Future changes to ESET NOD32 Antivirus, ESET Internet Security, ESET Smart Security Premium and ESET Ultimate Security

[hansen 0]

Hello Eset.

 

Description : Sandbox  (I know that this feature is requested earlier, so this is only meant as a supplement to a already existing wish)

 

 

Detail/why...: Hey Eset, create your own Sandbox, as a standalone tool, not as a integrated solution to Eset, but a separate solution, that you can download as a paying customer, only. It can e.g. be created so it will only work in combination with a eset product. Like many others I miss a sandbox solution. I know it is not the the solution of everything, regarding malware which have not yet been identified, but in my perspective, it is a much more friendlier solution, than the H.I.P.S function. Which are a much more advanced and harder tool to fully master than a Sandbox.

 

Regards, Janus

 

 

A Great, and very flexible idea Janus. Thumb up

[TGW 15]

Description: Exclusion list for Gamer Mode

Detail: Exclusion list for Gamer Mode where the user can exclude certain programs from the automatic gamer mode feature without having to disable it all together and fall back to that manual way, this can be very useful if you run certain application(s) but as an exception you still want to be notified about any events, and carry on with scheduled tasks, etc. for any reason.

Example: A user browse the web in Full Screen mode (F11) but still want ESS to display notifications about any events.

 

Mockups:

 

 

Edited September 6, 2013 by TGW

[adam 2]

Description: Advanced Antispam / Email Functions with Centralised communication.

Detail: The ability to report emails back to a centralised database. Classifying emails as SPAM and adding a new option for PHYSHING. Database updates could be sent out include known current IP addresses of physhing websites, and email addresses of spammers and provided enhanced scanning through combined efforts of reporting, in addition to the already onboard options. (With the ability for users to opt-in or opt-out of the centralised system).

[zero2000x 0]

Please don't turn the Eset iRobot into a Frankenstein by adding junk features. Parental Control and social media scanner are quite useless. I just want an antivirus that protects my computer and not babysit my children. I see people who want sandbox and a browser for banking, I hope these features won't be implemented in the future. The best way Eset should make changes to future versions is to put businesses at the first place, and not consumers.  All these features I've mention would never be used by businesses, so they are wasting computer resources.

[JAF1979 4]

Description: Application Blocking - Ability to BLOCK certain applications from running or even being installed.

 

Detail: It would be great if ESET could implement a way to block certain applications from running or even being installed. By using the ERA, an Administrator could create a policy that would BLACKLIST (or WHITELIST) certain applications from being installed, launching and/or running as a service. 

 

Symantec Endpoint Protection has this feature and it allows you to block an application from running either by it's application fingerprint or executable name. 

With the development of certain applications, such as Dropbox, Chrome, Spotify, etc., that have the ability of being installed under a Standard user's profile which circumvents the need to be an Administrator to install an application, it is becoming more and more difficult for IT administrators to block these type of "rogue" apps from being installed on a computer by standard users. Most of these apps use common ports for outbound and inbound communication so they are not easily blocked using firewall settings.

 

Hope to see this feature implemented SOON!!

[0strodamus 5]

I would like to suggest the following relatively minor improvements to NOD32:

 

01) Allow the HIPS rules window to remember the last size and position. It is tedious to have to resize this window every time.

02) Add a setting to make the alerts popups open the advanced options drop-down as default.

03) Better wildcard support for the HIPS module. For example, allow items such as "C:\Windows\*.log".

04) Allow wildcards for Source Applications in HIPS rules. As the final rule of 3 out of 4 policies is to allow the action (including the default policy), this would NOT be a dangerous modification. There are instances where this would be quite useful. Some examples:

    a.) on a system running the Surun application every application needs to be able to launch surun.exe

    b.) many applications may need to write to "C:\Windows\Rescache\rc000*\rescache.hit"

    c.) many applications may need to write to "C:\Windows\CSC\v2.0.6\namespace\localhost"

It would make rulesets much smaller to integrate all these actions into a single rule for Source Applications "C:\Program Files\*" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\*", instead of so many separate rules.

 

If you've made it this far into my post, thanks for taking the time to read. Any consideration of these changes by the ESET developers would be greatly appreciated.

Edited October 1, 2013 by 0strodamus

[Guest MrHacker]

I would really say Heads Off to ESET.

ESET Give 

 - Average Detection (I feel it as awesome.)

 - Awesome Prevention

 - Performance is the best in the whole market of AV's.

 - Awesome Phishing Protection

& Now its New Advanced System Scanner is the thing i think which will Make ESET one of the Best AV.

 

Most Imp thing ESET contain very very less Bugs which increases it Performance.

- I think ESET Contain very less Bugs because it does not release New Version every year & it does not change its GUI in every 6 months (Normally other AV's do change their GUI in every 6 months.)

 

Description - GUI should be Improved.

Detail - Sir GUI is very awesome, I like it very much But i think ESET is using this GUI from its ESET v3 as i think.

Edited April 16, 2014 by MrHacker

[Patch 16]

Description: Generic System rescue disk functionality

 

Detail:

The current implementation of the Rescue disk requires the user to download and install Microsoft Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (1.7GB), then build a rescue USB/CD/DVD. The boot image is specific to Computer, ESET licence and ESET software version, Windows version / patch level.

For the user to maintain this infection backup protection, this process needs to be repeated for every computer they have and redone every time ESET brings out a new version, Microsoft does a singnificant upgrade or their ESET licence is renewed.

 

That is a lot of ongoing work to have tool we all hope to not need.

 

It would be far better if:

1. The system rescue disk image ran on a wide range of computers, so users with mulitiple computers only need one rescue disk.
2. A bootable image was directly downloadable from ESET so users who omitted to create a rescue disk before they suspected infection could still boot from a safe image and scan their computer (current licence to download current image would be reasonable).

[TGW 15]

Description: Different color for the header of HIPS (Interactive Mode) dialog windows.

Detail: The warning for PUA/PUP is almost identical to that of the HIPS dialog window, making it somewhat tricky to notice the PUA/PUP detections especially when installing/reinstalling programs where the user usually receives many HIPS prompts (if it's set to interactive mode), and this can affect the more careful user. Changing the color of the HIPS prompts to a different color can make it much easier to distinguish between the two different dialogs.

Screenshots:
 

The very similar HIPS and PUA dialogs:

 

 

 

A quick mockup for the suggested change (HIPS dialog):

 

[TJP 143]

Description: ESS remember that I've entered my setting protection password for 'x' amount of time.
Detail:I'd like future versions of ESS to remember that I've entered the password used to access password protected settings etc for a designated lenth of time rather than having the user constantly enter their password every time they wish to access a setting, delete a report etc.

[SweX 871]

Description - GUI should be Improved.

Detail - Sir GUI is very awesome, I like it very much But i think ESET is using this GUI from its ESET v3 as i think.

Hello MrHacker, I just want to let you know that ESET have mentioned that a new GUI is in the works so it will change sooner or later.

[SweX 871]

Description: Different color for the header of HIPS (Interactive Mode) dialog windows.

Detail: The warning for PUA/PUP is almost identical to that of the HIPS dialog window, making it somewhat tricky to notice the PUA/PUP detections especially when installing/reinstalling programs where the user usually receives many HIPS prompts (if it's set to interactive mode), and this can affect the more careful user. Changing the color of the HIPS prompts to a different color can make it much easier to distinguish between the two different dialogs.

Screenshots:

 

The very similar HIPS and PUA dialogs:

 

PUA.png

 

HIPS_Current.png

 

A quick mockup for the suggested change (HIPS dialog):

 

HIPS_Mockup.png

Yeah when you put it like that, I agree.

 

I wouldn't mind if the PUP notification color would be changed to something that get's the users attention, but would also show that it's not a severe malware detection (so not Red anyway). Maybe light purple to make it different. 

 

Edit: What's the firewall notification color now again....Orange or Light Blue is it not? (I can't check myself at the moment)  Forget it... I think It's Green if I remember correctly 

 

I wouldn't mind if the PUP/PUA, HIPS, and Firewall notification windows, would be in 3 different colors.

Edited October 11, 2013 by SweX

[TGW 15]

Yeah when you put it like that, I agree.

 

I wouldn't mind if the PUP notification color would be changed to something that get's the users attention, but would also show that it's not a severe malware detection (so not Red anyway). Maybe light purple to make it different. 

 

Edit: What's the firewall notification color now again....Orange or Light Blue is it not? (I can't check myself at the moment)  Forget it... I think It's Green if I remember correctly 

 

I wouldn't mind if the PUP/PUA, HIPS, and Firewall notification windows, would be in 3 different colors.

 

 

I believe the current color codes are as the following:

 

HIPS - Orange

PUA/PUP/PSA*(?) - Orange

Threat - Red

FW Outbound - Green

FW Inbound - Red (unless the connection is from the Trusted Zone, then it's green as well)

New Network Detection - Blue

 

I think the orange color is fit for the PUA/PUP but for HIPS some new color might be needed, blue can be used because AFAIK it's only used by the firewall when a new network is detected and that's a completely different looking dialog, but again any other color can be used, blue was just an example.

[SweX 871]

 

Yeah when you put it like that, I agree.

 

I wouldn't mind if the PUP notification color would be changed to something that get's the users attention, but would also show that it's not a severe malware detection (so not Red anyway). Maybe light purple to make it different. 

 

Edit: What's the firewall notification color now again....Orange or Light Blue is it not? (I can't check myself at the moment)  Forget it... I think It's Green if I remember correctly 

 

I wouldn't mind if the PUP/PUA, HIPS, and Firewall notification windows, would be in 3 different colors.

 

 

I believe the current color codes are as the following:

 

HIPS - Orange

PUA/PUP/PSA*(?) - Orange

Threat - Red

FW Outbound - Green

FW Inbound - Red (unless the connection is from the Trusted Zone, then it's green as well)

New Network Detection - Blue

 

I think the orange color is fit for the PUA/PUP but for HIPS some new color might be needed, blue can be used because AFAIK it's only used by the firewall when a new network is detected and that's a completely different looking dialog, but again any other color can be used, blue was just an example.

 

Yeah I believe you're right on the current colors that are used. :thumbup: 

[Guest MrHacker]

 

Description - GUI should be Improved.

Detail - Sir GUI is very awesome, I like it very much But i think ESET is using this GUI from its ESET v3 as i think.

Hello MrHacker, I just want to let you know that ESET have mentioned that a new GUI is in the works so it will change sooner or later.

 

Thats a very good news that ESET is working on new GUI. Really ESET is the best AV but still it is not that much popular as other AV's are. In India, I think there would 4-5% of population may every listen the name of ESET. 

Edited October 11, 2013 by MrHacker

[alan1476 0]

I just updated my 3 pcs to a new 2 year 3 computer license, I really hope the new GUI will be more intuitive.

[LoneGeek810 7]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned but whenever I do a right click scan I would like to see options in that small scan window to remove, delete, exclude etc it's kind of annoying not having those options atleast to me.

[Marcos 5,267]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned but whenever I do a right click scan I would like to see options in that small scan window to remove, delete, exclude etc it's kind of annoying not having those options atleast to me.

 

From the right-click context menu, you can run a scan with or without cleaning. To clean threats, simply select the option "Clean with ESET NOD32 Antivirus" (or "Clean files" in v7).

[LoneGeek810 7]

Does "clean" mean delete or quarantine?

[SweX 871]

"clean" means that it will try to clean the infection afaik.

[Aryeh Goretsky 386]

Hello,

 

Just a quick administrative reminder.  This message thread is for discussing future changes to ESET Smart Security.

 

Reports of issues with the currently-available versions of the software, including public betas, should go in their respective message threads. 

 

Likewise, discussions of release scheduling and the like should go in their respective message threads as well.

 

Thank you for your understanding.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

[ali 1]

[Thread moved from Hello and merged into the Future changes to ESET NOD32 Antivirus by moderator. AG]

Hello

We had asked for a strong start a behavior analyst white list And Sandbox like the rest of protections and also that the Arab program supports have you said to us that you will be surprised all the world's seventh edition But like the sixth version like nothing new V depends on the database and Web protection and lacks the layers of protection, Sandbox and white list and we hope you improve it in the next update or reply to us even know that it will become stronger or move on to a program like This is not what we want because of our deep love for the program Thank you

[Arakasi 549]

 

Hi Ali

 

Welcome to the forums !

 

In my travels on the internet, if i think it might be malicious, i stay away from it. I would have no need for a sandbox. I am not sure if it will be added or not.

ESET's decision.

[SweX 871]

 

Hi Ali

 

I would have no need for a sandbox.

 

Same here! 

 

@ali

 

If you want a sanbox like program, then you should take a look at Sandboxie (hxxp://www.sandboxie.com/) wich is very popular among those who want or already use a sandbox type program.

 

 

@Admin. Once again my message disappeard after I clicked on the post button!!!

Edited October 18, 2013 by SweX

[Arakasi 549]

Nice suggestion for sandbox from my friend Swex !