Eset Smart Security 4; What's New - ESET SMART SECURITY 4 - FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS 7-VISTA-XP-2000-2003-2008 User Manual

1. ESET Smart Security 4

ESET Smart Security 4 is the first representative of a 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 that 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 infiltration by
viruses, spyware, trojan horses, worms, adware, rootkits, and other
Internet‑borne attacks without hindering system performance or
disrupting your computer.
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What's new

The long‑time development experience of our experts is demonstrated
by the entirely new architecture of ESET Smart Security, which
guarantees maximum detection with minimum system requirements.
This robust 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 engine, which
was used for the first time in the award‑winning NOD32 Antivirus
system. ThreatSense® is optimized and improved with the new ESET
Smart Security architecture.
Feature Description
Improved Cleaning The antivirus system now intelligently cleans
and deletes most detected infiltrations
without requiring user intervention.
Background Computer scanning can be launched in
Scanning Mode the background without slowing down
performance.
Smaller Update Files Core optimization processes keep the size of
update files smaller than in version 2.7. Also,
the protection of update files against damage
has been improved.
Popular Email Client It is now possible to scan incoming email not
Protection only in Microsoft Outlook but also in Outlook
Express, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail
and Mozilla Thunderbird.
Other Minor – Direct access to file systems for high speed
Improvements and throughput.
– Blocked access to infected files
– Optimization for the Windows Security
Center, including Vista.
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• Personal firewall
The Personal firewall monitors all traffic between a protected
computer and other computers in the network. ESET Personal firewall
contains the advanced functions listed below.
Feature Description
Low Layer Network Network communication scanning on the
Communication Data Link Layer enables ESET Personal firewall
Scanning to overcome a variety of attacks that would
otherwise be undetectable.
IPv6 Support ESET Personal firewall displays IPv6 addresses
and allows users to create rules for them.
Executable File Monitoring changes in executable files in
Monitoring order to overcome infection. It is possible to
allow file modification of signed applications.
File Scanning Integrated file scanning of HTTP(s) and
Integrated with POP3(s) application protocols. Users are
HTTP(s) and POP3(s) protected when browsing the Internet or
downloading emails.
Intrusion Detection Ability to recognize the character of network
System communication and various types of network
attacks with an option to automatically ban
such communication.
Interactive, Users can select whether the Personal firewall
Policy‑based, actions will be executed automatically
Learning, Automatic or if they want to set rules interactively.
and Automatic mode Communication in Policy‑based mode is
with exceptions handled according to rules predefined by the
user or the network administrator. Learning
mode automatically creates and saves rules
and is suitable for initial configuration of the
firewall.
Supersedes Supersedes the Integrated Windows Firewall
Integrated Windows and interacts with the Windows Security
Firewall Center to monitor security status. ESET
Smart Security installation turns off the
Windows firewall by default.