ESET Smart Security 4 Public Beta 1 was released last November 2008.  The ESET Smart Security is a security suite combining top-notch anti-virus, firewall and anti-spam modules. Well, on first impression, we like what they did with the user interface - simple, informative and yet responsive.

As usual, there is no problem at the installation part. The installation file can be downloaded from the ESET Beta Program website. Installation file size is around 30mb and it uses around 40mb of disk space. Yes! That is considerably small for a security suite.

ESET Smart Security
Version 4.0.68.0

Next we take a look at some screen shots of the program.

Guess that the next thing you guys want to know is just how much memory does Smart Security 4 Beta uses. Below is the breakdown…

ESET Smart Security 4 Public Beta 1 was installed on a Intel Pentium M processor 740 (1.73Ghz, 533Mhz FSB, 2Mb L2 Cache) with 1.25Gb DDRII RAM on a Windows XP.

MEMORY and CPU USAGE

During idle,

egui.exe - 1.7Mb to 3.3Mb
ekrn.exe - 48.8Mb to 59.7Mb
CPU Usage - 0%

During scanning,

egui.exe - 6.7Mb
ekrn.exe - 49.1Mb to 60Mb
CPU Usage - 5% to 100% but most of the time less than 30%

SCANNING SPEED

Scan target: C:\ drive
No. of scanned objects: 410256
Time taken: 1hr 17min
Mode: Standard Scan

SCANNING INTERFACE

FIREWALL INTERFACE

ESET SysInspector

ESET decided to integrate one of their Windows diagnostic tool into the Smart Security. The tool allows user to take a snapshot of their operating system, logging all sorts of information from running processes, network connections, important registry entries, services, drivers to system information. It helps in a way to provide advanced users with detailed analysis.

Conclusion

Guys! You might want to consider ESET Smart Security 4 as your top 3 security suite choice when it is available in the future. ESET previous awards and reliability are already outstanding and to proove that they are better than the rest, they have made a comparison table.