Battle ESET Smart Security 9 vs Emsisoft Internet Security 11

[Vanduss]

Both are light, and user friendly but which one prevails in pure protection?

 

[Deleted member 2913]

Eset at default good for average users. Experts can make changes.

Emsisoft is good for intermediate & experts.

IMO both are good & Emsi have little edge with its behavior blocker.

 

[Alkajak]

EIS: Lighter. Better behaviour blocker (one of the best). More user friendly. Stronger default protection.

ESS: Heavier. Still some issues with HTTPS. Requires some tweaking to match/surpass EIS's default security.

Both products are above average.

 

[enaph]

EIS: better security at default settings, very good behavior blocker but less customization options. Lighter than ESS.
ESS: a little bit heavier than EIS, must be tweaked for better protection. Very good HIPS (after a few tweaks).

 

[Captain Awesome]

EIS:Better security,good BB and PUP blocking.But heavier.Updates are huge.
ESS:Always push signatures update of submitted threats very quickly,small but effective updates and also have well HIPS,IDS and ESET Banking & Payment protection,which EIS lack.

 

[Tyrizian]

My own personal experience.

ESET feels much more polished to me, not only that, it did extremely well in my personal testing.

Emsisoft is great in protection, but it didn't feel as optimized as I would have liked.

I voted ESET.

 

[JB007]

Hello
Your analysis are very helpfull for me.
Now it was 1 week that I'm testing EIS and ESS on my work PCs and on my personal PCs.
At work I cannot find any difference on the lightness but when I'm gaming on my personal PCs I think that ESET is a bit lighter.
About the parameters, I'm not a geek so Emsisoft' parameters are very much easy to understand for me than ESET' parameters.

 

[JB007]

Hello
I decided to vote Emsisoft Internet Security and to purchase a licence because it's more easy to use for a basic user like me.
As many of you are saying, EIS default settings are very good.
Two very fine points for me, the fidelity program with discounts when renewal and I saw on their support forum that Emsisoft support try to help everybody infected even if non user of their products.

 

[DJ Panda]

Eset gets the job done with cleaning and protection. Fairly light compared to Emisoft.

 

[JB007]

Hello,
I'm reading the last AV-Test report (March-April 2016) and it says that EIS protection against 0-day attacks is not very good : AV-TEST – The Independent IT-Security Institute

and ESET is only a bit better : AV-TEST – The Independent IT-Security Institute

Are these tests reliable and believable ?
If the answer is yes, I think that I have to find a more secure protection as soon as possible

 

[FleischmannTV]

According to Emsisoft there was a bug in the program on Windows 10 at the time when the testing was done, that's why the score was lower than expected.

Source:

Protection Score fall in latest Av-Test ! - Feedback, Comments and Suggestions

 

[JB007]

Hello
Thanks @FleischmannTV

 

[artek]

I wouldn't use any vendor that's adding a certificate to your certificate store to scan your SSL traffic, which ESET does. Like the guy above said, it's already known to cause problems and it arguably makes your system less secure. I wouldn't trust a vendor that uses such a lazy implementation because it makes me wonder what other kinds of corners they're cutting.

 

[Nevi]

As many have said,its two good applications,but IMO Emsisoft stand on ESS shoulders.Its an outstanding product,and I like they have a great behavior blocker Mamuto .Probably one of the best with WSA.
I voted Emsisoft.

 

[Andytay70]

Difficult to answer as i like both! But if you twisted my arm i would go for emsisoft.

 

[King Alpha]

Emsisoft because of it's Behavior Blocker (aka Mamutu) and it has a better protection (even at default settings) than ESS IMHO.

 

[Soulbound]

Emsisoft because of it's Behavior Blocker (aka Mamutu) and it has a better protection (even at default settings) than ESS IMHO.

Emsisoft BB is totally different from ESET protection approach (HIPS) (if that is what you are comparing to). These cannot be compared side by side.
ESET policy base mode still is way more secure but at a cost: takes time to maintain it.

 

[ravi prakash saini]

me too unable to decide which one is better so i installed EIS in one system and ESET in another but still unable to decide .Perhaps due to my online habit i will never see them in action and will never able to decide