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eTrust Internet Security Suite provides comprehensive protection against viruses, hackers, identity thieves, spyware, spam and other online threats that can jeopardize your privacy, your data, and your PC’s performance. It combines easy-to-use, award-winning, business-strength technology with preconfigured settings and automatic updates that take the guesswork out of PC security. With eTrust Internet Security Suite, you can protect your privacy and your PC with a full complement of online security tools.

User Reviews about CA Etrust Internet Security Suite r2

Having used this product for over half a year, I feel I should warn fellow computer users of a recurrent problem (also alluded to by another reviewer). The Real-time Scanner for the antivirus product often turns itself off. After a looong wait on the phone, the support folks in India politely walked me through turning it back on. The procedure is to turn Real-Time Scanning off, reboot the computer, turn Real-time Scanning back on, and reboot again.

The support tech I had the first time assured me this should only have to be fixed once, and the product worked fine for a few months. Now the Real-time Scanner turns itself off every time the product checks for updates. So if I want to keep scanning for viruses, I have to regularly go through the multi-reboot cycle. A Real-Time Pain-in-the-&$$, if you ask me.

As with my problems with the Norton Suite a while back, I am mystified as to why none of the downloaded patches fix the manufacturer's own coding errors.

In other respects, the Computer Associates suite has performed similarly to the competent ZoneAlarm suite of which it is a derivative; the scanning quality is not the greatest, though, as it does miss items the free Lavasoft Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy non-real-time scanners regularly weed from my system. Of the products I have used, the Norton suite worked fine in earlier revisions, but the last version I had was a disaster. So I switched to ZoneAlarm, which I kept for the life of the first year's subscription. Though it functioned very well, I did not continue with ZoneAlarm due to rising costs. The Computer Associates suite has become a nagging problem, so it will be dumped as soon as I can find a competent, cost-effective replacement.


-- Antivirus Real-time Scanner may die