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87 out of 96 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: ESET Smart Security 3.0.642
Pros: Excellent yet simple security suite. Re-designed GUI has addressed my past issues with NOD32. It works like all suites should. Fast, light and effective. This is an excellent choice or Vista users as well as XP users.
Cons: It's rather expensive and the suite isn't available where I do my on line software shopping. None the less, I'm happy I came off the cash to buy a 2 user license.
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88 out of 89 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: ESET Smart Security 3.0.642
Pros: We have 3 computers in our home. A new Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop, an Dell Inspiron D530 Desktop and a 15" HP laptop that we travel with. The wifes in California with a sick mother so thats where the new Dell was delivered to. I suggested ESET Smart Security for it because it has Vista Ultimate. She bought a 3 user license but the wrong one, It was for NOD32, not the suite. She overnighted me the disks so I could install Vista Ultimate on the Dell desktop (hating Vista Home Premium). Went to install the new suite only to se the mistake. I called and instructed her to upgrade to the suite, now!
In the meantime I installed Kaspersky on the new system. Today I attempted a scan. After 2 hours, it was 15% complete. Noy at all acceptable. She forwarded me the email from ESET with the new license. Angry, I killed Kaspersky with it's built in uninstaller. I installed ESET and things are all good now. Full scan completed in an hour. Thats, 40 Gb on the internal drive & 145 Gb on the external drive.
It has a vastly improved GUI, it's light on resources and at AV comparatives today, I downloaded an AC comparative survey where I found ESET to be the highest one in customer satisfaction and recommendations. like the others, I can , without reservation recommend this product to both Vista and XP users.
Cons: Expensive, no parental controls or data theft protection. Firewall could use a few more settings. Other then those, nothing further.
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80 out of 81 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: ESET Smart Security 3.0.642
Pros: I was using NOD32 antivirus along with comodo firewall running vista but I had problems with my system locking up on me at times then I tried Eset smart security and I like it. The footprint it leaves is the same as the stand alone AV, so that's nice. The firewall scored low on (matousec).com so I was scepticle. But I tried it with the firewall set at interacive mode and nothing gets out or in without initially approving it. Matousec must put these firewalls through a gauntlet of tests because some decent firewalls scored pretty low on them. The spam module is a nice little add in also. But I haven't found anything better than mailwasher in that reguard. You can go to purplus software and get the suite for 32.95 or the stand alone av for 28.95 so that is the route I would recommend if you decide to purchase it. ESET offers a 30 day trial. As far as scans go its fairly quick. Of course the detection rate of ESET has become the industry standard so if you want good av protection NOD32 is as good as it gets.
Cons: No Cons
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73 out of 77 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: ESET Smart Security 3.0.642
Pros: Not only is it light on system resources but it does a great job on stopping the bad boys.
Cons: With this program there is nothing to dislike, that is unless you like to dislike...
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50 out of 53 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: ESET Smart Security 3.0.642
"It Doesn't Seem To Do Anything To My Computer."
Cons: It doesn't seem to remove any viruses from my computer. I think Kaspersky is still better eventhough the ratings have dropped down.
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