ESET Smart Security 4

ESET’s Smart Security takes the structure built by their popular antivirus program NOD32 and adds on two wings: a personal firewall and a spam filter. Because much of Smart Security is the same as NOD32, this review will focus only on the firewall and spam filter.

The firewall’s advanced settings are Smart Security’s strength. Users can extensively customize the firewall’s behavior, but don’t have to. There are five default settings: automatic, automatic with user-defined exceptions, interactive, policy-based, and learning. You can set safe zones, configure remote desktop access, and manage intrusion detection, all from an uncluttered and easy-to-use menu. ESET chose usability over flashiness with its design, and users can jump between advanced options for any of Smart Security’s tools from the same pane.

The antispam filter is similarly effective and configurable. The program can automatically mark outgoing addresses as safe, as well as detect global address books. Smart Security is surprisingly light, consuming around 50MB of RAM when running, and users should note that NOD32 has consistently scored near the top of several independent antivirus testing organization ratings for finding the most malware while encountering fewer false positives than most.

Antivirus | Antispyware | Firewall | Antispam

FACT: Surfing the web and using email is a part of daily life.

FACT: Criminals capitalize on this to their advantage, flooding the Internet with over 100,000 new attacks every day, in an effort to steal your identity or turn your computer into a “zombie” to launch email spam and other Internet crimes.

FACT: Over 70 million users worldwide trust ESET to defend themselves from these attacks.

ESET Smart Security is the most effective protection you can use to combat today’s huge volumes of Internet and email threats. It combines ESET’s award-winning NOD32® proactive antivirus and antispyware protection with a powerful yet easy–to-use firewall and robust antispam technology.

Using our advanced ThreatSense® technology, ESET Smart Security proactively protects you from new attacks during the critical first hours when other vendors’ products are not even aware the attack exists. ESET Smart Security detects and disables both known and unknown viruses, trojans, worms, adware, spyware, rootkits and other Internet threats.

ESET Smart Security is also faster than any other Internet security suite, so fast you won’t even notice it running. It’s easy to use yet simple to optimize for your specific needs.

ESET Smart Security is security you can trust – every hour of every day.