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    Achive damage

    in ESET Internet Security & ESET Smart Security Premium

    Posted

    I think you mean archive damage. But as this question has not many to do with ESS here the short answer:

    For zip files there is no way to repair it AFAIK. Rar files you can sometimes repair/restore if they contain special data which allows this. I don't know which software can do this, but WinRAR is one example.

    But if you asked this because you saw such messages in ESS then don't care about this, because a file which is damaged cannot do anything badly.

    EpfwLWF.sys + epfwwfpr.sys

    in ESET NOD32 Antivirus

    Posted

    Anyway, ...

    I won't leave this topic without an answer. As you maybe know ESS uses the Windows filtering platform. And also a detailed description of this is available online.

     

    EpfwLWF.sys (Epfw NDIS LightWeight Filter) and epfwwfp.sys (EPFW Filter Driver) are part of this.

    The "Epfw NDIS LightWeight Filter" you can disable in the network (adapter) settings - of course only for troubleshooting purposes.

    More information about the other driver you can get here: https://forum.eset.com/topic/2915-epfwwfprsys/

    Eset FW

    in ESET Internet Security & ESET Smart Security Premium

    Posted · Edited by rugk

    I disabled email & spam protection & ESS icon is the same blue.

    Really? Well... in my case ESS showed a warning after I temporarily disabled the email client protection.

     

    Internet browsing is little affected with ESS i.e internet browsing feels little slow with ESS compared to EAV, what you say?

    This may be the case (however I never noticed it). However I was only talking about the two modules "email client protection" and "spam protection". If they are not used I think they have no impact on the system performance, so in other words it may not speed up your computer if you disable them.

    Close Smart Security temporarily to defrag

    in ESET Internet Security & ESET Smart Security Premium

    Posted · Edited by rugk

    Yes this errors are understandable and you may prevent them by deactivating the self-defense (temporarily of course). Additionally you can close the ESET GUI like I showed in the first part of this video.

     

    Here are the settings for self-defense:

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    But instead of modifying this settings I also know a few defrag programs which have an option included to defrag the system in a very early phase of the boot process. This way they can get around of all this restrictions and running processes which block files.
    I don't know if your software has such an option (it's sometimes called boot-time defrag or similar), but if it has then this might be the most comfortable and best solution.

    Eset FW

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    Posted

    No email client and spam protection only provide the protection their name suggests. But AFAIK they don't affect the system performance if they are activated and not used, so you can disable them, but it wouldn't be a use.

    Additionally if you disable the email client protection ESS' icon will turn orange, so this might not look so nice. :)

    How does the ESET Anti-Theft finds the location of my PC?

    in ESET Internet Security & ESET Smart Security Premium

    Posted · Edited by rugk

    Well it's not a secret, it may be a bit complex, but it's easy to answer: Wi-Fi positioning system

     

    BTW I asked a similar question too: Small question: Does ESET Smart Security use GPS for Anti-Theft?

    As you can read there ESET Anti-Theft only uses WLAN to locate the device. GPS isn't actually used. (but I would appreciate it of course)

     

    [...] or it's just a simple trick that every website owner can do to find my location? 

    No a website can't do this - unless you allow it, but every browser should notify you and ask "Do you want to allow site XY to use your location?" (or similar). You can test it e.g. on Google Maps.

    But a software which is installed on the system may be able to do this. At least until Wi-Fi is turned on, but I assume also applications can turn this on in Windows, so this might not be a problem.

    Eset FW

    in ESET Internet Security & ESET Smart Security Premium

    Posted · Edited by rugk

    1. Right, for direct connection I would recommend it. But when you use your (wifi) router then it might not be "required" to set it to public network, but you can of course still use it if you don't need local services like file/printer sharing and remote desktop.

    Normally your public/private network settings are automatically saved, so you only have to answer the question one time. But you already selected an option which should suppress this questions.

    2. 3 times right. :D

     

    About the option I already wrote in 1) there. And yes, AFAIK you're right.

    Ehm disadvantages...

    Maybe that you can't choose between private/public network when you connect to a new network (such as a public wifi or similar).

     

    On using torrents this settings has no affect. AFAIK torrents should work with the firewall in automatic mode. If not then you can always create the necessary rules.

    Eset FW

    in ESET Internet Security & ESET Smart Security Premium

    Posted · Edited by rugk

    Okay...

    1. If you are directly connected to the internet (with no router and thereby no local network) set it to public network. As you can't use things like file sharing in your local network anyway (because there isn't a local network) this isn't problematic.
    2. You will only see an application modification popup for modified files for which you created a permanent firewall rule. As you may do this often when using the interactive firewall mode it usually only happens there. In the automatic mode there shouldn't be displayed such a popup (unless you created some rules manually of course).

    Lenovo caught installing adware on new computers

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by rugk

    Just FYI there was just published a nice summary from Arey Goretsky.

     

    Its been just under three weeks since February 19th, when Lenovo became entangled in a web of controversy over its preinstallation of Superfish’s Visual Search adware on some of its popular consumer laptops during last year’s holiday shopping season.

    Superfish: Lenovo goes on the bloatware offensive

    My system doesn't support sms/mms blocking?

    in ESET Products for Mobile Devices

    Posted · Edited by rugk

    And when I import that group to EMS but then delete the group from my phone/google account - will it work with EMS?

    Well...

    I tested it with a local phone group, so I added a group, blocked it and deleted the group afterwards. But then there happen something strangely - it seems to be buggy. It displayed nothing anymore in the rules list, so where the name of the group was before it was just nothing now. And if I tapped on the name "without a name" EMS required me to choose a (new/other) group.

    post-3952-0-78379000-1426016867_thumb.png

    Please note that I tested it with Android 4.4, but this shouldn't make a difference. But as you can see it doesn't seem to work this way.

    So you would either have to accept a group in your dialer/phone app or you must add all contacts one by one.

     

    Another strange but possible workaround would be to create a blocking rule for one contact and add all phone numbers you want to block there. However I don't know if this would be easier. Maybe it would be even more difficult...

    Cleaning Behavior in Nod 32

    in ESET NOD32 Antivirus

    Posted · Edited by rugk

    Nice test!

    So a small explanation of the two scenarios: If a threat is detected and ESS/NOD32 ask the user then the process which creates or executes (or is) the threat is blocked until a user chooses a decision. And as this is in the second case the explorer it's of course also blocked and this is the reason why you can't open any programs or open the context menu there.

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