First Look

Isn't competition a beautiful thing! It spurs innovation. I've yet to ever try KIS, though I hear the AV is quite good.

Anyway, keep up the great work, ESET! You have a real winner here.

MNKid

 

i will have to admit that i had no issue with this beta......however i will make a few observations:

1.I found that sites loaded slowly with this beta as compared to avast or nod32 ....

2.I found the option menu quite confusing.....i had to spend atleast 5-10 mins before i could,even,find the option to disable "splash-screen" to show at start-up...

I hope eset makes the option-menu(advanced) more simple like v2.7

 

I'm currently testing KIS, having tried ESS for a few days and KIV seems to slow the PC more than ESS particularly in M.S. Outlook.
Back to ESS later, I think - it seems much quicker.

 

That is really strange as that is exactly the opposite to my experiences...with ESS taking some 2 minutes to load a web page in IE whilst with KIS it is almost instantaneous. Having said that it is what I would expect as KIS has been out and stable for a goodly long time whilst this is the 1st beta of ESS...which I am sure will improve as time goes by.

 

Maybe I've been lucky but ESS installed like a dream on my XP system.
Works happily with Prevx1 and BO Clean. Overall memory usage around 30K but no CPU usage apart from when scanning. I love the new interface. Passed Shields Up.
Seems pretty polished for a 1st Beta to me - certainly compared to Online Armor - a fairly advanced Beta which still gives me blue screens/ random freezes etc.
Now I'm gonna play with FD-ISR and see if I can break it...!

 

I second that, like the one in Jetico Firewall, you can see an animation of an arrow, one is going up and one is going down. Also, I don't think it is scanning my incoming mail from G-mail using Forte Agent 3.0 E-mail program, which is in port 995.