Computer Associates Antivirus

[robd]

So I am in the process of rebuilding my system and call up a retailer with an inquiry on a product, the sales associate then proceeds to try and hawk an AV by Computer Associates. Never heard of it, anyone have any experience with this companies products? Seems like they have a history and a quick search of the net doesn't really produce anything. Looks as though they doctored up their entry on Wikipedia. Probably a company to stay away from or not even bother worrying about but I am just curious now that it has been brought up.

Edited June 5, 2008 by robd

[joe43wv]

I've tried CA's antivirus at work and lets just say it's better than nothin at all I guess. If they throw it into the deal for free, I take it and go on. If you have to purchase it then I'd forget, there are much better ones on the market. I personally use AVG 8.0 and Anti-vir, both are free to home users, work great, and doesn't conflict with each other.

[anonymous_user]

Theres better AV, both free and paid.

[robd]

Thanks for the replies.

Nuff said then. BTW, the sales associates from Tiger Direct and Comp USA are the ones pushing CA.

Personally, I have NOD32 on my PC and also recommend Kaspersky. For a friend whose system I recovered, avast! is what I installed. AVG's integration into the web browser annoys me.

Edited June 6, 2008 by robd

[eyeball]

God **** CA absolutely sucks donkey balls. Use Sophos it can be centrally managed with the greatest of ease and emails you when threats are found.

[Faenshaer]

My first real experience with E-Trust, the CA AV, was from 2 years ago when I started at my company. CA released a definition update that deleted the lsas off of all of our servers. Whole day down the drain plus most of a weekend fixing the issue. Did I mention it was Labor Day weekend? Anyhow they never admitted doing wrong but they gave us a bunch of "instore" credit to spend on their other products. Now we're on Sophos which supposedly has UNIX support but by support they mean a guy will answer the phone and talk to you. Not a big fan occasionally Sophos will eat 90+% of the CPU time and the rest of the time its blocking legit programs from functioning because they changed their categories for the umpteenth time. Anyhow I'll stop ranting now, I personally use Kaspersky, and AVG. Starting to look at NOD32 now though.