ESET v18
- Thread starter czesetfan
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Appeared in Edge after an update. Not bad.
But did it work differently before?
But did it work differently before?
update just went thru for me today( Wednesday)
Yes, I saw that too, and was wondering the same thing when mine updated last night. I guess it's a new and improved feature than what we were previously being protected by? Mine doesn't look like the one in the image, though?
edit: I'm starting to use dark mode more, like the Dark Reader app (eyes getting more sensitive to bright white screens) so dark mode for the extension looks pretty good. Nice color balance, IMO.
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It seems like it enables HTTPS scanning for many more websites with that enabled in the extension. The certificate shows up more and more for me on many websites.
Bitdefender exists...
The illustration shows the full version of the add-on available in Ultimate, which has the most features. For example, deleting metadata from uploaded images.
PSA for those who updated: Enhanced Data Protection is causing all sorts of issues: https://forum.eset.com/topic/45855-version-182140/#findComment-200682
In my case not only did I get the Firefox profile folder locked and unable to run my automated backup/sync jobs, but it also affected my Brave profile folder and it messed up all PWAs which lost their icons (the icons were blank when viewing in File Explorer). I don't really know what else got affected by it, but I'm certain there was more.
Meanwhile, Portable Firefox has stopped working completely with this feature as it locks all write operations even from the Firefox executable itself.
Disabling Enhanced Data Protection fixed it immediately.
I've been saying that enforcing Secure All Browsers was a bad move since day one when this feature debuted a couple of years ago. To this day I still randomly get scrambled keyboard input in browsers and even on Windows. Now they've intentionally decided to lock browser profile folders without warning (yes, this new issue is a feature, not a bug).
In all honesty, I'm really tired of ESET breaking stuff on new versions. Right now I run a combination of ESET and Kaspersky on my devices. Take a guess which ones I have to troubleshoot every now and then and who is the culprit.
In my case not only did I get the Firefox profile folder locked and unable to run my automated backup/sync jobs, but it also affected my Brave profile folder and it messed up all PWAs which lost their icons (the icons were blank when viewing in File Explorer). I don't really know what else got affected by it, but I'm certain there was more.
Meanwhile, Portable Firefox has stopped working completely with this feature as it locks all write operations even from the Firefox executable itself.
Disabling Enhanced Data Protection fixed it immediately.
I've been saying that enforcing Secure All Browsers was a bad move since day one when this feature debuted a couple of years ago. To this day I still randomly get scrambled keyboard input in browsers and even on Windows. Now they've intentionally decided to lock browser profile folders without warning (yes, this new issue is a feature, not a bug).
In all honesty, I'm really tired of ESET breaking stuff on new versions. Right now I run a combination of ESET and Kaspersky on my devices. Take a guess which ones I have to troubleshoot every now and then and who is the culprit.
It's really heavy on my computer with the glitch of endless full system scan. Also no option for settings backup & restore. It's really BugDefender not Bitdefender.
Hmm, so far I am not noticing any strange with that setting on. Vivaldi runs perfectly well so far, and hasleo made the daily backup just fine. (And I have the latest version of ESET SSP.)
Maybe it depends on the browser and backup program people use?
From that thread, it seemed to be the case. But I still disabled Secure browser/Enhanced data protection, for now on my end.
Vivaldi does not get the protection that can cause these issues with ESET. You still get HTTPS scanning in Vivaldi. Only Brave, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox get the full browser protection where profiles are locked by ESET. I use Vivaldi as well (love it)!
Doh, I freaking keep forgetting that the extension does not work in Vivaldi.
Interesting statement: https://forum.eset.com/topic/45807-ransomware-remediation/page/3/#comments 
So ESSP will get a "new" feature, but this feature isn't ransomware remediation. That is still being discussed by the execs... Going to complain on the forums may get this changed.Interesting statement: https://forum.eset.com/topic/45807-ransomware-remediation/page/3/#comments
ESET Smart Security Premium just updated to version 18.2.17.0 for me, but I got no message with what the updated did.
Changelog:
Version 18.2.17
- FIXED: BSODs and memory leaks related to the Microphone Monitor
- FIXED: Safe Banking and Browsing icon reappears on the desktop when deleted by the user after a system restart
- FIXED: Process names with UTF-8 encoding are incorrectly displayed in the Microphone Monitor notifications
Known issues:
- The application name in Unicode is not displayed correctly in Microphone monitor notifications
Well ...
1 - personally, I do not put much care in what AV testing sites mention about a AV suite. (All AV can test bad or good at times.)
2 - I use ESET Smart Security Premium, not HOME Essentials.
3 - However, no AV is 100%, so ESET is not the only security layer I use on my Desktop.
4 - I use my Brain when I am online, so when something does not feel right to me online, I avoid and/or block it.
93% seems pretty good for blocking phishing sites, but this test URL did not show other test results, and I did not hunt for them this morning.
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