eTrust EZ Antivirus 2005 is an award-winning antivirus solution that provides complete protection, detection and elimination of thousands of computer viruses, worms and Trojan horse programs for home and home office PCs. The easy-to-use interface and frequent automatic updates make it effortless to stay protected, and the small installation file does not strain PC system resources.

eTrust EZ Antivirus 2005 is ICSA-certified to detect 100% of viruses in-the-wild. This software is supported by the CA Security Advisory Team, providing worldwide 24x7 research labs to ensure protection from the latest threats. eTrust EZ Antivirus leverages the same technology CA has developed for the worlds most demanding corporate users, including over 95% of the Fortune 500..

eTrust EZ Antivirus offers simple-to-use yet powerful features like: automatic daily virus signature file updates to easily and effectively address the main cause of virus attacks  out of date signature files; automatic email scanning and archive scanning; scheduled scanning to allow you to scan for viruses at times most convenient for you; real-time scanning to automatically detect and remove viruses from any file you access; heuristic scanning to find viruses even before they appear on the latest virus signature file updates; and interactive virus detection messages with links to the CA Virus Information Center, providing you with detailed information on viruses that have been detected on your PC.

eTrust EZ Antivirus 2005 has been designed to allow for quick download and installation, fast updates, and low usage of PC system resources, while providing seamless compatibility with other applications.


eTrust EZ Antivirus 2005 review:
1 stars (Worse Than a Virus) - I purchased CA's antivirus software because I had read some good reviews. After purchasing I downloaded the most current version. I installed it on one of three PCs in the house. All reasonably new and powerful Dells: 2 running McAfee and 1 running Norton. The first PC is XP Pro. The installation went smoothly, with only one "program must terminate" error that did not seem to affect the installation. I noted that the program was smaller in disk space and in memory footprint. I tested this for a week with only one occurrence of needing to reboot due to some obscure failure (red X over the icon in my system tray).



I decided it was good to use and purchased two more licenses to install on the two XP Home machines in the house. This did not go well. Now, I have two machines that are requiring me to completely reinstall Windows. After removing both McAfee and Norton from these two respective PCs, they booted up fine. Then I installed CA eTrust Antivirus version 7.0.6.7 and the problems started. The PCs both would boot to the Welcome screen and then freeze. About 20% of the time when booting in Safe Mode they would finally get all the way to the desktop (after 30 minutes of chunking) only to get a message "Windows must now restart because the remote procedure call (RPC) service terminated unexpectedly". Then a 50 second timer starts and Windows and the PC reboots. The taskbar is unresponsive while Windows is up and the CPU is pegged. For this 50 seconds there is no way to interrupt the automatic shutdown. Basically, the installation of this software made the PC behave as if it was infected by a very bad computer virus.



I spent 45 minutes chatting over the Internet with friendly Sameet. The final outcome of that painful communication was that Sameet types something like: "I must inform you that I am not authorized to work on this problem because it is your problem and I am not authorized."



So, now I am reinstalling Windows XP Home on two machines and returning CA eTrust EZ Antivirus for a full refund. Looks like I will be sticking with Norton from now on. I think CA is rushing this product to market without doing enough testing. Don't buy it unless you like reinstalling Windows.


1 stars (Unable to uninstall) - Once my year-long subscription expired, I have been unable to uninstall CA ETrust. It now pops up a nag window about every 20 minutes, and when you click exit, it pops up a browser window and takes you to CA's web page. I have tried uninstalling many different ways to no avail. This has been going on for months and makes my computer painful to use.



My attempts to reach support are futile. Their support page doesn't work in my browser (IE 6.0) and the phone line is pay (which I will probably end up paying).



This is much worse than a virus. At least with a virus I can go buy Norton and clean things up.
1 stars (Unable to uninstall) - Once my year-long subscription expired, I have been unable to uninstall CA ETrust. It now pops up a nag window about every 20 minutes, and when you click exit, it pops up a browser window and takes you to CA's web page. I have tried uninstalling many different ways to no avail. This has been going on for months and makes my computer painful to use.



My attempts to reach support are futile. Their support page doesn't work in my browser (IE 6.0) and the phone line is pay (which I will probably end up paying).



This is much worse than a virus. At least with a virus I can go buy Norton and clean things up.

eTrust EZ Antivirus 2005 is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around  26.99USD.