Eset Smart Security; What's New; System Requirements - ESET SMART SECURITY User Manual

1. ESET Smart Security

ESET Smart Security is the first representative of the new approach to
truly integrated computer security. It utilizes the speed and precision
of ESET NOD32 Antivirus, which is guaranteed by the most recent
version of the ThreatSense® scanning engine, combined with the
tailor‑made Personal firewall and Antispam modules. The result is
an intelligent system which is constantly on alert for attacks and
malicious software endangering your computer.
ESET Smart Security is not a clumsy conglomerate of various products
in one package, as offered by other vendors. It is the result of a
long‑term effort to combine maximum protection with minimum
system footprint. The advanced technologies based on artificial
intelligence are capable of proactively eliminating the penetration
of viruses, spyware, trojan horses, worms, adware, rootkits, and
other Internet‑borne attacks without hindering system performance
or disrupting your computer.
1.1

What's new

The long‑time development experience of our experts is demonstrated
by the entirely new architecture of the ESET Smart Security program,
which guarantees maximum detection with minimum system
requirements. The complex security solution contains modules with
several advanced options. The following list offers you a brief overview
of these modules.
▪ Antivirus & antispyware
This module is built upon the ThreatSense® scanning core, which was
used for the first time in the award‑winning NOD 32 Antivirus system.
The ThreatSense® core is optimized and improved with the new ESET
Smart Security architecture.
Feature Description
The antivirus system now intelligently cleans
Improved Cleaning and deletes most of the detected infiltrations
without requiring user intervention.
Computer scanning can be launched in
Background
the background without slowing down
Scanning Mode
performance.
Core optimization processes keep the size of
update files smaller than in version 2.7. Also,
Smaller Update Files
the protection of update files against damage
has been improved.
It is now possible to scan incoming mail
Popular EMail Client
not only in MS Outlook but also in Outlook
Protection
Express and Windows Mail.
– Direct access to file systems for high speed
and throughput.
Variety of Other
– Blocking access to infected files
Minor Improvements
– Optimization for the Windows Security
Center, including Vista.
▪ Personal firewall
The Personal firewall monitors all traffic between a protected
computer and other computers in the network. ESET Personal firewall
contains advanced functions as listed below.
Feature Description
Network communication scanning on the
Low layer network
Data Link Layer enables ESET Personal firewall
communication
to overcome a variety of attacks that would
scanning
otherwise be undetectable.
ESET Personal firewall displays IPv6 addresses
IPv6 support
and allows users to create rules for them.
Monitoring changes in executable files in
Executable file
order to overcome infection. It is possible to
monitoring
allow file modification of signed applications.
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Integrated file scanning into the HTTP
File scanning
and POP3 application protocols. Users are
integrated with
protected when browsing the Internet or
HTTP and POP3
downloading emails.
Ability to recognize the character of network
Intrusion Detection communication and various types of network
System attacks and an option to automatically ban
such communication.
Users can select whether the firewall actions
Interactive, will be executed automatically, or if they want
Automatic or to set rules interactively. Communication in
Policy‑based mode policy‑based mode is handled according to
support rules predefined by the user or the network
administrator.
Supersedes the Integrated Windows Firewall,
it also interacts with the Windows Security
Supersedes
Center so the user is always informed about
Integrated Windows
his security status. ESET Smart Security
Firewall
installation turns off the windows firewall by
default
▪ Antispam
ESET Antispam filters unsolicited email and therefore increases the
security and comfort of electronic communication.
Feature Description
All Incoming mail is assigned a rating
ranging from 0 (a message is not spam) to
Incoming Mail 100 (a message is spam), and transferred
Scoring accordingly into the Junk Mail folder or into
a custom folder created by the user. Parallel
scanning of incoming emails is possible.
– Bayes analysis
Supports a variety of
– Rule‑based scanning
scanning techniques
– Global fingerprint database check
Antispam protection is available to users
Full integration with
of Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and
email clients
Windows Mail clients.
Manual spam There is an option to manually check /
selection is available uncheck email as spam.
1.2

System requirements

For seamless operation of ESET Smart Security and ESET Smart
Security Business Edition, the system should meet the following
hardware and software requirements:
ESET Smart Security:
Windows 2000, XP 400 MHz 32‑bit / 64‑bit (x86 / x64)
128 MB RAM of system memory
35 MB available space
Super VGA (800 × 600)
Windows Vista 1 GHz 32‑bit / 64‑bit (x86 / x64)
512 MB RAM of system memory
35 MB available space
Super VGA (800 × 600)
ESET Smart Security Business Edition:
Windows 2000, 400 MHz 32‑bit / 64‑bit (x86 / x64)
2000 Server, XP, 2003 128 MB RAM of system memory
Server 35 MB available space
Super VGA (800 × 600)
Windows Vista 1 GHz 32‑bit / 64‑bit (x86 / x64)
512 MB RAM of system memory
35 MB available space
Super VGA (800 × 600)