I was going to install this seeing as the nice ISP people are giving it out free, but I’m generally worried about things that are qualified by “EZ” (then again, for all I know, maybe it stands for “extremely ztupendous”). I read some reviews and got some mixed feedback: apparently for institutional testing folks, it works great, but they rarely give it paticularly high rankings (cnet gave it 7.3 while praising how much better it was than everything except PC-Cilin. They claimed it was because EZ AV doesn’t offer a firewall, but seriously, it’s an anti-virus program) while reviews by home users talk about how unstable it is.
Normally, I’d ignore the home users beacause they typically don’t know what they’re doing, but I also, after reading some reviews about how awesome Avast was, I downloaded that and it kept locking up the computer, not to mention putting a keylogger on and dragging performance when it was wasn’t locking the damn thing.
Anyone else use it? Worth the free download?
Let me add that I’m completely paranoid and cheap as hell, which may not be the best comibination. Currently I run AVG and occasionally use PcCillin’s online house call to make sure AVG’s not missing anything. Is that enough, or would using either AVG or EZ as the realtime scanner and the other two as occasional backup be better?
I got the spyware covered pretty good though.
As long as you are careful about opening attachments, and use a firewall, then running scans of AVG alone should be more than enough to keep you virus free. (This is what I do.)
I’ve been virus-free (as far as I know) for a while using just AVG.
But, it’s always possible that one is infected with something that doesn’t cause any symptoms.
Do’h! Pc-Cillin’s online house call found something that AVG did not, even after I made sure it was up to date.
I don’t think it was a virus, but java malware that tried to redirect my home page. Because my Windows OS is up to date, the vulnerability it took advantage of wasn’t there anymore, so it was failing to redirect me anyway.
But the damn PC-Cillin failed to clean or quarantine the file, and the display window was too small for me to see the full path to infected file(s)! I had to download the 30 day trial of the Trend Micro Internet Security app and scan with that to see the full path so I could kill the file.
Ah, update Windows. That’s something I haven’t done in…ever. We’ll see how it goes. It’s probably a good idea since we already know that I’m paranoid. Despite the fact that several things seem to have not installed properly…we’ll see how it works. Probably should have set a System Restore point. Not that that works anyway.
I’ve been running ETrust EZ AV (and InoculateIT PE before that) on two PC’s for over a year with no issues (and only one leaked virus that got me before the sigs updated) whatsoever.
It’s based on both the VET antivirus and the ETrust InoculateIT engine (which is a leading corporate AV solution). My experience of CA is that they are responsive and professional.
If it is free, get it and use it - and the yearly upgrades are pretty darn cheap too.
Simon