Problem with threat

Discussion in 'ESET Smart Security' started by elnath78, Dec 28, 2009.

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  1. sir_carew

    sir_carew Registered Member

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    Lol, NOD32 is getting worse due to a few missed samples and the fact that apparently some people thinks that others AV detect the 100%.
    I can said the same about all others AVs regarding detection as I had samples that are only detected by ESET and not others big vendors including Symantec, Kaspersky or Antivir. If AV industry works as you mention, then all AV are loosing the battle.

     
  2. aido

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    You are right that all of the known Vendors does not have 100% Malware-Protection. But I think that ESET overslept development. They sitting in the Past for they many Awards but not in the future. Kasperky have a good HIPS, also Symantec with his Sonar one of the best, but what has Eset? Yes nothing. You dont think I do not like Eset. Eset is my favourive Security Protection. But on the other side, they no made to do make Big Points to be better as other Securities.

    Eset is in the past and not in the future. So its time to Work to get better protection and this know, and not in one or two years. However threatsense is a good Idea but not enough for this century. Eset should not believe we are stupidly User. If read the treats her you should think that the most also thinking as I that Eset is not more an good Security protection. For that time for me is bette to look at the other, unless Eset is ready know to do more to get this user back.

    Greetings,
    aido
     
  3. Marcos

    Marcos Eset Staff Account

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    Quite the contrary, advanced heuristics coupled with generic signatures provides incredible protection against new threats. Proactive protection is far much better than ever in the past and for this reason ESET is often one of the very few antivirus vendors to detect new threats proactively. For instance, I've recently seen more than 20 variants of Fakealerts in a day that were first detected by ESET and Etrust and detection by other vendors followed in a couple of hours or even days. Of course, there's no security solution that provides 100% protection against malware so it's normal you come across samples that are not detected by ESET. That's true for any vendor and that's the reason why you shouldn't keep any security protection outdated. What one detects the others may miss and vice-versa. Nearly 100% protection can only be achieved when antivirus protection is coupled with standard security precautions.
     
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  4. Rockever

    Rockever Registered Member

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    I totally agree, I always do tests on my VM and lately I've been testing Chinese sites that contain malicious scripts and Avira is blocking a good number of scripts, I take the same tests with NOD32 and it only blocked 4 scripts and only 1 of the sites was considered dangerous and blocked when trying to access, in my opinion needs to improve also the black list because if you come across a site that hosts a self-install that is unknown to the AV will be sad for you.

    It would be a good time to ESET create something decent to their customers because I see several friends uninstalling NOD32 to use the MSE.
     
  5. Rockever

    Rockever Registered Member

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    I send several suspicious files for Kaspersky, Avira and get answers on the same day but not get the same response from ESET why not put a staff just to answer e-mails or any automated service? ESET need to improve this criterion also because this response is very important for user.
     
  6. Marcos

    Marcos Eset Staff Account

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    A response is usually provided unless a huge number of samples is submitted by a malware collector on a regular basis. If you didn't get a response, feel free to PM me your email address or at least the subject of the email as well as the date you submitted it.
     
  7. Hotep

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    Exactly my point! I love ESET and want them to succeed but it's time to incorporate other technologies. I too have many colleagues making the switch for this very reason.
     
  8. aido

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    Now I have went to Kasperky but I have an Eye to Eset's development. At this time I feel me unsecure with Eset but I hope that changed this in earlier future. Also I hope that Version 5 should be going as strong Security with HIPS, Parental and Keylogger protection and one of my big points better cooperation with the User-Community.

    greetings,
    aido
     
  9. Cudni

    Cudni Global Moderator

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    good thing about Eset, among others, is that it can only get better and as is still maintains its place in the top league of AVs
     
  10. RASD

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    What I think is severe is not the fact it misses some samples – can happen to any antivirus.
    What I think is severe is that a file can force a shutdown on my computer, modify system files, disable processes, insert their keys on registry startup, start their processes, changing browser settings, etc and seriously messing up a system without me having the possibility to intervene.
    If the intend was to render my operating system useless or delete my personal files, that could also be easily done.

    Another thing – why can anyone create a simple bat file with the command to delete whatever they want automatically and very few antiviruses detect it as dangerous.
    I have made a test, send it to virustotal and only Bitdefender, Gdata and Fsecure flag it, saying BehavesLike:BAT.Delete
     
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  11. The Hammer

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    Don't GDATA and F-Secure currently employ the BitDefender engine?
     
  12. Cudni

    Cudni Global Moderator

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    because it is your machine to do as you please
     
  13. RASD

    RASD Registered Member

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    Maybe...
    But the fact that I can simple send someone a file saying nudegirl.bat :) and destroy their system when they click on it shouldn´t be allowed.
    That´s my opinion.
     
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