Computer Associates - EZ Armour Ver 3

From: Foxy (Foxy_at_anadoo.com)
Date: 03/30/05 

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:56:03 +0000 (UTC)

Hello List

OS=Win98se fully patched x15

This might not be the correct list to post to but any help would be
appreciated

I have a problem with CA's EZ Armour Version 3 package of AV + Firewall,
the firewall appears to be some form of Zonealarm's product. The package
purports to offer an integrated approach to virus
detection/elimination/Firewall with the automatic quarantine of specific
file types that may be sent through the firewall as attachments to
emails (by altering the file type from say *.exe to *.Z07). This
function is configured through the firewall control panel & offers a
template of the usual file type offenders & the means to add additional
file types as you see fit.

Here's the crunch :-

If you run the firewall on its own (without e-mail protection on {in &
out}) it works as well as any other software firewall & stops the net
nasties, if you engage the e-mail protection, it will not quarantine and
allows whatever file type to pass, it appears to suffer a considerable
performance drop while keeping the net nasties at bay.

If you disable the real time protection in the AV part of the product &
engage the file type quarantine in the firewall it work's, registers the
file's quarantine in the FW control panel and changes the file extn to
*.Z?? as expected.

This may be an example of Firewall vendors jumping on the AV bandwagon &
visa versa and with this marriage, all is not well.

The AV works well on the fly and identifys correctly infected mail
attachments, I have no quibble with this.

For comparison I loaded the same product on another mchn with XP pro sp2
and it works out of the box, no probs.

We cant upgrade at the moment the OS of these Mchns to XP for
operational reasons.

  Has anyone else had this problem, if so, how did you deal with it.

thanks
Foxy

Relevant Pages

  • Re: UGH! Help....please.
    ... Are you running the Ad-aware and SpyBot in safe mode, with system restore ... open the quarantine list and delete them. ... There is also a free firewall called ZoneAlarm ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: AVG or AVAST - which is better?
    ... That I knew:) Personally I think running even one software firewall ... As for AVG vs. Avast! ... I have been running Avast for awhile now - I don't want to quarantine ...
    (uk.comp.homebuilt)