CA is a well-known antivirus software company with a long reputation; however, their antivirus software offers neither the low price nor outstanding support options necessary to compete with today's best antivirus software.
That said, CA Antivirus has made fairly significant improvements in manual virus scanning, email protection, and IM protection, and it even supports both POP and IMAP email clients, which is somewhat unique for antivirus software.
Overall, its feature and performance are adequate for most users.
IMPROVED FEATURES
* Better manual scanning
* Good email protection
* Decent IM protection
The areas where CA antivirus falls short are in their user interface, resource usage, customer support, and to some degree real-time antivirus protection.
The user interface was clunky; our testers found it hard to navigate and find what they needed quickly.
Resource usage was at times quite heavy and fluctuated radically; CA seemingly hasn't put as much effort into reducing their overall footprint as the compeition.
Given that strong competitors like Norton, Kaspersky, BitDefender, and VIPRE are focusing so heavily on having a lighter footprint with each release, it was easy to see that CA antivirus still has work to do here.
Customer phone support isn't free and is far too expensive, especially when so many competitors offer free phone support. Plus, their chat software can be invasive instead of helpful.
Finally, as for doing the job of protecting against viruses, CA Anti-Virus Plus Anti-Spyware 2010 was a mixed bag. Initially, it only caught about 60% of the viruses we expected it to. Later on though, after a couple of definitions updates, it managed much better scores, eventually removing the viruses and malware we expected it to. Source pcantivirusreviews.com
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