ESET Smart Security at discount?

Chris · External Since: Jan 31, 2009 Posts: 2

Hello folks,

I was just wondering if anyone here is aware of a vender or supplier
offering ESET Smart Security licenses at a discount off the published
rates on the Eset website? Or maybe a special promo code that would
generate a discount? Their prices are pretty steep compared with other
solutions and virtually no one is selling the software on E-bay,
unlike the other brands, such as Panda or PC Tools Internet Security.

I downloaded the trial version of Smart Security and it works
wonderfully and does not bog down my resources. So, after using
Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro, Panda, and finally PC Tools, this one
is a winner. However, the price is not a winner. So, that may be
there only thing preventing me from buying it.

My system has 1.5 GB of RAM and PC Tools virtually brought the system
to a half, it was the biggest resource hog of any of them I think. It
may be a great product is you have like 4 gigs of Ram and a newer dual
processor.

Anyway, I hope to hear from someone soon regarding discounts. Thanks
in advance for any leads!

Chris
I

1PW · External Since: Jan 23, 2009 Posts: 12

On 01/31/2009 06:03 PM, Chris sent:
> Hello folks,
>
> I was just wondering if anyone here is aware of a vendor or supplier
> offering ESET Smart Security licenses at a discount off the published
> rates on the ESET website? Or maybe a special promo code that would
> generate a discount? Their prices are pretty steep compared with other
> solutions and virtually no one is selling the software on E-bay,
> unlike the other brands, such as Panda or PC Tools Internet Security.

$59.99USD for a /rental/ is fairly low as "all-in-one" solutions go.

> I downloaded the trial version of Smart Security and it works
> wonderfully
^^^^^^^^^^^

What exactly did it find and/or correct?

and does not bog down my resources.

Unless it solved a malware problem, that few others could, your
superlative is unfounded. Yes - something that isn't a resource hog
/is/ very good.

So, after using
> Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro, Panda, and finally PC Tools, this one
> is a winner.

Please qualify this further.

However, the price is not a winner. So, that may be
> there only thing preventing me from buying it.
>
> My system has 1.5 GB of RAM and PC Tools virtually brought the system
> to a half, it was the biggest resource hog of any of them I think. It
> may be a great product is you have like 4 gigs of Ram and a newer dual
> processor.
>
> Anyway, I hope to hear from someone soon regarding discounts. Thanks
> in advance for any leads!
>
> Chris
> I

Hello Chris:

ESET's NOD32 /is/ well regarded by a few of us (but not all). However,
most of the knowledgeable know not to put all their antimalware
investment in an "all-in-one" solution in hopes of finding an easy way.

Moreover, what you seek, in their individual forms, can be had for free,
or if chosen, life time updates for very little.

Try Googling the newsgroups for the individual antimalware solutions in
the half-dozen or so newsgroups that deal with this. IMHO, your
scrutiny has just begun.

Still, congratulations on your ongoing awareness of Internet danger and
malware. Warm regards to you,

Pete
--
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G. Morgan · External Since: Feb 01, 2009 Posts: 1

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Kayman · External Since: Jan 26, 2009 Posts: 3

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:03:27 -0500, Chris wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I was just wondering if anyone here is aware of a vender or supplier
> offering ESET Smart Security licenses at a discount off the published
> rates on the Eset website? Or maybe a special promo code that would
> generate a discount? Their prices are pretty steep compared with other
> solutions and virtually no one is selling the software on E-bay,
> unlike the other brands, such as Panda or PC Tools Internet Security.
>
> I downloaded the trial version of Smart Security and it works
> wonderfully and does not bog down my resources. So, after using
> Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro, Panda, and finally PC Tools, this one
> is a winner. However, the price is not a winner. So, that may be
> there only thing preventing me from buying it.
>
> My system has 1.5 GB of RAM and PC Tools virtually brought the system
> to a half, it was the biggest resource hog of any of them I think. It
> may be a great product is you have like 4 gigs of Ram and a newer dual
> processor.
>
> Anyway, I hope to hear from someone soon regarding discounts. Thanks
> in advance for any leads!

I'd never lay all my eggs in one basket and steer away from Security
Suites.
Ever considered utilizing good-quality freeware AV/A-S applications and
spend your hard earned dollars for a back-up/imaging program?

Chris · External Since: Jan 31, 2009 Posts: 2

Ok., I'll be honest here. I don't claim to be a real techie. I'm
never even attemped to configure a firewall. ESET made it real easy.
Their automatic settings seemed to work. No annoying pop-ups for
normal day to day browsing, etc. It's been totally silent. The only
way I know it's one is the little icon on the taskbar. As far as the
cost, I would want a 2 year license for 2 PCs, and that would run me
$103.99 on ESET's site, which seems much higher than others, some of
which include licensing for 3 PCs with their regular price.

However, I'll admit I was a tad concerned when I installed the trial
software on an older 733 MHZ computer, which did not have virus
software on it updated since 6 months ago, failed to find any spyware,
malware, etc on it after a full manual scan. However, the computer
still shows no signs of being infected. I would think if ESET was not
good, I would have read more negative reviews about it.

When I installed PC Tools on my PC, it found a whole buch of adware,
spyware, and a couple trojan horses. Seemed like it does its job
well. However, the CPU was taxed heavily and also consuming a ton of
RAM.

As far as the others, Panda was "ok", still consuming a decent amount
of ram and the firewall tempermental. PC-Cillin, used to be great
until about 2007, when it went downhill big time. Mcafee and Norton,
I have not used in awhile, due to much feedback on Amazon.com and
other customer review sites that it uses lots of resources and slows
the PC down.

I'm open to alternatives solutions, if anyone has them.

My first PC is running XP with 1.5 GBs of Ram and a 2.20 ghz
processor. The other computer is running XP with 640 MB of RAM and a
733 MHZ processor.

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:41:01 -0800, 1PW
wrote:

>On 01/31/2009 06:03 PM, Chris sent:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I was just wondering if anyone here is aware of a vendor or supplier
>> offering ESET Smart Security licenses at a discount off the published
>> rates on the ESET website? Or maybe a special promo code that would
>> generate a discount? Their prices are pretty steep compared with other
>> solutions and virtually no one is selling the software on E-bay,
>> unlike the other brands, such as Panda or PC Tools Internet Security.
>
>$59.99USD for a /rental/ is fairly low as "all-in-one" solutions go.
>
>> I downloaded the trial version of Smart Security and it works
>> wonderfully
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>What exactly did it find and/or correct?
>
>and does not bog down my resources.
>
>Unless it solved a malware problem, that few others could, your
>superlative is unfounded. Yes - something that isn't a resource hog
>/is/ very good.
>
>So, after using
>> Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro, Panda, and finally PC Tools, this one
>> is a winner.
>
>Please qualify this further.
>
>However, the price is not a winner. So, that may be
>> there only thing preventing me from buying it.
>>
>> My system has 1.5 GB of RAM and PC Tools virtually brought the system
>> to a half, it was the biggest resource hog of any of them I think. It
>> may be a great product is you have like 4 gigs of Ram and a newer dual
>> processor.
>>
>> Anyway, I hope to hear from someone soon regarding discounts. Thanks
>> in advance for any leads!
>>
>> Chris
>> I
>
>Hello Chris:
>
>ESET's NOD32 /is/ well regarded by a few of us (but not all). However,
>most of the knowledgeable know not to put all their antimalware
>investment in an "all-in-one" solution in hopes of finding an easy way.
>
>Moreover, what you seek, in their individual forms, can be had for free,
>or if chosen, life time updates for very little.
>
>Try Googling the newsgroups for the individual antimalware solutions in
>the half-dozen or so newsgroups that deal with this. IMHO, your
>scrutiny has just begun.
>
>Still, congratulations on your ongoing awareness of Internet danger and
>malware. Warm regards to you,
>
>Pete

Little Charlie · External Since: Feb 01, 2009 Posts: 1

On all our 3 Vista pcs here at home we use Avast Free Home Edition.
http://www.avast.com daily automatic updates, scores high in
detection/cleaning tests and is totally free. Over 2 years with Avast
and no issues. It HAS stopped malware on occasion.

"Chris" wrote in message

> Ok., I'll be honest here. I don't claim to be a real techie. I'm
> never even attemped to configure a firewall. ESET made it real
> easy.
> Their automatic settings seemed to work. No annoying pop-ups for
> normal day to day browsing, etc. It's been totally silent. The
> only
> way I know it's one is the little icon on the taskbar. As far as
> the
> cost, I would want a 2 year license for 2 PCs, and that would run
> me
> $103.99 on ESET's site, which seems much higher than others, some
> of
> which include licensing for 3 PCs with their regular price.
>
> However, I'll admit I was a tad concerned when I installed the
> trial
> software on an older 733 MHZ computer, which did not have virus
> software on it updated since 6 months ago, failed to find any
> spyware,
> malware, etc on it after a full manual scan. However, the computer
> still shows no signs of being infected. I would think if ESET was
> not
> good, I would have read more negative reviews about it.
>
> When I installed PC Tools on my PC, it found a whole buch of
> adware,
> spyware, and a couple trojan horses. Seemed like it does its job
> well. However, the CPU was taxed heavily and also consuming a ton
> of
> RAM.
>
> As far as the others, Panda was "ok", still consuming a decent
> amount
> of ram and the firewall tempermental. PC-Cillin, used to be great
> until about 2007, when it went downhill big time. Mcafee and
> Norton,
> I have not used in awhile, due to much feedback on Amazon.com and
> other customer review sites that it uses lots of resources and
> slows
> the PC down.
>
> I'm open to alternatives solutions, if anyone has them.
>
> My first PC is running XP with 1.5 GBs of Ram and a 2.20 ghz
> processor. The other computer is running XP with 640 MB of RAM and
> a
> 733 MHZ processor.
>
>
>
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:41:01 -0800, 1PW
> wrote:
>
>>On 01/31/2009 06:03 PM, Chris sent:
>>> Hello folks,
>>>
>>> I was just wondering if anyone here is aware of a vendor or
>>> supplier
>>> offering ESET Smart Security licenses at a discount off the
>>> published
>>> rates on the ESET website? Or maybe a special promo code that
>>> would
>>> generate a discount? Their prices are pretty steep compared with
>>> other
>>> solutions and virtually no one is selling the software on E-bay,
>>> unlike the other brands, such as Panda or PC Tools Internet
>>> Security.
>>
>>$59.99USD for a /rental/ is fairly low as "all-in-one" solutions
>>go.
>>
>>> I downloaded the trial version of Smart Security and it works
>>> wonderfully
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>What exactly did it find and/or correct?
>>
>>and does not bog down my resources.
>>
>>Unless it solved a malware problem, that few others could, your
>>superlative is unfounded. Yes - something that isn't a resource
>>hog
>>/is/ very good.
>>
>>So, after using
>>> Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro, Panda, and finally PC Tools, this
>>> one
>>> is a winner.
>>
>>Please qualify this further.
>>
>>However, the price is not a winner. So, that may be
>>> there only thing preventing me from buying it.
>>>
>>> My system has 1.5 GB of RAM and PC Tools virtually brought the
>>> system
>>> to a half, it was the biggest resource hog of any of them I
>>> think. It
>>> may be a great product is you have like 4 gigs of Ram and a newer
>>> dual
>>> processor.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I hope to hear from someone soon regarding discounts.
>>> Thanks
>>> in advance for any leads!
>>>
>>> Chris
>>> I
>>
>>Hello Chris:
>>
>>ESET's NOD32 /is/ well regarded by a few of us (but not all).
>>However,
>>most of the knowledgeable know not to put all their antimalware
>>investment in an "all-in-one" solution in hopes of finding an easy
>>way.
>>
>>Moreover, what you seek, in their individual forms, can be had for
>>free,
>>or if chosen, life time updates for very little.
>>
>>Try Googling the newsgroups for the individual antimalware
>>solutions in
>>the half-dozen or so newsgroups that deal with this. IMHO, your
>>scrutiny has just begun.
>>
>>Still, congratulations on your ongoing awareness of Internet danger
>>and
>>malware. Warm regards to you,
>>
>>Pete
>

1PW · External Since: Jan 23, 2009 Posts: 12

On 02/01/2009 07:05 AM, Chris sent:
> Ok., I'll be honest here. I don't claim to be a real techie. I'm
> never even attemped to configure a firewall. ESET made it real easy.
> Their automatic settings seemed to work. No annoying pop-ups for
> normal day to day browsing, etc. It's been totally silent. The only
> way I know it's one is the little icon on the taskbar. As far as the
> cost, I would want a 2 year license for 2 PCs, and that would run me
> $103.99 on ESET's site, which seems much higher than others, some of
> which include licensing for 3 PCs with their regular price.

I don't want to be the least bit disrespectful or cruel Chris. It seems
if someone made an application that claimed to be a security suite and
remained perpetually quiet while putting an icon in the system tray, and
perhaps only put up a dialog box in two years that said you need to send
in more money, that would keep you content. That same vendor would
spend some of their profits to make sure that their product got
favorable print in a few blogs or publications that claimed to have
their fingers on the pulse of the computer industry.

Again, I don't wish to make you feel insulted or disrespected at all! I
would like you to re-evaluate your methodology. You need not become a
techie. You might need to become a more well informed consumer.

>
> However, I'll admit I was a tad concerned when I installed the trial
> software on an older 733 MHZ computer, which did not have virus
> software on it updated since 6 months ago, failed to find any spyware,
> malware, etc on it after a full manual scan. However, the computer
> still shows no signs of being infected. I would think if ESET was not
> good, I would have read more negative reviews about it.
>
> When I installed PC Tools on my PC, it found a whole buch of adware,
> spyware, and a couple trojan horses. Seemed like it does its job
> well. However, the CPU was taxed heavily and also consuming a ton of
> RAM.
>
> As far as the others, Panda was "ok", still consuming a decent amount
> of ram and the firewall tempermental. PC-Cillin, used to be great
> until about 2007, when it went downhill big time. Mcafee and Norton,
> I have not used in awhile, due to much feedback on Amazon.com and
> other customer review sites that it uses lots of resources and slows
> the PC down.
>
> I'm open to alternatives solutions, if anyone has them.
>
> My first PC is running XP with 1.5 GBs of Ram and a 2.20 ghz
> processor. The other computer is running XP with 640 MB of RAM and a
> 733 MHZ processor.

Wouldn't it be very important, to you, that your antimalware vendor has
their folks working 24/7/365 on the latest infestations and that their
databases be pushed into your waiting PC as soon as they're available,
or at least made available several times per day if necessary?

When pitted against other vendors in their same category (say
antivirus), wouldn't it be good to know that one of the top AV vendors
achieves a detection rate that's three times better /and/ its "missed"
rate is one-tenth that of NOD32V2? Wouldn't it be pleasing to know that
a couple of the best performing AV applications are available as
freeware and are upgradeable? One in particular is not a resource hog.

Wouldn't it be nice to know that your antimalware "rent" payment doesn't
come due again in two years, or ever?

Would it surprise you that your ESET product didn't make it to Consumer
Reports list of security suites if you rely on their judgment? How
would it make you feel knowing that at least two dozen other products
are better at their antivirus tasks than yours?

The data is out there Chris.

Pete
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1PW @?6A62?FEH9:DE=6o2@=]4@> [r4o7t]