ESET NOD32 / Internet Security Discussion

I have been using ESET for years, no viruses since. So please stop trolling.

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What works for one may not be liked by others. That's the concept and the reason there are tons of AVs and softwares in the market.
I used NOD32 v4 yesteryears ago and I personally liked Vipre AV in terms of quickness and AV scan speed. Now, I switched to WD/MSE and never looked back. I still use LiveCDs as second opinion scanner from ESET, Dr. WEB, kaspersky, ZAM Premium, MBAM free.
Always try the samples in a VM. Never run in a host machine. If you want to test AV effectiveness then try this link https://malwaretips.com/forums/malware-vault-samples.104/

 

of course i do not have any now, used it about 2 years ago in few organizations, different users with different clue about pc. But in most cases same result, shining with "ok" while there rootkits and viruses all around.
Now i use kav/kis and nortons mainly, yes they are slow and slowing your pc but they do their work.
kav in my practice was only antivirus who stoped all "encrypt" viruses/scripts, when user was smart enough to launch them. Important moment i dont say it will stop all, and i knew it will not, just the ones i met was captured.

About guys who keep telling funny tales "i had it for 10y and never got any virus",
yes on my home pc i don't have any AV too, i just know what i should launch and what not.
I scan it time to time with mbam/adwcleaner and its always clean. But when you give this pc with this weak antivirus tousers with zero clue about pc, then you really know how its bad.

 

Honestly I only keep my AV for peace of mind, but it's never found an infection or blocked anything malicious. Between knowing how and where to browse, firefox's built in database of malicious sites, and adguard's blocking nasty crap, I really don't need AV.

 

I have several people whom I have had to wipe their systems due to virus, I have placed eset on them and yet to have one comeback with viruses on them. The newer versions are working lovely with none tech people in mind. Kav/kis in my experience is super over zelus making it unfriendly to non techy people. Norton on the other hand used to be the butt of all jokes with mc caflee.

Each person(s) opinion is different however I now only use the legit version of eset as its to me on of the best overall for less tech minded people.

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Nothing even comes close to the technology that is in ESET's products. 0 false positives, HIPS (Hosts Intrusions Prevention System), Cloud Powered scanning, built in HTTP Scanner so you don't even need a firewall, now has a UEFI Scanner, Ransomware Shield, Exploit Blocker, it's also the only Antivirus which blocks PUPs (Potentially Unwanted Programs)

For the full features list: https://www.eset.com/us/home/antivirus/#whats-inside

We talk stating facts, technologies, personal experience. I am a senior member at the Wilders Security forum which is the best Security Based forums and everyone there know how well ESET products are. No fanboyism there or anything like that. Pure results from thousands of users.

That guy is just trolling without posting SHA-1 hash tags of the files that he claims ESET has missed or actually post those files let me say them get missed on my system. If he does show us a proof, then I will publicly apologize to him and take up the findings with the ESET staff on the official ESET forum. Until then, take everything he says with a grain of salt.

@bizid Making false accusations and fabricating lies is easy, show us proofs or go troll elsewhere.

 

I can't see the big difference in performance crippling with or without AV. All OEM trashware / bloatware / scamware people prefer to have running in background will make a much bigger performance cap.




Fake 44x (44,43,43, 42) without AV.


This with Anti virus (Win Def) + web pages running in the background. Still with the tested fake max 44X overclock Dellienware and Azor bragg so much about (44,43,43, 42).


People should rather buy proper hardware before they start complain on how hard most AV (those without bloat) will hit the performance. Stop buying Trash. How diff AV can protect your data is another matter. The best AV is still yourself.

 

Well so much for EFI being most secure thing.
Are you really using basic AV or IS version of ESET? Do they provide HIPS, Two way FW in the basic version?
Aren't PUPs blocked by default on most free/paid AVs? WD blocks them by default.
Isn't ESET called NOD32 or are there 2 products from NOD32 and ESET. I'm familiar with NOD32.

 

1) I use NOD32 Antivirus, not the Internet Security which has a firewall. The HTTP Scanner in NOD32 is enough for my needs to block bad sites/malicious downloads, etc.

2) No other AV other than ESET's and Emsisoft's Anti-Malware block PUPs. Kaspersky has an option to block PUP but its hidden deep in its settings.

3) Windows Defender doesn't block PUPs by default, you need the following reg tweak to enable PUP detection in Windows Defender:

• Enable PUP (Potentially Unwanted Programs) Detection in Windows Defender

4) ESET has many products, NOD32 which is the AV only, ESET Internet Security which has a firewall, parental controls, banking protection, ESET Multi Protection which is a single license that covers more devices at once like MacOS and Linux and Mobile devices. etc. For more info, go to ESET's site and see their products

Bonus for you: What is a PUP? (interesting article)

 

I have heard very good reviews from Emsisoft and ESET from Umbra at malwaretips.
I enabled and disabled PUPs in WD on W10 Home, it seems WD is confused now because it blocks/clean known PUPs like Opencandy and other junk in installer.
Well, MBAM 3.x is on steroids by blocking most 3rd party cleaning utility like Iobit or stock CCleaner installer as PUPs and removed them w/o user permission.
I find ESET UI to a clean and efficient that doesn't confuse users. Looking at UI I can say how good the AV is.
WD creators update UI is horrible because I can't see quarantined threats and blocked malwares so I use older Mscui.exe to know which was blocked/quarantined.

 

Recent technical paper on Eset's security protections: https://cdn1-prodint.esetstatic.com/ESET/US/docs/about/ESET-Technology-Whitepaper.pdf

 

Post by Aryeh Goretsky at the ESET forum:
https://forum.eset.com/topic/14274-esets-response-to-meltdown-and-spectre-cpu-vulnerabilities/

 

ESET Internet Security bloat review: A highly rated security suite with an eye on the connected home-Pcworld.com

 

and you'd listen to these commercial magazines when the best they could tell you as a positive is " Drag-and-drop file scanning feature"? Yeah what about lightweight? Live Grid? HIPS? the only AV which has PUP detections in addition to Emsisoft Anti-Malware? What about it's superb HTTP Scanner?

This should be enough for me:



PS: @Papusan
I noticed you are running Windows Pretender on your taptop It is eating your CPU cycles slowly like this.......

Don't believe me? launch Autoruns, then type defender in the filter and see how many processes and tasks are running just to have this heavy AV work even half decently

Oh and did you know that Windows Defender has a long time bug where it would keep scanning the same files over and over again even if they didn't chance? Take for example my Software folder which has many custom icons for every folder within it. If I have Windows Pretender enabled, that folder and its icons would load in slow motion and the icons would appear one by one because Windows Defender is scanning it everytime I open it, it has no brains dude. It doesn't know what's the meaning of File Whitelisting. Like ESET whitelists all your files after you scan the entire system which is recommended to do once you install it, then those files won't be rescanned unless their hashes change

 

ESET NOD32 Antivirus updated to v11.0.159.5 = Download ESET NOD32 Live Installer

 

Pretender has them as well but it isn't advertised. That bug still exists on Insider release 17xxx. Told them several times and my throat's dry and now it made me senile.
You need to do a full system scan once a month for WD not to cause unnecessary stutters. I found it as a workaround. After that WD on my older PCs with HDD only 5400 rpm still feels like I'm not running AV at all. Same thing with USB drives once you full scan the usb drives the device metadata will be present in Windows so it will not slowdown ever again.

 

My ESET Antivirus shows v11.0.159.0 but the program says it's up to date. Should I install the .5 version from the link, just wondering.

 

Nope.

Here is an ESET Moderator's comment about the .5 update changelog:

The AV components/modules are auto updated anyway so that makes the versions the same with the difference that the .5 version is up to date out of the box. you know, good for installing on a fresh Windows install.

 

Are the ESET activation servers down? I can't get either of my NOD32 license keys to activate.

 

As Marcos replied to you, they should be back now.

 

Maybe they have been down due malware infection?

 

I don't think I've seen Newegg Canada give out such deals before.

 

Maybe they Kaspersky or Dr. web or Windows Defender.
I don't think they will be infected since they will running state of the art next gen AV with ML in their server as endpoint protection.

 

ESET HQ cannot be infected even if they wanted to infect themselves on purpose. They have been in the business for 30 years

 

Don't they test Malwares in a containment? You know it better than I do.
Do you actually use Layered Protection or just Eset or F secure AVs?

 

Other than the numerical difference, is there any realistic difference or advantage to buying the 1 year ESET NOD32 Antivirus 2018 vs 2017?

Newegg has the 2018 version for $39, just like the ESET website (which doesn't list a version year), but the Newegg 2017 version is $29. And cheaper still is Kinguin with an also undated version for $13.50, even if adding the $6 insurance it's less than $20.

Are all three pretty much equivalent?

 

it's all a marketing gimmick. Any ESET License would activate any respective product of any year / version.

You can grab a 2016 or 2017 license for cheap and they would activate the latest version just fine. That info is straight from the ESET Mods and from my experience of using ESET Products for the past 15 years

Be smart...be like Vasudev <<<

 

You forgot your tagline "Be Smart like Mr. phoenix"

 

That was my thought, but didn't want to buy a cheaper one only to find out that the 2018 version "now allows scanning of .DOCX files!!"

Thanks for the info!

 

Doesn't all AV scan's MS Office files for free on-demand?

 

@Vasudev , Perhaps my joke was too obtuse, or much too acute? Sorry my bad there...

I called ESET, and Phoenix's answer was confirmed regarding the license versions.

But my primary reason to call was because I wondered how long a NOD32 license key would be valid before it needed to be registered, i.e. could you buy it at a discount and use it at a later date? Answer was that the ESET tech could only see the key # once someone registered it, but he'd never heard of one expiring before it was activated and hadn't ever heard the key "itself" was time stamped.

 

Like Phoenix mentioned somewhere in this thread long time ago, upon getting your license login to ESET and add your serial key and the key will stay there if you forget/mis-place it.

 

No, my question to the ESET tech was directed at the pre-login period:
1) Buy the license
2) Go sit on the couch for 6 months, or a year.
3) Then try to activate.

This could realistically happen if I buy my brother a key...

 

The license validity only starts when you first activate it and never expires until j00 do

 

Looks like the most recent update broke this functionality because now the LiveGrid warning pops up after about 2 minutes of not having an Internet connection (I disconnect from the Internet when changing GPU drivers).

 

NOD32 Antivirus updated to v11.0.159.9 = Download

For all other ESET Product Updates = https://www.eset.com/me/download/home/

 

NOD32 Antivirus updated to v11.1.42.0 = Download

 

Yes i purchased from New Egg 2017 version recently and have got good discount. I believe there isn't much difference between 2017 and 2018.. But GOOD FOR THE POCKET

 

you can use any year license on the latest version of ESET's products. They aren't restricted to what year you buy.

 

But do I need it? Even English version with my <very> good English

 

New versions of ESET NOD32 Antivirus, ESET Internet Security and ESET Smart Security Premium version 11.2.49.0 have been released and are available to download.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus
ESET Internet Security & ESET Smart Security Premium

 

What level of this product are you guys using? Is the extra overhead from the higher levels of ESET worthwhile. New laptop coming soon. I’m pretty sure I don’t need the highest level one, but is the middle one (internet security) the one to choose? This laptop will be predominantly used away from my home, or office networks.

Currently the the basic and internet security versions cost the same. I mainly don’t want to add “un-needed” functions using more resources.

 

I personally used the top end package and the resource usage is the same as the others thus you have nothing to worry about there.

Heck I even have eset on my mobile.

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Just use the basic Antivirus, it has a built in HTTP scanner that will intercept and block any malicious connection or download. Don't over complicate your life with the extra bloat and having to deal with programs which may or not be blocked due to its firewall.

 

NOD32 Antivirus 11.2.63.0 have been released and nothing on their web site

 

classical ESET swiss cheese! they never post change logs. please complain to Mr. Marcos

 

I'll get ESET AV for my sister. Its super fast than WD.

 

Only if you get it cheap. Or just use WD until you can get it for an ok price. I would never buy it if I had to pay +$55 who is the price here home.

 

Changelog:
https://support.eset.com/news7020/

And Marcos posted it at the Eset forum:
https://forum.eset.com/topic/16762-eset-windows-home-products-version-112630-have-been-released/

 

Nice... Fixed: Issues with Webcam on Windows 10 RS4/RS5. Right before people (some ) migrate over to RS5. Maybe next uncovered flaws they find for use with RS5 will be released by Eset 1 month before RS6 come (whatever it will be called)