Re: is AVG a good virus scanner for XP Home?
From: Jeff W (msnews_at_Kwcpa.com)
Date: 10/19/04
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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:51:49 -0400
Yes - I agree - I tried installing the suite and the Firewall
installation (which I don't want and couldn't disable) went nutso so I
Killed it and went back to their site and found a download of
EZAntiVirus alone, and the key they gave me worked.
However - I benchmarked it against Mcafee and Norton. I REALLY wanted
to like EZAV. The interface was VERY nice, and it ran REALLY FAST.
However, I was disappoint to find that both Mcafee and Norton found a
number of trojans that EZAV didn't catch. M & N also provided worm
protection which I couldn't test but I don't think EZAV covers. Mcafee
also found a recent trojan that Norton missed, BTW.
(Here's what I did - a full backup of my kids machine, protected only by
an old copy of mcafee and I just discovered he wasn't updating, had a
number of viruses, trojans, adware, etc in it - I ran all 3 scanners on
the ZIP file of the backup - Mcafee found the most, Norton almost as
good, but EZAV didn't find anything that wasn't strictly a virus).
Bummer - it's a great program to use
/j
Vanguardx wrote:
>"Jeff W" <msnews@Kwcpa.com>
>wrote in news:el7r9mssEHA.3600@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:
>> so will i have to start paying for updates?
>>
>> might be good to try for a while though -t hanks!
>> /j
>>
>> GTS wrote:
>>
>>> It's normally sold at $29.95. Microsoft and Computer Associates
>>> made some kind of deal and a free version including 1 year
>>> subscription is available at http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/
>>> That will probably not be available indefinitely.
>>> The package is EZ Armor which includes a branded version of Zone
>>> Alarm. When you run the actual install, you can optionally install
>>> both or just the AV.
>
>As said, it is a 1-year free subscription. You get to use it for a
>year. After that, you will have to *buy* another subscription. I
>believe that the free offer will be discontinued around February 2005
>(don't remember where I read that). The subscription will continue to
>whenever it expires after a year of you installing it, but you won't be
>able to download the no-cost copy of it after that.
>
>Rather than use the branded version of ZoneAlarm included in EzArmor
>(firewall + anti-virus), you can just install the anti-virus portion of
>it. You can also download EzAntiVirus and EzFirewall to get just the
>component you want. I would suggest just using their anti-virus product
>(it used to be their InoculateIT anti-virus product). For the firewall,
>just go to ZoneLabs to download the 5.1 version (which fixes problems
>they had for version 5.0) since the branded version included in EzArmor
>or EzFirewall might be an older version. Or go use Sygate's free
>personal firewall (smb.sygate.com). While Sygate has some nice security
>features more than ZoneAlarm, there are some behaviors of Sygate that I
>don't like (I'm also "Vanguard" under the Sygate forums at
>http://forums.sygate.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=8) and might end
>up going with ZoneAlarm.
>
>
>
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