Re: Antivirus - CA E-trust or Avast?

[David H. Lipman]

From: <lalinda@yahoonospam.com>

| I've been seeing Avast taking a hit in these groups and I'm wondering
| if E-trust is any CA's E-trust AV is any better?
|
| I thought that Avast with all its shields prevents alot of malware and
| trojans, which seem to be the major problem on the web today.
|
| How about the CA E-trust firewall product?
|
| I know that most are going to say that the best are NOD32 or Kaspersky, but
| I have the option of getting E-trust and Avast quickly. What's the better
| of the two?

Kaspersky or NOD32 are suggested.
If you *must* use a free anti virus, rather than a paid for solution, Avira AntiVir is
suggested.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

[lalinda@yahoonospam.com]

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in
news:8%Q%g.81190$073.6243@trnddc01:

> If you *must* use a free anti virus, rather than a paid for solution,
> Avira AntiVir is suggested.

How is Avira doing in the magazine and site reviews in comparison to Avast,
AVG, Norton, and the leaders - NOD32 and Kaspersky?

Is there anyway to have two AV programs downloaded and installed with one
scanning and the other only opened and run when asked? It seems that the
instant you open these programs (after removing their startup commands from
the registry), they throw a string back in there and move into startup
again.

[David H. Lipman]

From: <lalinda@yahoonospam.com>

| "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in
| news:8%Q%g.81190$073.6243@trnddc01:
|
>> If you *must* use a free anti virus, rather than a paid for solution,
>> Avira AntiVir is suggested.
|
| How is Avira doing in the magazine and site reviews in comparison to Avast,
| AVG, Norton, and the leaders - NOD32 and Kaspersky?
|
| Is there anyway to have two AV programs downloaded and installed with one
| scanning and the other only opened and run when asked? It seems that the
| instant you open these programs (after removing their startup commands from
| the registry), they throw a string back in there and move into startup
| again.

I don'r read reviews. I just know it is better in *many* ways.

Having two fully installed anti virus products installed is contrindicated and should NOT be
done.

You can have one fully installed AV software application installed performing "On Access"
and "On Demand" scannning and othe "On Demand" scanners.

That is why I wrote the Multi AV Scanning Tool which provides four "On Demand" and to virus
scanners...


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm

Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *



--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm