ESET (Nod32) Beta Test Program

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Not my cuppa tea as I prefer other security to blacklists but some may be interested.

If they offered a free 6 or 12 months of the final release I'm sure they would get more takers.

ESET is looking for people to help test ESET Smart Security Public Beta 1 (ESS). It contains the following components:

? The next version of ESET's anti-malware engine (NOD32 v3.0)

? A personal firewall with port stealthing and advanced filtering features

? Antispam filtering with Bayesian filter, whitelisting and blacklisting.

ESS Public Beta 1 runs on Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP (x86), Windows Server 2003 (x86) and Windows Vista (x86). Antispam only works with Microsoft Outlook. Support for other operating systems, processor architectures and mail clients will be added in future test versions.

This beta version is not complete: It does not contain all of the features and functionality of the final, released version and the online help and documentation are not finished. ESS Public Beta 1 is intended for experienced users and should not be installed on computers which perform critical tasks.

Eset beta link

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I'm trying it out, I'll let you all know how it goes!

Okie dokie: First impressions.

The GUI. Wow, they've kicked it up a few notches. It looks *brilliant* compared to the previous version of NOD32. Here's a screen: nod32fc7.jpg

To get to most of the goodies I had to toggle advanced mode, which wasn't an issue at all.

Scanning speed: I have a hefty bit of stuff installed. Counterstrike, Half Life2, Guild Wars, Photoshop, and too many other things to name. It was past my Program Files folder in under two minutes. The scan was complete in just under six minutes.

System resources: Well this isn't really too good. The big thing I knew NOD32 for was how unintensive it was. The kernel was taking 30MB of RAM, and the GUI was taking another 7MB. Compared to Norton? Light as a feather. But then again, who wants to be compared to Norton?

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I actually the current prefer NOD32 GUI, nice plane simple, yet still powerful enough.

I don't like this new VISTA style gui.

Current NOD32 takes only 21.9MB for Kernel and 2.22Mb for Gui.