ESET Windows home products version 16

Wht is ESET Forwarder? No reply yet on the ESET forum about what this service does: https://forum.eset.com/topic/35945-installed-16114

 

This has been discussed previously in a sub-forum there you may not have access to. A user posted this link as a response.
https://help.eset.com/ees/9/en-US/idh_config_notice.html

 

Not sure if this was exactly what you are asking about but I'm also not sure what I am allowed to share.

 

got it, looks like an option to forward security incidents to an email

 

I don't beleive ESET Forwarder has anything to do with e-mail protection. It was also added to the consumer product versions which do not have the ability to configure a SMTP server.

-EDIT- It does exist in the consumer versions under Eset GUI Notifications section. So it appears it is related to e-mail activities.

 

Hey guys - I'm about to trial Eset Internet Security and would appreciate any setup tips (are the default settings good enough?).

 

Default settings are IMO good.
I usually disable Banking Protection and Antispam as I don't need them. For other protection I just make some minor changes here an there.

 

Thanks for the feedback. For my PC activities banking protection is important. How does EIS provide that?

 

Start here:
https://support.eset.com/en/kb5657-how-to-use-eset-banking-and-payment-protection

 

Thanks (these forums need a 'Thank you' system)!

 

I received message "eset push notification service cannot be reached" this morning.
The status of the issue can be followed at the Eset forum here:
https://forum.eset.com/topic/36116-eset-push-notification-service-cannot-be-reached/

 

No such error observed in Endpoint Security.

 

From Marcos at Eset:
"Please disregard the error for now. Interim outages of the EPNS service have been observed recently and we've been actively working on the issue to resolve it as soon as possible.
We expect the situation to stabilize and the EPNS unreachable notification to cease soon. We apologize for the inconvenience."

 

I had the message for most of the day. It has stopped now.

 

I got this message today also. First I chose Do not remind me again option, but reenabled that message again to see when problem will be resolved. ATM I still have this message present.

 

+1

 

Got it here at work today. Slowly has been getting resolved.

 

I just did a full scan with EIS on Win 7 Pro 64-bit
I got a PUA on NirSoft Mail PassView:
NirSoft Mail PassView\Version 1_92\mailpv.zip » ZIP » mailpv.exe - Win32/PSWTool.MailPassView.F potentially unsafe application - cleaned

That file is for quite some time on my system; just in case I need it. Why it is just now detected, I don't know.

Yes, I understand PUA but I do wish that this kind of detection on NirSoft stops now.

 

Not being detected by mine. If you enable detection of PUAs you will get this. If not you won't. You could make an exclusion. I doubt this will change, it's a fair detection if you are scanning for PUAs.

 

Yes, I understand that.
But can you explain why it was now "flagged"? And was that the same version?
That file was for quite some time on my system. And earlier today I did also a full scan: nothing.
Something must have suddenly changed by ESET with regard to this .....

 

Possibly something in a definition update. Did you try to run it when it was detected?

 

Hi,
"possible something in a definition update". Ehh, yes, sorry, I suppose you can read between the lines.
Sorry, but you didn't reply about which version of that file you scanned ....

 

My best guess is someone has been detected using the utility maliciously.

 

I think @itman is right. That's what happened probably. It's understandable for AV products to detect tools like this as PUP/PUA because they can be used maliciously. Bitdefender Endpoint products for example detect almost all NirSoft tools as PUP but home products don't. ESET's PUA is a category where they add detections for items that are generally safe to use but can be used maliciously into the wrong hands.

 

https://forum.eset.com/topic/37173-eset-windows-home-products-version-16211-have-been-released/