Minimalist
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15 hours ago, rotaru said:
Thank you all!
In my opinion a heuristic/ machine learning/hips/ Deep behavior monitor detection should be clearly identified as such, at the moment the detection is displayed.
Personally , in years using ESET , I never had anything else than signature based detections,
I never seen a HIPS detection in more than 5 years and 3 PC , even though HIPS is set in "smart mode"
I'm also using HIPS in smart mode and so far received notification only once. It was after a program update, but I can't remember which one it was. Unfortunately I also didn't take a screenshot.
Message was saying that HIPS detected some changes to updated application and it asked me to approve or deny them.
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You can enable/disable it in advanced setup as shown below:
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On 12/28/2022 at 6:02 PM, just said:
Can you help me please? @Minimalist
Hi, I just saw this question now.
You can enable/disable runtime packers scanning in real-time file system protection settings or in scan options settings. I don't know which option you are asking about.
Anyway defaults are OK so you don't need to change anything.
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20 minutes ago, just said:
Well, it's accessing then, but real-time file protection doesn't?
Real-time file protection is performed by accessing and scanning data. So we are talking about one thing not, two or three.
23 minutes ago, just said:I know this too, my system is UEFI, but I know that UEFI feature can be lost with a virus or an intervention on the motherboard. @Minimalist
If your are worried, download an update from your manufacturer's site and update it so you can be sure to have a clean one. If you don't know how to do it ask someone who knows how to do it.
Since we are going in circles and I doubt I'll be able to answer your questions, I will stop responding to this thread.
Have a nice day.
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1 hour ago, just said:
I have UEFI on my computer, but I'm not sure if it's using UEFI mode. @Minimalist
Instruction to check it out:
QuoteStep 1: Press Windows + R to bring up Run window.
Step 2: Input msinfo32 and click OK button to open System Information.
Step 3: Click System Summary from the left list and go to the right pane to check the BIOS Mode. If it shows Legacy, it means you are using BIOS boot mode. For UEFI mode, it will display UEFI directly.
Source: https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/uefi-vs-bios.html
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1 hour ago, just said:
But then again, real-time file protection cannot access the boot sectors, since you said you can only scan it.
It's exactly the opposite. If real-time file system protection could not access boot sector it wouldn't be able to scan it. Since it can access boot sector it can scan it. So "scanning" and having access to is "the same".
File system protection is protecting your system by scanning data. That's it's main purpose.
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1 minute ago, just said:
Real time file system protection
Real time file system protection has an option to scan boot sector /UEFI so IMO it's accessible to that module.
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4 minutes ago, just said:
Then Advanced Threat protection can't access boot sectors right? @Minimalist
I don't understand what you mean by "Advanced Threat Protection". Can you post a link to description of this feature or technology?
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1 hour ago, just said:
So isn't Advanced threat protection out of reach?
I'm sorry but I don't understand your question.
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I believe so. Tooltip for that setting shows this:
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ESET employs different modules which perform different tasks. You can perform on demand scan and scan UEFI if you like but there is also real-time protection as explained on website from my previous link:
QuoteUnified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Scanner is part of the Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) that protects UEFI firmware on your computer.
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20 hours ago, just said:
Can Antivirus's Advanced Threat Protection access the boot sector and detect threats there?
Yes it can.
Itman showed you where it can be enabled or disabled.
Some more info is also posted here:
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13 hours ago, itman said:
If the Eset GUI is password protected, you will be the only one able to open the GUI. As such, display of your e-mail address in the Eset Home section of the GUI by other PC users is a moot point.
Unfortunately not. Password protect will only protect settings from changes. Even when set, you can still open GUI and see your email address.
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1 hour ago, rotaru said:
ESET has minimum impact on PC performance, but computers these days are extremely fast.
Basically, with ESET a website will load in 0.05 sec while with another antivirus , 4 time slower, in 0.2 sec
The difference is not noticeable.
The difference in price it is : $150 for 3pc/3 year vs ZERO.
Yes I agree about website speed loading. The difference in speed when performing file related operations is much higher though.
At work I can compare MD and Panda when performing daily backup over network. It's around 5 GB in size, a lot of small files. With Panda installed it takes about 2 - 3 minutes, with MD enabled it takes 40 - 45 minutes. So the difference is huge in this situation.
I also agree that PCs are very fast so most people won't notice slowdown when using MD. Only after disabling it one can notice the difference in speed when performing file related operations.
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2 hours ago, rotaru said:
Hello itman,
From the links provided (and from AV comparatives in the last 5 years) it seems like Windows Defender performs better or at par , compared with all other paid solution.
So, why are people still pay good money for an illusion of "better" protection?????
I can speak only for myself. I buy it because ESET performs better than MD on my system. I don't think that here is much difference in protection level but system impact is much smaller with ESET on my system. Since I encounter malware approx. once every ten years, 95% vs. 99% detection ration doesn't matter to me.
I also like that I can configure my AV how I like without having to use 3rd party tool or Gpedit /registry.
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Hi.
In my opinion you don't have to worry about SSD wear unless you are performing actions that would perform full speed 24/7 writing to that disk.
You can google for SSD endurance test and you will see that most disks can handle hundreds of terabytes of data written, some even more than petabyte.
I've just checked wear level of my SSDs after two and a half years of usage, mostly using Eset product during this time. Here is a result:
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I tested with VPN enabled (system wide VPN not extension) and web protection works OK for me.
Maybe extension is encrypting network traffic which is not decrypted by Eset, so content is scanned only after it's downloaded?
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8 hours ago, Marcos said:
ESET NOD32 Antivirus does not contain Banking and payment protection so it should not be affected.
I don't think that Banking and payment protection is the source of the problem. I experience this problem with Nod32 Antivirus installed and also with Internet Security when I was using it.
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Right after startup notification was not shown on my system also. Few hours later after next update, notification was shown. Waiting for another one to happen to see how it goes.
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I reinstall Eset frequently and initial definition update can be slow. Sometimes it takes few seconds (that's rarely) to download update, other times it can take even few minutes.
I believe it's a problem of their CDN provider. Their network speeds are not stable. At least not here where I live.
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I have both enabled. Though today I got notification (2 notifications when I was at computer), which didn't happen for some time before today.
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I've had similar experience for a while, but today I got message again.
Website detected HTML/ScrInject.B
in Malware Finding and Cleaning
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I got this notification also. On Virustotal there is no detection.