of course I never read the Eset forum -- Eset still
but I ran G Data for a year, liked it, no problems with it.ESET v19
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but I ran G Data for a year, liked it, no problems with it.
Don't. Know Macos beef with Eset but seemed to be with uninstalling it, anyway ,backup really helps unwanted programs go away(just time your backup before any new program) system restore also (lol) just make sure its on, also great for removing unwanted, anyway if you can TuxTalk put cyberlock or appguard next to any AV and chances of being infected are very rare.
I'm an ESET NOD32 user since many years. In past, Norton AV used to a resource hog. Has time changed it?
I run Crowdstrike by NordVPN next to GDATA, great combo. I dont need more. But thanks for the info.
I've not used NOD32 for some time but in essence would prefer it to the new all singing all dancing ESET but that's just me, Norton now is pretty lite but IMHO very busy with up-sell etc, if you like NOD you may not like Norton, but there is one way to find out I reckon? There are trials but myself I bought a key off Ebay last time I used it...I did not last long even though I did try to like it
@TuxTalk so you like NordVPN ?? & the crowdstrike feature is worth trying Nord??
I just gave it a spin and I must say that NordVPN runs awfully on my system compared to MozillaVPN (Mullvad). The Threat Protection Pro feature seems to be working quite well, but it only scans your downloads for malware (static analysis) or blocks malicious sites. It's not a full security software. Wish I could test it for longer, but my connection speed and system response was awful.
Norton has basically become a clone of Avast/AVG and so has become extremely light. The only downside is the upsell ads which needs to be blocked by the firewall. Norton comes with all the protection one needs. I switched from ESET to Norton just because of this. ESET locks essential protections for the higher suites. Unless and until they implement protected folders in the Internet Security version, I won’t be buying ESET anymore. The only useful thing missing from Norton is the hardened mode which both Avast and AVG have.
I have almost no speed difference and really dont even notice the vpn is on. @Kongo is correct, its not a full suite but just an extra layer of protection next to your Anti Malware solution. I have a license until 2031 for Nordvpn so for me its a keeper.
I have uninstall Eset Nod32 Antivirus using Control panel and it removed installation of their context menu app (folder C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\EsetContextMenu_19.0.14.0_neutral__f55j32bkf4yvt\ was removed), but left some cache data, that can't be removed easily in folders:
C:\ProgramData\Packages\EsetContextMenu_f55j32bkf4yvt\
C:\Users\All Users\Packages\EsetContextMenu_f55j32bkf4yvt\
App buster, though, doesn't show it as installed.
It also left some data in user profile folder: C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Local\Packages\EsetContextMenu_f55j32bkf4yvt\ and Outlook plugin file in C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Roaming\ESET\ESET Security\, but those can be removed without a problem.
Even after using their uninstall tool in safe mode, using option "Purge leftover ESET Security data", those folders and files remained. So it seems that even their uninstall tool won't remove all leftover data.
Thanks, i could delete this folder manually. Didnt know there are still remains.
This one , had no data with me inside
On my system there was a DB file inside with name eplgOutlook-[LONG_NUMBER].db. From it's name it seems to be related to outlook plugin and it was probably created since I was using Outlook and have had Outlook integration enabled.
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MD is not too bad these days in terms of lightness, but some obvious speed improvements for certain operations can be felt after installing ESET.
For lightness excluding web-browsing speed among the ones I tested on my own PC recently, I would say from lightest to heaviest are:
ESET > Kaspersky > Avast/AVG > Microsoft Defender > Bitdefender. Surprisingly, on some daily activities, BD's impact was more noticeable than MD.
If I only talk about web-browsing speed, then,
MD > Avast = ESET > Bitdefender > Kaspersky. Avast often wins by some milliseconds against ESET, but not always. ESET wins against Avast if multiple tabs are opened quickly, one after another.
I also monitor CPU usage both under pressure and on idle. I think this is something nobody really checks, but I do. The order for me would be,
ESET > Avast > Bitdefender > Kaspersky > Microsoft.
If CPU usage is measured while browsing, then MD will go from last to first place.
A few days ago, while I was updating a certain program that has thousands of small script files, MD's CPU usage was between 78-83% for about 30 seconds. ESET's CPU usage was 12%. This is perhaps an extreme example, but under such pressure, the difference can be huge.
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I’ve noticed after a recent update to Windows that the CPU had some resource usage that wasn’t being shown in some monitoring software. I only noticed because I was tweaking my system and A-B testing setting for my processor in the UEFI. Suddenly for 1-2 hours after a fresh boot benchmark scores seemed to be 2-4% lower no matter what I did outside of booting into safe mode. I figured it was part of Windows. But after testing both ESET and McAfee that seems to not be happening. Making me wonder if it has something to do with Defender. I have uninstalled ESET, decided to give McAfee a spin due to SSD writes for signatures on ESET. For the moment I’ll probably stay there.
Oh, interesting. Could it be something to do with VBS? But if it was VBS, you should've seen it with third-party AVs also. So probably that's not the case. Maybe MD's tight integration with the OS has something to do with it.
I should test McAfee also. But some members here said that it started to show a lot of ads. My main issue with McAfee is that it only scans on execution. I prefer my AV to notify me and delete malware as soon as it lands on the disk.
I have seen less ads than when I last tried Bitdefender. It eliminated bad downloads when they hit the download folder so that’s enough for me. If I’m getting a thumb drive from someone either use my extra laptop to check it out first or scan the files immediately anyway.
VBS was on in all cases, which may be leading to the inconsistency. But it has also been on with ESET and McAfee.
may or may not be on topic, I now run latencymon occasionally to see how the system is doing under normal and heavy loads... I had never heard of it and chatGPT said try it when I was having a resource issue (due to slight imbalance -- ie too much going to VMs away from Host).
It looks like it's finally here! 19.1.12
https://forum.eset.com/topic/48676-version-191120-is-rolling-out/
New feature: blocking screen recording and sharing.
https://forum.eset.com/topic/48676-version-191120-is-rolling-out/
New feature: blocking screen recording and sharing.
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Hi, I just updated it to the new version
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