Eset Smart Security 4

Standard or advanced mode
The interface has been changed and provides us with a few nice surprises. You now have a Standard and Advanced mode, in which under the standard mode the user quickly sees the state of their protection (active and disabled modules), allowing them to launch an antivirus scan, manually update the program, authorize network sharing (visible or invisible to other computers), or even temporarily disable the antivirus/antispyware and firewall.

Details protection state
In the second case, Advanced mode, the administrator has richer menus at their disposal and an additional menu titled Tools. The Protection State menu doesn’t just indicate if the services are working or not. You will have access to all of the system files and network activity with graphical explanations. Network connections are also watched revealing all applications sending and receiving in real time.

More options for administrators
Generally all of the sections have been better developed in advanced mode. The antivirus analysis is more intelligent, with it being customizable to provide more detail. In the configuration options, you can stop or start any of the services (protection of web access, blocking unwanted mail, document protection…). And the tool box that we will look at later provides you with a lot of information (log files, quarantine, scheduler, SysInspector, SysRescue…)

Very advanced configuration? Still via the F5 key!
As well as the menus that appear to the top right of the security suite window (User interface, Configuration, tools, help) you still have access to the ultra-advanced menu with the use of the keyboards F5 key. This provides access to the core of Eset Smart Security 4, allowing you to configure it as you see fit.

For example, by going to the user interface tree you can lighten the application by disabling the graphical user interface, enable or disable different effect types (animated controls that are faster or slower), protect the configuration settings with a password, and authorize remote administration…