customised to bring its protection up to
date? ZA is at 4.5 now and I think earlier versions had a security issue
that had to be patched. Does the version in eTrust have this problem?

Version 3.x was not vulnerable, only 4.x was... It was regarding SMTP
traffic.
 
James C. said:
Anyone know if it has it been customised to bring its protection up to
date? ZA is at 4.5 now and I think earlier versions had a security issue
that had to be patched. Does the version in eTrust have this problem?

Version 3.x was not vulnerable, only 4.x was... It was regarding SMTP
traffic.
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Ah right, good to know, thanks.
 
I just upgraded and found that there is a program within EZAntivirus that is
called "Isafe" trying to access the internet. What is this?

Roland
 
Netuser 58 said:
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.
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Submitting the virus though doesn't always work. I have sent the same
trojan to EZTrust antivirus that they to this day still have not added, yet
other virus scanners detect it. I can also say the same thing for Avast,
they too do not add all that is submitted to them which is extremely stupid
as how can you have any faith in their product when they do this.
 
Just my thoughts on eTrust Armor Suite....

I also got it from RoadRunner. The program has NO e-mail support. No
email scanning for virus or trojans or worms.

What good is an antivirus program if it doesn't scan your incomming
email?

Just my own opinion.

ML
 
Just my thoughts on eTrust Armor Suite....

I also got it from RoadRunner. The program has NO e-mail support. No
email scanning for virus or trojans or worms.

What good is an antivirus program if it doesn't scan your incomming
email?

Just my own opinion.

ML
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I haven't been following this thread, but ... e-trust does
in fact check incoming email, just not outgoing, at least in
the freebie version. Don't know about the commercial stuff.
It sounds like RR gave you a subset of the thing; that
sucks. Go to California Associates site; they have it and
free and uncrippled. You get a decent firewall and
antivirus all in one package. After you get the program, be
sure to do an update for both the firewall and av. I've
been having bery good luck with it.
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