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Notational Conventions Think of this as follows: You have a library full of collections of
books. Each of these collections represents a file on your hard
In this handbook, I have used these notational conventions: drive. You take one book from the collection and put some
Italic: Text from the current dialogue you are working with. sticky notes in the book and make it too big to fit back on the
I’ve reviewed ESET in great detail here. For sake of brevity, I’ll The system scanning is both quick and efficient and in, in my
explain the best details in this handbook. opinion, quicker than any other virus program I’ve ever used.
You are shown a simple interface while the system scans your
When you first start the program, you will be presented with files, which is an improvement over many programs which
the simple menu. You can enable the advanced menu by show an elaborate display when checking your computer.
clicking at the bottom of the main menu. The interface for this
program is simple and intuitive with a clean dashboard that
shows you the most recent statistics from the program. From
the main menu, you can see the status of the different modules
of ESET Smart Security. If you are going to use this program, I
highly recommend running all the modules together. This way,
you do not need a separate firewall, anti-spam, or anti-
spyware program running in the background.
Note: the screenshots I will show you are from the business
edition. I will only cover features available in the home edition.
I always like my computer to run a schedule so that tasks are Protection against viruses is great but prevention is even better
taken care of without my intervention. Virus scanning is no and ESET constantly update their virus definitions to ensure
exception to this rule and ESET comes with a built in scheduler that the even the newest viruses are well protected against.
so you don’t have to worry about setting up a schedule tasks Virus updates do not consume unnecessary system resources
via Windows control panel. and do not fail–other antivirus programs I have used have
issues with updating and sometimes need a manual fix.
Real-time Status
The final aspect of ESET I want to cover is the virus radar. While
this may not be useful to you, it’s nice to see that ESET are
monitoring current threats and sharing them with you so you
can keep an eye out for any suspicious activity on your PC.
Resource Usage
Virus checkers are a notoriously bloated and slow your system
down to a halt when I running a scan. Many people who use
ESET hold it high because it uses such low system resources.
I’ve never completely tested this rely on the fact my computer
still runs just fine when the scans are running. For this review, I
decided to run a deep system scan and monitor system
resources. The results of this experiment are shown below
(click to enlarge):
Click the Next button and it will begin cleaning your PC. If it
does not find anything, a pop-up box will notify you of this and
the program will exit and not modify your PC.
Revo will then show you everything it finds and give you the
option to remove the left-over registry keys:
Overall, Revo works really well and it’s a great program, which
helps you keep your computer clean from left-over clutter.
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