Here's a sweet deal - free CA anti-virus and firewall

Posted Jun 17th 2004 3:51PM by Marc Orchant

Microsoft and Computer Associates have teamed up to offer Microsoft customers a free one-year subscription to the CA EZ-Armor Security Suite which includes CA's anti-virus and firewall products. The anti-virus application has gotten consistently high marks in competitive reviews recently and is particularly adept at detecting "in the wild" virii for which a signature has not yet been developed.

The firewall is basically the ZoneAlarm firewall. You can opt to try the enhanced firewall product for 15 days if you'd like. At the end of the trial period, you can either purchase a license or revert to the basic firewall product (no popup bloking, cookie controls, etc.). You get the same offer when installing the free ZoneAlarm firewall.

If you don't have anti-virus software or a firewall running on your PC, this is a no-brainer. If you've been relying on Windows' built-in Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) or even the new WIndows Firewall in the forthcoming Service Pack 2 release, this is a step up in protection.

This offer is "exclusive" to Microsoft customers and expires 02/01/2005.

Reader Comments

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1. Im actually using EZ armor on this PC right now and its actually not bad at all

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Adam Field

2. It's a nice suite. The firewall is quite good (ought to be considering it's Zone Alarm Pro) but the big surprise is the AV software. It uses vastly fewer resources than Norton 2004 (which came preinstalled on my new Tablet) or Sophos (which we run network-wide at my company). I can actually use the computer during a full scan without mouse jitters and mutttering under my breath. It found two bugs Norton had missed (minor and non-destructive) and they seem to be updating on a near daily basis.

Kudos to Microsoft for making this offer available.

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Orchant

3. Im actually using EZ armor on this PC right now and its actually not bad at all

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Adam Field

4. It's a nice suite. The firewall is quite good (ought to be considering it's Zone Alarm Pro) but the big surprise is the AV software. It uses vastly fewer resources than Norton 2004 (which came preinstalled on my new Tablet) or Sophos (which we run network-wide at my company). I can actually use the computer during a full scan without mouse jitters and mutttering under my breath. It found two bugs Norton had missed (minor and non-destructive) and they seem to be updating on a near daily basis.

Kudos to Microsoft for making this offer available.

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Orchant

5. Im actually using EZ armor on this PC right now and its actually not bad at all

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Adam Field

6. It's a nice suite. The firewall is quite good (ought to be considering it's Zone Alarm Pro) but the big surprise is the AV software. It uses vastly fewer resources than Norton 2004 (which came preinstalled on my new Tablet) or Sophos (which we run network-wide at my company). I can actually use the computer during a full scan without mouse jitters and mutttering under my breath. It found two bugs Norton had missed (minor and non-destructive) and they seem to be updating on a near daily basis.

Kudos to Microsoft for making this offer available.

Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Orchant

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