Eset Smart Security V.4.0
With a personal firewall, antispam, and the same antivirus and antispyware protection delivered by ESET NOD32 Antivirus, ESET Smart Security is the most comprehensive defense against Internet threats. These threats come in many forms. In fact, by the time you end reading this sentence, approximately 70 new variants of malware-viruses, trojans, worms, rootkits, spyware, and more-will have been released. But ESET Smart Security will keep you safe. And with the addition of personal firewall software, you can proactively filter make pleased, ensuring modified protection. ESET Smart Security is a tightly integrated solution designed to protect computers from a range of threats. Built on the award-winning ESET NOD32 Antivirus and its powerful ThreatSense engine, ESET Smart Security provides antispyware, antispam and modified firewall features to protect you, your family and your business from Internet threats.
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mcafee review
I have been running Eset Smart Security 4.0 for approximately 9 months and have had fantastic success with it. It runs quietly in the background and does not cause my computer to run slow like my previous antivirus did. I have Windows XP. I don’t know if that makes a difference. I feel terrible for the reviewers who had so much distress with the product. I have not had any virus problems since by Eset. It updates involuntarily, but I do run my scans manually. So far I am very pleased with the product.
This software is ridiculous. After learning how some anti-virus software can slow down a PC more than just about anything else (including some viruses) I uninstalled Comcast’s free McAfee and installed Norton. The result wasn’t much better. I use AVG’s free version at work, but it has problems granting access to programs and appears to take up too much reminiscence.
Possibly there’s cheaper AV software that can beat those programs, but I can’t imagine it meeting let alone surpassing the performance of Eset Smart Security. Yeah, my computer’s quicker, but I’ve also had no firewall issues – all the highly recommended free firewall programs make me manually recognize my network any time the computer resumes from sleep. This thing seems intuitive. It doesn’t throw a fit and protest every time I start Frostwire, but yet it is brilliant at recognizing downloads, software, and pages that should require user permission. Sometimes I’m like, “Shouldn’t I get a request to allow or deny permission/access,” and then about 30-hundreths of a second later – boom! There’s the alert. If anyone has or had McAfee you know about the multiple grant/deny requests for the same page or program – then, 30 seconds later when you reflect you’re done there’s another one.
Sometimes you get what you pay for. McAfee and Norton seem to invest most of their money in marketing allowing them to charge a cheaper rate for an inferior product. For some reason this appeals to a lot of people. I haven’t tried Kaspersky, Trend Micro, Bit Defender, or the others because too many people I consider experts recommended Eset. No need to continue shopping from my end. Sometimes it’s impossible to pay too small and get a lot. This is a fantastic product and well worth the price if you rank peace of mind and your computer not behaving like a Slowski as desireable things. You get what you pay for. There’s a 30 day no credit card needed trial if you want. That will get you 12 months and 23 days for $59.99 because after one week you’re going to choose you want it. Cheers.
I’ve used a number of different Anti Virus programs over the years. I’m a Unix user but I have to have a couple of Windows machines around. In the ancient days Norton was fine before it became full, AVG and Kaspersky (Also a excellent product). I am still running Windows XP and I found Eset Smart Security to be very simple to use without slowing my machine down. No knock on the individuals who had such a hard time but mine runs flawlessly. I had some difficulty getting my serial number and password emailed to me so I called Eset. I was able to get the information I needed in less than ten minutes. I guess it just depends on the users experience at just the incorrect time to dismiss it but I recommend this for ease of use and low overhead (Coded in assembly probably helps).
I have been by this program for nearly a year, it is light on resources and does its job silently. Fantastic product but a bit pricey..
I have had this program for two months on three of our family computers, and not only does it work fantastic, but it doesn’t slow down your computer. Before I had norton anti-virus, which was pretty decent, but it slowed two of my computers down significantly. Then I chose to try this out and it runs quick and does not interrupt me or anyone else while we play games. Overall, this is a fantastic buy and I plot on by eset for a long while.