ESET Smart Security Premium Overview
ESET Smart Security Premium is a comprehensive and advanced security solution designed to provide maximum protection for your digital life with a minimal impact on system performance.
Core Protection
At its core, ESET Smart Security Premium offers proactive detection and cleansing of a wide range of threats, including viruses, spyware, trojans, worms, adware, and rootkits. The software utilizes advanced heuristics and artificial intelligence to identify and mitigate both known and unknown malware, ensuring your system remains safeguarded against emerging threats.
Key Features
Antivirus and Antispyware
- Provides robust protection against viruses, spyware, and other malware through continuous monitoring of your system and real-time updates to the detection engine.
Intelligent Firewall
- Prevents unauthorized access to your computer and protects your personal data by blocking malicious traffic and exploiting attempts.
Banking & Payment Protection
- Offers a secured browser environment specifically for online banking and payment transactions, ensuring all online financial activities are conducted in a trusted and secure setting.
Anti-Theft
- Includes features to help manage and locate lost or stolen devices through a web interface, enhancing security in the event of device loss or theft.
Password Manager
- Securely stores and manages your passwords and personal data, enhancing your online security and convenience.
Secure Data
- Allows you to encrypt data on your computer and USB drives, protecting private and confidential information from misuse.
Network Inspector
- Checks the security of your network, identifying potential vulnerabilities and providing recommendations for improvement.
Parental Control
- Helps protect children from offensive web content by blocking various website categories, ensuring a safer online environment for families.
ESET LiveGrid (Cloud-powered Reputation)
- Utilizes a cloud-powered reputation system to check the reputation of running processes and files, enhancing the software’s threat detection capabilities.
Device Control
- Automatically scans and can block removable media such as USB flash drives, memory cards, and CDs/DVDs based on various attributes, preventing potential threats from external sources.
HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System)
- Offers granular control over system behavior, allowing users to specify rules for the system registry, active processes, and programs to achieve a finely-tuned security posture.
Gamer Mode
- Postpones pop-up windows, updates, and other system-intensive activities to conserve system resources during gaming sessions, ensuring an uninterrupted gaming experience.
ESET Antispam
- Provides robust protection against unwanted and potentially harmful emails, safeguarding your email communication.
Additional Functionality
- Regular Updates: Ensures the software remains up-to-date with the latest threat definitions and program modules, maintaining the highest level of security.
- Support for Network Signatures: Enables fast identification and blocking of malicious traffic, including bots and exploit packs.
- ESET LiveGuard: Capable of discovering and stopping never-before-seen threats while processing information for future detection, ensuring you stay ahead of emerging dangers.
User Interface and Support
ESET Smart Security Premium features a redesigned user interface that simplifies the user experience, supports right-to-left languages, and integrates online help with dynamically updated support content.
Subscription and Compatibility
While new sales of ESET Smart Security Premium have been discontinued, existing users can transition to the ESET HOME Security Premium subscription tier, which includes all the features of ESET Smart Security Premium plus additional enhancements. This solution is compatible with Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS devices.