ESET Smart Security 9 is improved and includes botnets shield, exploit blocker and defense against vulnerabilities. The exploit blocker protects against zero-day attacks: browser, PDF reader, mail client and MS Office components, while the defense improves detection of network vulnerability.
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Eset: the engine is found vulnerable to an attack that allows outside read any file on the affected machine.
About Kaspersky, their network, according to information they have spread, was pierced with a series of highly sophisticated attacks that have undermined the search for vulnerabilities and the latest research projects in the field of 0-day and heuristic engines of society.
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ESET's protection capabilities are wise at all however due to being so dependent on their numerous algorithm, a possible bypass may occur easily which why your backup plan will be the HIPS feature. Other concepts are just run at the background to check the possible malicious threats.
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