Software Review ESET Review 2024: Tested in depth vs Malware (TPSC)
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I agree with that. I don't see a need to make any excuses. Their product did well when tested with out-of-a-box configuration, so why would they have to make excuses when tester turned off products protection before making additional test?I don't know if that's an excuse if that's the way the product works.
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Well whoever is buying these excuses is to blame, not the businesses pushing them.
And how else is he supposed to test solely the behavioural blocker? His platform generates exe files that are low reputation and get deleted instantly.
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All in all, we bombarded ESET with 2,000+ malware files, disabled real-time protection, and tested HIPS in automatic mode (the weakest configuration of HIPS).
Anybody who thinks ESET is useless because of the result deserves to be a Leo's suscriber.
All in all, we bombarded ESET with 2,000+ malware files, disabled real-time protection, and tested HIPS in automatic mode (the weakest configuration of HIPS).
Anybody who thinks ESET is useless because of the result deserves to be a Leo's suscriber.
For example, you have a lot of HIPS rules for system security configured manually or in learning mode, but you need to install something to bypass real-time protection without disabling the security of HIPS-protected resources. Being able to flexibly use components doesn't mean that components should be completely independent and autonomous, especially I don't support when a product decides for me how I want to do things, that's probably one of the things why I like Eset. Also casual user is unlikely to go disabling components for fun.
ESET is an excellent antivirus, but it is expensive 
ESET is a product that relies mainly on signatures and lacks proper proactive security. ESET's proactive feature, called HIPS, is useless without an approved program list. On the other hand, Kaspersky and Bitdefender have complex but smart and effective proactive technologies that I find impressive. On the whole, ESET is just an average product, particularly when used in its recommended or default configuration.
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I really like ESET. It would be my absolute favorite AV if it had the behavior blocker of Kaspersky or Bitdefender.
He should contact vendor and ask them how their software should be configured to test that component only. If such configuration is not possible then performing that test is pointless.
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ESET has HIPS. The HIPS is extremely powerful in the right hands. The problem is to take advantage of that powerful HIPS the user needs to have commensurate skills, knowledge and - the most important - attitude. If you are that class of person then you chuckle when you see these kinds of threads.
Nobody cares about HIPS this day and age because there is very little evidence that other modules are failing and unable to do their job.
Automatically collecting malware and pushing machine-generated signatures has been working for Eset for the past 10 years + and will continue to work for the next 10 years as well.
The test here is intended for a special and more curious audience that wants to know how well the behavioural blocking is doing.
For the faint hearted and average Joes, there is AV-Test.org
I "upgraded" from Nod32 to Premium shortly after ESET offered LiveGuard. It analyzed 2 or 3 files, usually took 4 to 5 min. Then system firewall crapped out, ESET support was totally unhelpful in providing a fix. In fact, one ESET group told me one thing, another ESET group told me 180 degrees contrary! Techie things that normally fix something like this did not. Eventually I limped over to MS support and we ended up reinstalling windows, and I uninstalled ESET Premium, (this was circa May_2023). I recall reading about others also having firewall problem with Premium. Don't know if they fixed it. I do currently run Nod32 on one VM.
Given that there are still issues getting reported to this day about their firewall notifications, which stop showing up and block all traffic eventually, I very much doubt it.
And those appeared at least a decade ago (literally 2014), and I can attest to their existence since then until earlier this year when I stopped using their products.
Yeah, it's in the Premium version:
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live guard was part of Premium circa May 2023, the last time I used Premium before uninstalling it.
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