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That's very true.  Like the "broken ESET" I have, it does completely nothing at all. But IE is somewhat safer than other browsers am I correct? Like when you do banking for example…

Locutus said:

How exactly is IE safer?

And plus, that was Joji with the broekn ESET.

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All the ESETs in the school are "not working very well"… let's just say. It detects less than Malwarebytes'. Ashraf just told me how I used broken with ESET was offensive… so I'm not going to use it… even though I don't get how it's even offensive. It just doesn't do anything at all! > < 99% of the stuff detected by Malwarebytes' can not be detected by ESET at all. That's why the ESET they provided is rubbish in my case. And that's the 2nd reason why many people experiencing that, installed a secound AV or suppement AV on to their system; but mostly supplement, because we want to save space and we don't want to let it interfere with the main AV. Hopefully they change it to MSE or something much "less rubbish" than ESET we're using. I just don't get it. ESET comes with anti-malware does it? Then how come it can't detect things while Malwarebytes' and other AVs I have can?
 

…and isn't IE kinda safe? As to other browsers like say Chrome or Opera… I'm not completely sure. Perhaps I'm wrong?

@Karen

Whoa whoa whoa… slow it down there. I never said anything about cracking it open to make the heuristic levels or settings higher in order to make that thing work. I'm just saying, it doesn't detect anything. Either they didn't check if it worked properly, or they just bought the 400+ copies of the business edition just because ESET is known to have a good rep,  for us students. Yes, they do have the right to install what they want, but haven't they tested it or knew if it detects anything at all? When I received trojans ones (those that opens up fake ads on IE all the time), I scanned it with their ESET, and it found nothing at all. Malwarebytes'? Found them all. Deleted them all, and my laptop is fixed. Get the point?

 

But of coarse, I do understand, we have more privileges because we have to well… do work go surfing, all kinds of things. But a business computer is different because all your'e doing is one specific job, it's not like a personal computer. But we "bought" the laptop, so that's why we have more privileges. It's hard to explain…

 

But like  I said again, if they change it to MSE, then atleast does something that ESET they provided can't. MhM…

@GrantWhy

ESET Nod32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition
Recently re-imaged since they had to put in some new programs such as PhotoShop Elements 8.  (They removed 5 and 7 off our systems, so awesome!) 
Virus Signature 5576 (20100713)

I can't check its heuristic settings or how high its detection rates are since it's all locked by an admin pass. Poohey. I'm just hoping they'd do something about it to make ESET detect "more" and "quarantine more" viruses than before; just like Malwarebytes'.

 

Oh and Grantwhy, there are 2 kinds of AV. They are the regular AVs and the supplement AV. Supplement AV do not offect the main AV and it acts like a "sidekick". The main AV does all the "big brother work" and has more features and security than the supplement. Something like that… but in my case, the Malwaresbytes' is the big brother why the ESET is the little brother. LoL…

 

Just to let you know… BitDefender, Comodo, and TrendMicro are a big no no. Never good. Read this detailed article by MaximumPC: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/kill?page=0,1

Read it and find out why those 3 paid AVs aren't as good as the rest. But again, some AVs such as Panda or AVG may not be appealing to others, but some people that I talked to said it's preferable over other AVs such as Malwarebytes. Odd eh?

calebstein said:

For a good free AV, try ClamAV for Windows, if you are using Windows.

http://clamav.org/

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It's ok I guess. But remember, ClamAV is a cloud based AV program. It's not like !avast where they use the traditional method of protecting your system.