Just what the Dr. ordered!

Pros: We have 3 computers in our home. A new Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop, an Dell Inspiron D530 Desktop and a 15" HP laptop that we travel with. The wifes in California with a sick mother so thats where the new Dell was delivered to. I suggested ESET Smart Security for it because it has Vista Ultimate. She bought a 3 user license but the wrong one, It was for NOD32, not the suite. She overnighted me the disks so I could install Vista Ultimate on the Dell desktop (hating Vista Home Premium). Went to install the new suite only to se the mistake. I called and instructed her to upgrade to the suite, now!

In the meantime I installed Kaspersky on the new system. Today I attempted a scan. After 2 hours, it was 15% complete. Noy at all acceptable. She forwarded me the email from ESET with the new license. Angry, I killed Kaspersky with it's built in uninstaller. I installed ESET and things are all good now. Full scan completed in an hour. Thats, 40 Gb on the internal drive & 145 Gb on the external drive.

It has a vastly improved GUI, it's light on resources and at AV comparatives today, I downloaded an AC comparative survey where I found ESET to be the highest one in customer satisfaction and recommendations. like the others, I can , without reservation recommend this product to both Vista and XP users.

Cons: Expensive, no parental controls or data theft protection. Firewall could use a few more settings. Other then those, nothing further.

Posted: 22-May-2008 07:05:42 PM

Simple, safe and free!

Pros: This program works fine on a "Vista 32 bit OS", regardless that it's not shown here. Some on line research and I found that out. It's safe and simple to use. It asks after uninstall about deleting folders. I found that other uninstallers can cause more harm then good because they delete shared registry keys and dll's, thinking they are cleaning up after the uninstall. Never with this program.

Cons: None so far.

Posted: 23-Jan-2008 12:46:21 PM