zamar27
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3 hours ago, cyberhash said:
In addition to the above, running any sort of de fragmentation on a SSD will reduce its lifespan.
Not sure if you understood me, but PerfectDisk prevents data fragments to be written to disk. It defragments data in RAM before its written to disk. Also, I was not talking about "disk activity" in general, but about Eset only write activity in particular.
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I've latest regularly updated ESS 10 installed and running on a Win10 64-bit PC. Looking at Process Explorer, it writes to system SSD about 3-4GB/day, but reads back only 1-1.5GB/day. An obvious question is, what exactly ESS writes to disk? Why it reads less than writes? Can such writes be done into RAM instead of SSD to prevent the SSD wear for no valid reason?
To add some info, I've PerfectDisk defrag running in "prevent fragmentation" mode. Also ongoing LAN traffic from security cams, which is not saved to disk by CAM software, but processed in RAM to detect motion. Also web browsers - usually around 500MB/day sessions saved, and internet video streaming via browsers. I wonder, may be Eset Real Time Protection catches the video streaming, which portions are temp saved to browser cache on disk, and then later deleted and replaced by the next video fragments? But why Eset needs to write so much data to SSD on ongoing basis, when no threats are usually identified by disk scans or RTP?
My goal is to completely stop Eset writing to SSD unless a threat is found and needs to be saved locally. How to do that? How to find out exactly, what data Eset keeps writing to disk? If I can't do it on my end, I ask the Eset devs to move all web fragment analysis to RAM instead of constantly writing to be analyzed data to disk, and then replacing it on disk with the next data. I didn't subscribe to Eset to kill my SSD, this is the wrong way to dynamically analyze received from network data.
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Marcos,
Pls ask to add to ESS 9 proper certificate formats Opera 12 can import. Opera 12 browser is still supported by te company and very popular with users, recently it was updated from Opera 12.17 to 12.18 version with security SSL updates. Please also contact also Opera software, asking them to add new Eset certificate formats to supported by Opera types.
Here are SSL certificate formats, Opera 12.18 supports:
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After latest Eset 9 update, Pause Firewall option now stably shown on LMC on ESS icon in Tray.
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Hi Marcos,
I did that twice, but nothing changed both times. Besides, Opera eventually crashes when there are too many such Security Issue popups, or they stay for too long without being closed. It never happen with Eset 8.
How I can manually copy that certificate - from what source folder to what destination? I tried Export - Import, but Eset says: "The associated private key cannot be found". And Opera can't import the exported cert, since it doesn't have the private key for it. Besides, Opera 12 doesn't offer to import any cert format exported by Eset 9.
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After installing ESS 9.0.375.0 in Win 10 64-bit I started having problems with SSL certificates in one of web browsers I use - Opera 12.17. No other programs are affected, but there are multiple various Eset SSL Certificate error popups on almost every webpage open in Opera, and on many html emails accessed with Opera email client. Pls explain how to stop it, or update ESS ASAP, since many users complain about SSL issues here with various programs. Opera 12 browser conveniently provides web browser and email client under one app, and there is no substitution for Opera fans.
I don't want to exclude Opera from Eset protection, and there is absolutely no way to exclude individual certificates since they are numerous, and will keep popping up on every new webpage of various sites I didn't open before in Opera. What exactly wrong with Eset SSL support? Why Eset support staff never talks about fixing this issue specifically on Eset end, but instead suggests to exclude more and more certificates and entire applications from Eset protection? Why customers need to keep an antivirus, if its protection is random, and many apps must be excluded from its protection anyway to work normally?
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I recently updated to ESS 9.0.375.0 on Win 10 64bit unbranded desktop, and noticed one unpleasant bug:
Pause Firewall option is no longer visible among ESS icon RMC Menu options in System Tray. The only relevant option shown is Pause Protection. However, once I pause protection, Pause Firewall and Block All Network Traffic options become visible. I don't observe this bug on my Win 10 64-bit laptop, it shows all above options in System Tray for the same version ESS icon.
Can someone suggest, if it can be fixed on the user end?
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Is it possible in the next ESS version to add "Remove Threat" or "Select Action" button to a last scan log of each scan type, even if a user did not select any action immediately after the scan was completed and instead rebooted the PC? In this scenario, if ESS removed a threat upon reboot, the Action button would no longer be visible against this threat in the log. If the treat file was later manually moved by a user to another folder, upon selecting an Action the user would get an Error "no file found". Also, a user should be able to select multiple threats from the log to choose a common action.
Now there's a problem with manual threat removal. I scanned my PC yesterday, and got a long list of "potentially unwanted application - action selection postponed until scan completion" records in the Eset Smart Scan Log done with default settings (i.e. Default Cleaning Level - no auto removal of unwanted apps). BUT... there was no way upon scan completion to choose an unwanted app from the log and select an Action!!!
In addition, probably due to ESS yesterday's module update, my PC went to sleep and failed to wake up properly, so I needed to reboot. Upon reboot I could access the last ESS log, BUT... there're again NO ways to select any action (like: Remove) in that Log window or any other window. Why then I did the 2-hour scan, if no ways to do any action after that?
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Well, if Botnet protection and Java exploit blocker is nothing new compared to new gui that wasn't re-made ... Each to his own. Regarding rootkits, ESET has employed Anti-stealth for ages already. Regarding malware, ESET has been continually improving protection on a daily basis by releasing engine and module updates, including advanced heuristics which has undergone substantial changes in the last 2 years.
Hi Marcos,
When Eset updates engine and modules for V7, do you also update V8beta modules in synch? If not, what V7 engine and modules the V8 is based on? Which release - V7 or V8 - currently provides better protection?
What is V8 expected release date?
If a user updates V7 to V8Beta, what will happen with current license? Will V8 continue to work until current V7 license expires, or V8beta is free until V8 is fully released?
Pls clarify the above questions, they are essential to understand for everyone considering the update.
What data Eset writes to SSD, and how to minimize it?
in ESET Internet Security & ESET Smart Security Premium
Posted · Edited by zamar27
Does that mean, Eset keeps saving to disk local webcam stream portions and constantly analyses them before they reach motion detection software? If that's the case, how I can add these streams to exemptions list for Realtime Protection?
Also, why Eset reads from disk only 30% of what it writes as per Process Monitor stats? Daily virus DB updates are small and don't count into this. It appears, stream writes to disk are mostly done "just in case", while Eset mostly analyzes incoming stream in RAM, so it doesn't need to read back data just written to disk? In this case its either a bug, or you should give a user some control to limit amount of data Eset uselessly writes to disk. With proliferation of SSD as system drive, and HDD production gradually stopped, this method to analyze the stream is becoming quickly obsolete.