Is CA EZ Antivirus any good?

kurt wismer a écrit :

> will not use an on-access scanner that slows their system to a crawl...

Some will... I don't know how some people manage to actually work with
their computers. They have tons of anti-this and anti-that software
installed and everything takes forever.

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:25:31 +0200, Frederic Bonroy
<bidonavirus.DeleteThis@yahoo.fr> wrote:

>kurt wismer a écrit :
>
>> will not use an on-access scanner that slows their system to a crawl...
>
>Some will... I don't know how some people manage to actually work with
>their computers. They have tons of anti-this and anti-that software
>installed and everything takes forever.

That's what all those GHz are for.

I had McAfee AV on a 500 MHz K6-II and it would work without bogging
things down as long as I only scanned executables. When I told it to
scan everything on-access, the machine would slow down a bit.
Unfortunately there is no "already-scanned bit" like the "archive bit"
so McAfee would scan anything I opened even if it had been scanned a
zillion times before.

Then Kerio Personal Firewall had to stick its nose in to check if the
M5D was good and if the executable was trying to establish a network
connection. And with email the spam agent MailWasher would also get
into the act. It was amazing that old K6-II could keep up, what with
it not having any L2 cache.

Now I have a 2.4 GHz Celeron D with CA AV and of course it runs
without bogging anything down.

"GHz Rules!"

"You Can Never Have Enough GHz!"