The interface is clean and simple, to the point of minimalist, but covers all the essentials, if you dig around. There are panes covering scan, update, setup and tools. The Tools pane includes a statistics panel, system inspector and a way to burn a rescue disc.
Our scan-rate tests gave a scan rate of 74.4 files/sec, which is a mid-range result, and it examined 120,178 files.
It fingerprints files well, as a repeat scan looked at only 17,377 files and finished in less than two minutes. Its resource footprint is fair, although it took 56 percent longer to copy a 1GB file between drives with a scan running.
According to the German test site AV-Test, ESET has improved its software performance considerably. Mind you, the organisation hasn't tested version 6 yet. Version 5.2 of the software scored 13.0/18.0, a full two points more than version 4.
It improved in all areas, with Performance and Usability clocking up an extra half point each and Repair moving up a full point.
Performance now scores 4.0/6.0, with a full 100 percent detection of older widespread malware, 97.5 percent on recent introductions – slightly above the group average – and 90 percent on zero-day attacks – slightly below.
The Usability score of 5.5/6.0 supports ESEent slowdown of its test machines, against an average of 10 percent, and there were no false positives of any kind during test.
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