Eset Smart Security

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  1. Posts : 408
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
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    Eset Smart Security


    Well, after trying many different security bundles and anti virus packages - tried MSE, Comodo (firewall & anti virus), Kaspersky (firewall & anti virus), and ESET (firewall & anti virus), I finally decided on purchasing ESET Smart Security for my system and the wife's system. Bought a 2 year, 2 user license.

    For those wondering with Windows 7, my experiences are as follows:

    MSE - Good anti virus and no lag on the system at all, even during a scan, but I didn't like the lack of options and logging and was really looking for a firewall as well.

    Comodo - Really liked the firewall. It seemed rock solid with all the tests I threw at it, but the anti virus...can't say the same. In fact, it missed several things in testing as well as allowed certain files through that other packages found. The anti virus was a non-starter for me. Not ready for primetime yet.

    Kaspersky - I really wanted to like this product. The interface is great, but overall, not pleased with the performance. I was trying the Beta 8 release for Windows 7. Everytime I tried a full scan, it would crash. Not to mention that during the full scan, the system was very, very slow. This is a quad core system with 8 GB of RAM. Overall just didn't care for it and of course not happy with the crashing. I realize it was a beta, but just not good enough for me.

    ESET - Seems rock solid so far. The firewall has passed all the same tests that Comodo did and the anti virus engine picked up what Comodo anti virus didn't. It also is very light on system resources, even during a full scan. No lag on the system at all.

    I would highly suggest anyone looking for a new security package, you can't lose with ESET. For those that don't want to spend the money or can't afford it, perhaps a combination of Comodo Firewall and MSE would be your best choice...IMO anyway.
    Last edited by TheIgster; 19 Jul 2009 at 00:02.
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  2. Posts : 4
    Windows 7
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    I have been using ESET products for years now and honestly it can't be beat.
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  3. Posts : 685
    Windows 7 32bit RTM
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    fck yea !
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  4. Posts : 8,476
    Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)
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    Eset FTW.
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  5. Posts : 408
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
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    Some more kudos for ESET as well as questioning of some of the top rankings by places like PC Magazine of Norton products and others (which I truly believe has everything to do with advertising dollars and not the quality of the software):

    Norton security suite's top rating questioned

    "In my book, Symantec hasn't put out a decent product since they bought out Peter Norton. I don't care about the claims, in my opinion Norton doesn't do a good job of protecting people. In the last wave of the UPS/CNN/Virtumonde infection, many people with Norton, McAfee, AVG, and Trend got hammered.

    "The only decent antivirus on the market today is NOD32 by ESET [more info]. It stops virtually everything."
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  6. Posts : 587
    Windows 7 x64
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    TheIgster said:
    Some more kudos for ESET as well as questioning of some of the top rankings by places like PC Magazine of Norton products and others (which I truly believe has everything to do with advertising dollars and not the quality of the software):

    Norton security suite's top rating questioned
    .
    Too bad you didn't test drive the NIS 2010 beta for Windows 7. NIS 2009 has worked really well for me on XP and Vista (no system drag, fast updates, unobtrusive scans). I have seen the problem with blocking mapped network drives and that's a real showstopper. If you need to map drives then definitely choose something else, but that's the only serious problem I've seen in the field. I have not seen seriously compromised PCs running NIS2009. Even so, I do not trust NIS exclusively. I also use Zemana AntiLogger or Mamutu, and MBAM and SuperAntiSpyware for on-demand scanning.
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  7. Posts : 408
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Thread Starter
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    ESET is not without it's flaws and quite frankly it may have something to do with Windows 7 and ESET never claiming Smart Security works on Windows 7, but the other day, the shared folder that was working just fine previously, was no longer accessible on the other machine on my network.

    After some more tweaking and disabling the firewall temporarily, I managed to get it back. That is the one thing that is annoying me about ESET. I don't understand how a shared folder is allowed and then not allowed. I just want to share a single folder and have it accessible by the other machine.
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  8. DJG
    Posts : 1,008
    Windows 7 RTM x64
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    Eset AV is great, their FW is just getting there. I much prefer the flexibilty of Agnitum's FW products. For some years I've been using NOD-32 and Agnitum Firewall Pro. One nice thing about Eset & Agnitum is they have native 64-bit support. I tried the early Eset suite beta, and was lukewarm on the FW Now I'm trying Agnitum's Security Suite which is out with "beta support for Win 7" , with the firewall I like but an unknown AV, which OTOH picked something out - arrggh !
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  9. Posts : 358
    windows 7 HP 64bit
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    Ive had no end of network problems under W7 with Eset and now i use MSE for my W7 boxes.
    We run Eset v4 at work and its been fantastic with XP but on each PC ive put W7 on ive had sharing problems. Its been down to the Firewall malfunctioning and if i disable it things have got better but for now i just use the W7 firewall and MSE.
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  10. Posts : 20
    Windows 7
       #10

    How mutch does ESET cost? I see it at newegg for $30 OEM, but for like $80+ on their website =/

    Which one is it
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