ESET Windows home products version 15

This is odd. I saw this posted elsewhere this morning and found I was already on this version and was never notified or prompted for a reboot.

 

This release is called SkyNet lol.

 

Hi Jack,

That is indeed strange. Maybe settings? Did you reboot?
BTW I'm on regular release channel.

 

I'm on pre-release but I still usually get prompted to reboot for an update. I never saw any indication that I was receiving this update. It's not really a problem, it just seems odd.

 

You could have a look at your Eset Events Logs (assuming you still have them):
Tools > More Tools > Log files > Events
Here is part of mine about the update:
"Update;An update to version 15.1.12.0 is prepared and will be applied after computer restart"

 

Looks like it updated on the evening of the 23rd. I never saw a notification. No big deal I guess. It just seemed odd as I usually see something.

 

Does NOD32 do a boot-time scan?

 

Yes. There is a startup scan.

 

@Thankful -- Thanks!!!

 

It doesn't have a "boot-time" scan that is performed before windows starts (something similar to Avast). It does however have a startup scan (scan of things that start with Windows), which is performed when windows starts and after each signature update.

 

Uh-oh. Thanks for the added info, @Minimalist.

Since ESET lacks a boot-time scan, I shall skip ESET and go for an AV that DOES scan at boot-time. I haven't used a more or less "permanent" real-time AV in a long while (except to test or play with for a week or so). However, certain recent developments have impelled me to use a real-time scanner for now, and it must have a boot-time scan.

 

Use what you want. Been using ESET NOD32 since 2002, never had one virus. If ESET is on, no way you'd get a virus to start off with....HTTP Scanner, HIPS, etc., so why the heck you're worried about the boot time scan? do you think a virus will magically pop from the internet during boot up that ESET will miss? Sorry but this makes 0 sense.

 

I suggest you do a bit of googling re the prudent need for boot-time scan capability. Times have changed -- VERY recently so.

Boot-time scans have long been available on many AVs, including MSDefender, Norton, AVG/Avast, BitDefender and several others. Up until recently I had no need to use them. In fact, I didn't use ANY real-time AV for that matter. However, times have changed & boot-time scans are a prudent preventive measure -- readily available in other AVs but not ESET. Ergo, I shall use one of the others for the nonce. Why ever not?

I'm happy for you. I have not used ANY real-time AV for several years & also have never had one virus. Those kind of anecdotal statements are often used by well-meaning folks to validate this or that AV but they prove nothing.

 

Hi bellgamin

What are you referring to when you say "boot time scan"? The reason I ask is that ESET does have a Startup Scan (as they call it...this from an ESET KB article).

"By default, your ESET product will scan programs and memory at startup to protect your system from malware that attacks system memory used in the startup process. If your system startup scan is taking an unusually long time to complete, you may have conflicting programs set to run at startup."

Are you looking for something else, perchance?

Regards, Baldrick

 

@Baldrick He's referring to a malware scan which runs before Windows boots and the desktop loads, not a scan which runs once Windows has finished booting.

 

Yet ESET is among the very few that have the important UEFI scanner.


https://www.eset.com/afr/about/news...at-is-uefi-scanning-and-why-do-you-need-it-4/

 

OK, my bad... I genuinely believed that ESET (Smart Security) does this...as it can scan the boot sector and master boot sector. I obviously misunderstood what was meant by the original "Since ESET lacks a boot-time scan,...".

Regards, Baldrick

 

sure that some users need or demand boot scan. from my (simple) view: if a boot scan find malware the whole security concept has failed in the previous session.

 

Exactly what I was going to say.

 

@cruelsister
Tested ESET boot time protection 6 years ago
https://youtu.be/RbxXZlJ2iAs

 

Here's an old (2011) thread dealing with the same topic ...

Why Isn't There A "Boot Scan" Option In ESET Like Avast?

that includes a response from @Marcos ...

 

that was my intention to say, then everything else had failed and the malware is cloaking. it does not matter if mbr or uefi.

 

Per prior post, ESET rep Marcos said...

Hmm... "as soon as possible" is ambiguous. In my recent trial of NOD32, it loaded slower than other AVs I have trialed. However, I posted in this thread merely to seek a simple bit of information that I could not find on ESET's website. I'm not saying the info isn't there somewhere. I'm just saying I did a reasonable search & couldn't find it. Such info was easily found on websites of other AVs.

As for the persistent nay-sayers who infer that a boot-time scan is totally useless, they might be right and all the several major AVs that include it are doing so solely as an advertising gimmick. Or.... maybe they are wrong. Hmmm... should I buy an AV with that possibly useless boot-time feature -- or not? (3 guesses as to which way I go.)

I DO appreciate all the comments, unexpectedly contentious as they were, considering that my initial post asked a rather minor Yes/No question.

 

Not a single ounce of contentiousness in the info I posted here. I did so in the hope of assisting you. I'll know better next time.

 

@Page42 -- T'wasn't you I was referring to. Never.