Dimitris G

Hello,

The holiday season is upon us, and 2024 is almost here.  Before we step away from our desks to spend time with our friends and families, I wanted to wish every one of you a joyous holiday season and forthcoming new year.

I think it is fair to say that in 2023, the world has faced some unparalleled computer security threats, and ESET has worked diligently to protect you from them.  Whether you have used our software for decades, or are new to ESET, thank you for trusting us to protect you throughout 2023 and we look forward to providing you with the very best security into 2024 and beyond.

Best wishes for the season,

Aryeh Goretsky

Survey 2022?

I see AV tests as great for marketing purposes but for little else. Many of the highest scoring AV vendors have dedicated test departments to ensure they get great test scores. I'm yet to read a sponsored AV report in which the sponsor fared badly.
I've been around long enough to when Wilder's Security Forum was the go-to site; developers and researchers would post in threads about test results, security news, AV trends etc.
Eset Nod32 was the first test darling, then Kaspersky, then Avira, then Bit Defender and so on.
People would swap their AV based on test results which I never understood. Has a product failed you in the real world? If not, why change? Has the AV product caused issues with your PC? If not, why change?
It's like changing cars because one car is faster to 100 km/h (or 60 MPH) or quarter mile in a group test. What about all the other aspects?
I use Eset because its never failed me, never perceptively slowed my PC down, never deleted key files due to a virus definition update error and never blue-screened my PC.
I'll take zero false positives, low system impact, little to no feature bloat (an area some AV suites go overboard with 'extra' features) and zero real world issues vs a high test score with FP's, system drag and whatever else it takes to be #1.

I'd like to add that that while I enjoy Eset and enjoy being part of the insider testing group, and have no plans myself in leaving, I've seen that some features missing are being offered by the competition and other users may decide to jump ship.
For example a lot are offering more features to help with ransomware e.g. protected folders, rollback etc. While these can go wrong e.g. ransomware may break into the protected folders, surely it is better to have it as extra protection.
Same goes with things like the ability to block things with no or low results. If disabled by default I can't see it causing too many issues if users are given a warning.

Unfortunately, if detection of Potentially unwanted applications is disabled, the user will end up with all their files encrypted, as happened here in the attached screenshots.

So I demand eset to develop an advanced behavior detection system, and I hope they look into it seriously, to give the user a product that does not consume a lot of device resources is really good, but if you can't keep up with the technology of your competitors, sooner or later you will fall.
Therefore, eset's acquisition of the Advanced Behavioral Detection System with Ransomware Remediation and rolls back the changes made by malicious applications is no longer a luxury requirement, but rather an urgent necessity.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus, ESET Internet Security and ESET Smart Security Premium version 14.0.22 have been released and are available to download.
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First I hope this post is in the proper place, and proper in content I just feel the need to say some words of praise.

I would like to express my thanks to ESET and to the forum here and review my first 6 months with ESET internet security.

I cannot be happier with the performance of the software; I would like to detail what I like best.

EIS is very low impact on system resources, significantly improving boot times and general performance on our windows 10 PC’s in our home.

The software is far easier than any other security software I have used to “setup”. For me setting the “enable detection of potentially unsafe applications” to on and setting my home network and it’s all done. In my previous vendor there were so many settings I had a list to use if re-install was necessary. The advanced setup available is also a huge advantage and the great forum here is the best place to get advice if you need help (I have answered most all of my own questions by searching and reading).

We practice safe computing in our home but have saw the software “protect” us by not allowing web sites to load on a few occasions in web searches.  I love the “lack” of popups and background behavior, only coming up when something needs my attention.    

The banking and payment is a great asset, I use this feature from its shortcut (not relying on site detection) when doing any online payment activity. I have not had any problems at all accessing sites, I even use PayPal on occasion and navigation through payment is flawless. I use Firefox as my browser of choice and love that I can create customization's in the Banking and Payment browser profile to enhance my personal security preferences while in B&P while not effecting my normal profile.

In migrating feature updates on Windows 10 the software was flawless this fall picking right up where it was. Also when an ESET major update is ready the updates have gone flawless as well. This is a great asset to “ease of use”.

Test results prevented me from coming to ESET sooner, this forum and the detail of explanation when these questions have come up (by other forum users) helped me understand what “test results” really mean. The reputation and commitment by ESET is evident in the software’s actual use.

Please accept my sincere thanks for having this great product available.  Anyone needing a great preforming AV suite should give ESET a try.

Also my wishes for a Happy New year and a great 2019 to all at ESET and the forum – ebill

I am very satisfied with ESET today. But I think they could add a sandbox so the user could execute suspicious files without the possibility of infecting the computer. Another thing is please do not do anything that would compromise the system's disengagement as other famous brands did. I really like ESET because of its good detection and low impact on the system.

Galaxy that is what backups and the built in Previous Version feature is for.
There is another antivirus product that claims they can do this, but their own engineers on their own website admit it doesn't work lol.

Description:  Merge the More tools menu into the Tools menu
Detail:  The current Tools menu only includes three less commonly used modules and leaves a huge blank space.

However, the most commonly used modules (e.g. Log files) are included in the More tools menu, which needs one more click to enter. 

Merge the More tools menu into the Tools menu can make full use of the space and reduce unnecessary operations.

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