{"id":235,"date":"2006-01-30T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/installing-ca-etrust-ezantivirus-on.htm"},"modified":"2007-05-15T09:48:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T08:48:46","slug":"installing-ca-etrust-ezantivirus-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/installing-ca-etrust-ezantivirus-on.htm","title":{"rendered":"Installing CA eTrust EZAntivirus on Windows Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--113863818187515775--><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/ezantivirus.gif?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CA eTrust EZAntivirus\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My usual anti-virus software (Symantec AntiVirus 8 Corporate Edition) does not seem to install on Windows Vista &#8211; which is not really a problem as Vista is still in beta and so the PC will be rebuilt every few months anyway, leaving me free to use a trial version of something else. I found that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-etrust.com\/SubscriptCenter\/MSTrialRegistration.aspx\">CA is offering Microsoft customers a 1-year trial of the eTrust EZAntivirus product, free of charge<\/a>, so I downloaded and installed that on Windows Vista (December CTP: build 5270). Installing this was not as easy as I expected &#8211; initial attempts to install failed part way through with the following message (even though I was logged in as Administrator):<\/p>\n<p><em>Setup Error<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Setup failed to copy necessary system files.  Please make sure you have administrator permissions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I eventually kicked the installation into life by running in compatibility mode for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (for reference, my EZAntivirus product version is 7.0.8.1 with engine 11.9.1 and virus signature 9633).<\/p>\n<p>Previously I&#8217;ve had problems getting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/antispyware\/\">Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware beta<\/a> to load on Vista but I&#8217;m pleased to see that the December CTP includes Windows Defender so I&#8217;m already covered.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve got all the requisite IT prophylatics in place, it should be safe to go online&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My usual anti-virus software (Symantec AntiVirus 8 Corporate Edition) does not seem to install on Windows Vista &#8211; which is not really a problem as Vista is still in beta and so the PC will be rebuilt every few months anyway, leaving me free to use a trial version of something else. I found that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/installing-ca-etrust-ezantivirus-on.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Installing CA eTrust EZAntivirus on Windows Vista<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[62,98],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-malware","tag-windows-vista"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Installing CA eTrust EZAntivirus on Windows Vista - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/installing-ca-etrust-ezantivirus-on.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Installing CA eTrust EZAntivirus on Windows Vista - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My usual anti-virus software (Symantec AntiVirus 8 Corporate Edition) does not seem to install on Windows Vista &#8211; which is not really a problem as Vista is still in beta and so the PC will be rebuilt every few months anyway, leaving me free to use a trial version of something else. 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