EZ Armor eTrust?

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Morey G.

I was wondering if anyone is currently using this product and what their
experience is. Roadrunner has recently made this available to their
subscribers at no charge and I am wondering if it's worth switching from
Norton AV 2004, which I currently use, to this. I have 5 PC's, 3 running
Win XP Home, 2 with XP Pro. It's not that I've had any problem with Norton
(none that I am aware of anyway), it's just that Norton does have a TON of
service running at start-up and I have heard there's better out there.
Thanks in advance for any responses and best regards,
Morey G
 
I have used EZ Trust (and the prior free one InoculateIT PE) for about 4
years. I like it because it is not a space hog and I don't need all the
Norton bells and whistles. It also doesn't have a 'ton of stuff'
running at startup. I prefer to keep this computer 'lean and mean'.
(G)

I believe that the freebie is the one that EZ Trust is offering to the
general public which includes version 3.xxx of Zone Alarm as a firewall.
I use ZA as well. Not a bad deal considering I pay for my defs.

EZ does not scan email as it is downloading.......but should you try to
click on a virus attachment, it activates immediately. It doesn't scan
outgoing mail either (a stupid feature in my book).

If you had been using WinME as I do (and it is a good O/S!!), the 3.xxx
version of Zone Alarm prevents a lot of us from making automatic restore
points......so I stay with a 2.xxx version. Works just fine. I suppose
I could update to 4.5 in ZA, but hey.....if it ain't broke......

All in all, I am very happy with EZ Trust. As for Norton, I had a
defective one as a newbie and got 4 viruses!! I also use F-Prot for DOS
as a manual backup.

Hmm, wrote more than I intended to......grin.

Cheers.......Heather
 
I would concur with Heather's comments (except the one about
WinMiniMe being an Operating System - let alone a *good* one -
but I digress).

EZ-Av has very very low cpu usage and small memory footprint
and, provided you keep it up to date with autodownload set to
automatic, very reliable. CA issues very timely new sig files. I
have mine set to autodownload every hour and I never even notice
it running! (you do have to uncheck the interactive update so
that you don't get the annoying confirmation dialogue box).

As for scanning outgoing email - I would agree that is a
placebo: whoever receives my email should definitely not count
on me having the latest signatures - regardless of what the
auto-generated sig might say! I guess that feature was put in as
a result of marketing pressures. It makes no sense to me.

CA's EZ-Av is economical (free for 1 year at the moment; you can
uninstall the lame version of Zonealarm that is bundled with it)
and upgrades are US $10 a year - I just renewed. I would highly
recommend it. Norton (Symantec) is BLOATware by comparison...
 
Thanks to you both for the responses. Am I to understand it does NOT scan
incoming e-mail, or is it just outgoing? I'm a bit confused by this. I have
been using Zone Alarm since I found out about it a couple of years ago, but
I have not gone past version 3.7.098 simply because I am behind a router
and ZA seems to be that extra bit of overkill(?).
The version of EZ Armor from Roadrunner is unclear from their web page, but
I am going to install it anyway. Do I need to remove ZA first??
Thanks again,
Morey
 
EZ-AV does NOT scan incoming mail - at least not directly as it
is received (and this is what I presume you are thinking of).
However, as Heather pointed out [I think] as soon as you make
use of any attachment (for example, right clicking on it and
attempting to "save" it somewhere or even attempting to launch
the attachment - in short, ANY attempt to OPEN the attachment
for any reason) then EZ-av's realtime monitoring will scan it.

The router provides a very useful level of protection because it
provides Network Address Translation (NAT) which hides your
individual machine addresses behind your public IP, and I would
hope your router does some minmal stateful inspection and other
fundamental firewall stuff. Zone Alarm can be used to provide
another layer of protection and gives you the added ability to
see and log some things. ZA also provides OUTBOUND protection
which the router likely does not.

I'll let others who use ZA help you with the uninstall question,
but I would think that if some version of ZA is being installed
along with EZ-AV from Roadrunnner, then it would be smart enough
to deal with an existing install of ZA...

HTH
 
Kerry,
Thanks. Now I'm clear on the e-mail question. As for ZA, my guess is the
same as yours, it SHOULD be smart enough to deal with earlier/later
editions.
Thanks again and regards,
Morey
Kerry Liles said:
EZ-AV does NOT scan incoming mail - at least not directly as it
is received (and this is what I presume you are thinking of).
However, as Heather pointed out [I think] as soon as you make
use of any attachment (for example, right clicking on it and
attempting to "save" it somewhere or even attempting to launch
the attachment - in short, ANY attempt to OPEN the attachment
for any reason) then EZ-av's realtime monitoring will scan it.

The router provides a very useful level of protection because it
provides Network Address Translation (NAT) which hides your
individual machine addresses behind your public IP, and I would
hope your router does some minmal stateful inspection and other
fundamental firewall stuff. Zone Alarm can be used to provide
another layer of protection and gives you the added ability to
see and log some things. ZA also provides OUTBOUND protection
which the router likely does not.

I'll let others who use ZA help you with the uninstall question,
but I would think that if some version of ZA is being installed
along with EZ-AV from Roadrunnner, then it would be smart enough
to deal with an existing install of ZA...

HTH






Morey G. said:
Thanks to you both for the responses. Am I to understand it does NOT scan
incoming e-mail, or is it just outgoing? I'm a bit confused by this. I have
been using Zone Alarm since I found out about it a couple of years ago, but
I have not gone past version 3.7.098 simply because I am behind a router
and ZA seems to be that extra bit of overkill(?).
The version of EZ Armor from Roadrunner is unclear from their web page, but
I am going to install it anyway. Do I need to remove ZA first??
Thanks again,
Morey
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REMOVE the old version of ZA......there are instructions on the website.
Like you, I am using an older version (mine is a 2.xxx) and I would
absolutely remove it before putting 4.58 on. I will give you the link
for the removal instructions. A clean install is much better with that
program.

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conte...3!7551!7552!-1908962926!-1062696904!7551!7552

And I thought my email was clear......grin. EZ Trust does NOT scan
email as it downloads onto your computer, but should you be foolish
enough to click on a viral attachment, it will prevent you from opening
it.

FWIW.....if you use WinME (as I do).....opening a virus attachment in OE
will then throw a copy into the System Restore backups. So I prefer to
practice safe hex and NOT open suspicious attachments. I have other
ways of checking them that don't interfere with the _Restore Folder.

Hope this is clear....if not, let me know.

Best.....Heather

Morey G. said:
Kerry,
Thanks. Now I'm clear on the e-mail question. As for ZA, my guess is the
same as yours, it SHOULD be smart enough to deal with earlier/later
editions.
Thanks again and regards,
Morey
Kerry Liles said:
EZ-AV does NOT scan incoming mail - at least not directly as it
is received (and this is what I presume you are thinking of).
However, as Heather pointed out [I think] as soon as you make
use of any attachment (for example, right clicking on it and
attempting to "save" it somewhere or even attempting to launch
the attachment - in short, ANY attempt to OPEN the attachment
for any reason) then EZ-av's realtime monitoring will scan it.

The router provides a very useful level of protection because it
provides Network Address Translation (NAT) which hides your
individual machine addresses behind your public IP, and I would
hope your router does some minmal stateful inspection and other
fundamental firewall stuff. Zone Alarm can be used to provide
another layer of protection and gives you the added ability to
see and log some things. ZA also provides OUTBOUND protection
which the router likely does not.

I'll let others who use ZA help you with the uninstall question,
but I would think that if some version of ZA is being installed
along with EZ-AV from Roadrunnner, then it would be smart enough
to deal with an existing install of ZA...

HTH






Morey G. said:
Thanks to you both for the responses. Am I to understand it does NOT scan
incoming e-mail, or is it just outgoing? I'm a bit confused by this. I have
been using Zone Alarm since I found out about it a couple of years ago, but
I have not gone past version 3.7.098 simply because I am behind a router
and ZA seems to be that extra bit of overkill(?).
The version of EZ Armor from Roadrunner is unclear from their web page, but
I am going to install it anyway. Do I need to remove ZA first??
Thanks again,
Morey

I would concur with Heather's comments (except the one about
WinMiniMe being an Operating System - let alone a *good* one -
but I digress).

EZ-Av has very very low cpu usage and small memory footprint
and, provided you keep it up to date with autodownload set to
automatic, very reliable. CA issues very timely new sig files. I
have mine set to autodownload every hour and I never even notice
it running! (you do have to uncheck the interactive update so
that you don't get the annoying confirmation dialogue box).

As for scanning outgoing email - I would agree that is a
placebo: whoever receives my email should definitely not count
on me having the latest signatures - regardless of what the
auto-generated sig might say! I guess that feature was put in as
a result of marketing pressures. It makes no sense to me.

CA's EZ-Av is economical (free for 1 year at the moment; you can
uninstall the lame version of Zonealarm that is bundled with it)
and upgrades are US $10 a year - I just renewed. I would highly
recommend it. Norton (Symantec) is BLOATware by comparison...



I have used EZ Trust (and the prior free one InoculateIT PE)
for about 4
years. I like it because it is not a space hog and I don't
need all the
Norton bells and whistles. It also doesn't have a 'ton of
stuff'
running at startup. I prefer to keep this computer 'lean and
mean'.
(G)

I believe that the freebie is the one that EZ Trust is
offering to the
general public which includes version 3.xxx of Zone Alarm as a
firewall.
I use ZA as well. Not a bad deal considering I pay for my
defs.

EZ does not scan email as it is downloading.......but should
you try to
click on a virus attachment, it activates immediately. It
doesn't scan
outgoing mail either (a stupid feature in my book).

If you had been using WinME as I do (and it is a good O/S!!),
the 3.xxx
version of Zone Alarm prevents a lot of us from making
automatic restore
points......so I stay with a 2.xxx version. Works just fine.
I suppose
I could update to 4.5 in ZA, but hey.....if it ain't
broke......

All in all, I am very happy with EZ Trust. As for Norton, I
had a
defective one as a newbie and got 4 viruses!! I also use
F-Prot for DOS
as a manual backup.

Hmm, wrote more than I intended to......grin.

Cheers.......Heather
I was wondering if anyone is currently using this product
and what
their
experience is. Roadrunner has recently made this available
to their
subscribers at no charge and I am wondering if it's worth
switching
from
Norton AV 2004, which I currently use, to this. I have 5
PC's, 3
running
Win XP Home, 2 with XP Pro. It's not that I've had any
problem with
Norton
(none that I am aware of anyway), it's just that Norton does
have a
TON of
service running at start-up and I have heard there's better
out there.
Thanks in advance for any responses and best regards,
Morey G
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