Anti virus software reviews 2005

I returned six, as confirmed by the CA site, however the software never recognized the update. OK, a little frustrating, but I'm sure they have run into this before. Who would know? I had similar experiences with their ArcServe backup software a few years back the… Read Full Review. My antivirus is always automatically up to date but a virus got past 'EZ antivirus ' and disabled it, I am pretty clued up on computers but I was unable to fix it.

Computer Associates were very unhelpfull. I now use a different Antivirus… Read Full Review. I'm a network administrator - I have dozens of servers and hundreds of computers that must be kept safe from viruses. CA ETrust is running on all my servers and workstations. Over 7 years I have yet to lose one file or one computer to a virus.

I can configure ETrust to download new definitions every 10 minutes if I want to, or every 6 hours which is more realistic. I can watch the signatures come down, check them, decide what to do with viruses that are found, etc. Real-time mode is… Read Full Review. EZ Antivirus came recommended to me by a Microsoft employee.

It is apparently commonplace in the Microsoft offices. I must say that I let this cloud my judgement, I theorised that if MS use it, it must work well with Windows. I didn't take into account however, that offices are strange places, and even in the MS offices, decisions can be made by the wrong person. EZ has the appearance of a very low maintenance, compact program. It it easy to install, and comes in a very small package to… Read Full Review.

EZ Antivirus has a feature called Snooze. It disables the real-time protection for a user specified period 1 to 99 minutes , which is great for new software installations or to troubleshoot a system problem. There is no Quarantine function for infected, uncleanable files. Archive formats support is terrible, it only scans single level ZIP-files with no support for self-extracting archives also cannot scans protected compressed files… Read Full Review.

Since then my PC is working normally free from virus The only problem that I had encountered is that EZTrust isn't so good with spywares and adwares Recently I downloaded the Microsoft AntiSpyware and began scanning my files The MS antispyware had detected three 3 infections But still needs some improvements : Thanks!

From 6 reviews. Norton's clean, well-organized interface remains one of the best in the antivirus biz, and we're pleased to see it's mostly unchanged. One noteworthy upgrade is the Protection Alert screen; it allows you to specify a period of inactivity when disabling Norton's real-time virus scanner--a necessary evil when installing some programs. Simply right-click the Norton icon in the Windows Taskbar, click Disable Auto-Protect, and select a period of shutdown time minutes, 1 hour, 5 hours, or until the system restarts.

This is important because many users forget to turn the scanner back on. Unfortunately, our test PC replied to the ShieldsUp Ping requests, meaning our computer was visible to the Internet--not good.

Typically, a computer running a full-on firewall won't respond to pings. Even with Worm Protection, Norton users will still need a firewall. Like its predecessor, Norton AntiVirus scans for hidden spyware threats, including adware, dialers, and keystroke loggers that record every key you tap. Unfortunately, its real-time scanner doesn't detect spyware; rather, Norton spots these menaces during only a full system scan or a Quick Scan, the latter of which runs immediately after virus-definition downloads.

Overall scanning speed was respectable. In our informal tests, Norton took 37 minutes to scan a 12GB partition.

We did not run the office productivity portion of the benchmark because it incorporates McAfee VirusScan 5. With Norton AntiVirus running, our test system scored 94 percent--meaning a 6 percent reduction in overall system speed. By comparison, McAfee also scored a An Internet-content-creation score of represents the performance of our test system without any extraneous software running. In a test of scanning speed, Norton AntiVirus took an average of 6.

Norton AntiVirus has been tested on Windows desktop systems 10 times since November by the independent testing organization VirusBulletin and earned its coveted VB Percent title each time. Symantec's help site also includes the Automated Support Assistant, a downloadable utility that scans Norton AntiVirus for known problems. However, the assistant needs more tooling. For example, when we disabled Auto-Protect, Norton's real-time virus scanner, the Automated Support Assistant reported no irregularities on our system--oops.