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Good news for ESET V6 fans


morteza

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Really because since the last few releases of both version 5 and 6 of ESET Smart Security I started having the most annoying problems. First I had the computer completely crash when I turned on an external drive while Windows was running. However, It would work fine if I turned it on prior to boot. Then egui started crashing on a regular. I figured out it was because the firewall was in interactive mode. Some requests would work fine and I could even create permanent rules for application connections. However, with others it just straight up crashed with Visual Studio asking me if I wanted to debug. I've uninstalled, wiped all traces off of both the hard drive and the registry and then reinstalled but to no avail. Very frustrating to say the least. I didn't want to use their uninstaller because it has a warning that says: Using the ESET Uninstaller may reset your Windows network settings. It also states that your computer may be harmed seriously and to back up your data. That's always comforting to hear. :unsure:

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Who knows what caused your problems, and ESET is not for sure.

Cheers ;)

It is definitely ESET Smart Security because in Automatic mode the firewall works flawlessly with no crashing. There are other users having both issues and so far there hasn't been a fix even though several new versions have come out. I know because I searched online looking for a resolution. I have nothing against the product as I've been using it since it first came out but these kinds of issues for extended periods of time are annoying.

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I use interactive mode since Eset v5 is out and not a single issue. Maybe you have something conflicting with it on your system.

Cheers ;)

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I use interactive mode since Eset v5 is out and not a single issue. Maybe you have something conflicting with it on your system.

Cheers ;)

Also on Interactive since v4. There were a few probs with v4, a fewer with v5 now on v6 with interactive and no probs at all :)

Win7 x64 here.

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Great! I really like ESET.

And they respected the consumer and kept it light and without all the bloating common (crap) security solutions have implemented in their latest products.

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"Good news for ESET V6 fans" WHERE... a 5 page report (commissioned by ESET) about how good there latest AV is, WOW :wtf:

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"Good news for ESET V6 fans" WHERE... a 5 page report (commissioned by ESET) about how good there latest AV is, WOW :wtf:

Read again, let me quote, read the bold parts:

Improved Features:
Anti-Phishing: the previous version of ESET did not have dedicated Anti-Phishing capabilities. Due to this, the previous version achieved with its URL-filtering feature only a block rate of about 58% against phishing websites. The new 6.0 version includes a dramatically improved Anti-Phishing protection. In a test done by AV-Comparatives in parallel in July 2012, the improved score was already at about 94%
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Malware Removal: the cleaning capabilities in the new 6.0 version have been improved. In a test done by AV-Comparatives, a score of 86 (compared to a score of 76 of version 5) has been achieved for the malware removal.

You are correct in saying that it's commissioned by ESET, but ESET has all the rights to show off their new version, and the improvement is also echoed with AV-C results. :)

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Just install ESET NOD32 AV 6.0.306.0 and Outlook 2013 start to crash sending mails. This did not happen in the Release Candidate version. :s had to uninstall and all issues vanished. I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Should I wait for the fix?

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I'd be heavily outnumbered, but - I personally resent every new release from ESET (despite the fact - admittedly, that they're getting better and even fixing more bugs.)

What I'd like is an ESET release consisting of just one module - the standlalone AntiVirus.

I hate an all-in-one suite consisting of HIPS, anti-theft, anti-spyware, firewall, anti-malware, parental control.

I already have specialist standalone programs from 3rd party Developers for HIPS, anti-theft, anti-spyware, firewall, anti-malware, parental control.

Ideally, I'd like ESET to cater to 2 different segments - Newbies & Power Users (suites for Newbies & standalone modules for Power Users.)

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I definitely am LOVING ESET.
It's super lightweight and it gets the job done. It might not be as "strong" as Kaspersky and Bitdefender, but I don't download all those crazy cracks/patches/trainers when I was younger. Thus making ESET the perfect choice for me. More than enough for my day to day needs yet extremely light on system resources (this coming form a person who has an Intel 3770k processor)

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Malware Removal: the cleaning capabilities in the new 6.0 version have been improved. In a test done by AV-Comparatives, a score of 86 (compared to a score of 76 of version 5) has been achieved for the malware removal.

Still inferior to the protection provided by both BitDefender and Kaspersky.

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Malware Removal: the cleaning capabilities in the new 6.0 version have been improved. In a test done by AV-Comparatives, a score of 86 (compared to a score of 76 of version 5) has been achieved for the malware removal.

Still inferior to the protection provided by both BitDefender and Kaspersky.

And your basing that claim on what?

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Malware Removal: the cleaning capabilities in the new 6.0 version have been improved. In a test done by AV-Comparatives, a score of 86 (compared to a score of 76 of version 5) has been achieved for the malware removal.

Still inferior to the protection provided by both BitDefender and Kaspersky.

If it catches the bad guys before they infect your system , no need to clean them up! :showoff:

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yeahh, I made ​​the right choice :wub:

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Malware Removal: the cleaning capabilities in the new 6.0 version have been improved. In a test done by AV-Comparatives, a score of 86 (compared to a score of 76 of version 5) has been achieved for the malware removal.

Still inferior to the protection provided by both BitDefender and Kaspersky.

True, but with AVs, you have to decide between protection and performance.

BitDefender is not as slow as it was claimed, but it's not all sweet and dandy performance. And Kaspersky is, just, bad in performance (not as bad as Symentech EP or Avast I tell you). So, even though I've yet to try this new version, I'll always personally prefer performance, as AVs should be used as guidance, not armour.

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Malware Removal: the cleaning capabilities in the new 6.0 version have been improved. In a test done by AV-Comparatives, a score of 86 (compared to a score of 76 of version 5) has been achieved for the malware removal.

Still inferior to the protection provided by both BitDefender and Kaspersky.

And your basing that claim on what?

Off of the tests from the same people who gave the ESET 6 report. AV-Comparatives.

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Just install ESET NOD32 AV 6.0.306.0 and Outlook 2013 start to crash sending mails. This did not happen in the Release Candidate version. :s had to uninstall and all issues vanished. I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Should I wait for the fix?

Version 308 should fix your Outlook problems.

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Malware Removal: the cleaning capabilities in the new 6.0 version have been improved. In a test done by AV-Comparatives, a score of 86 (compared to a score of 76 of version 5) has been achieved for the malware removal.

Still inferior to the protection provided by both BitDefender and Kaspersky.

True, but with AVs, you have to decide between protection and performance.

BitDefender is not as slow as it was claimed, but it's not all sweet and dandy performance. And Kaspersky is, just, bad in performance (not as bad as Symentech EP or Avast I tell you). So, even though I've yet to try this new version, I'll always personally prefer performance, as AVs should be used as guidance, not armour.

Actually, Kaspersky is lighter on resources than Bitdefender. :)

http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/docs/avc_per_201210_en.pdf

I wasn't trying to say that ESET is bad, because it most certainly isn't. I was just saying it doesn't offer the amount of protection the other two do.

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