[dba-Tech] security product testing

I have been using CA's eTrust AV on a couple of client networks for about a
year now. It has updated itself almost every day throughout the year. I use
the "pull" type update feature to check the server to check for updates
every 3 hours and the workstations to check the server for updates every so
many hours. Works slick as the time period when checking occurs is different
on every workstation by a few minutes so network traffic load is not
affected at all.

It is very stable and has a lower memory footprint than MacAfee, it also
seems to clear up some of those nagging problems that occurred for no reason
when McAfee was the AV.

It is easy to use/admin compared to Norton Corp. Edition.

Very satisfied with it. 

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CA's "EZ" home targeted security products are a bit different though so I've
been testing CA's EZ-AV, EZ-FW and Pest Patrol (which CA acquired last year)
on my main computer for about 2 months now.

Pest Patrol needs some UI work as CA has changed it a bit from the original
product but not enough. Updates work much better than the previous version.
And it does a great job on spy ware. I run the competition's scanners on my
machine every couple of weeks to see if it missed anything and so far only
ad ware cookies have turned up. So it would seem that they have improved
that too.

EZ-AV seems to be the same eTrust AV as the corporate edition with a more
"wizard-like UI" no complaints there.

EZ-FW is, from what I can tell-and I haven't been able to verify it yet,
Zone Alarm with a CA UI. That seems a bit odd but it would appear there is a
lot of partnering going on out there to combat Symantec's and McAfee's
security suites.


CA might be a big company that every loves to hate but their security
products are top notch

John B.