Traumatic experience with ESET AntiVirus (NOD32)

[dennis00]

Hello, I installed ESET a few days ago.

It turns out my 2GB Outlook e-mail archive of e-mails since 2001 is since the installation filled with lines that it's been scanned. Even old e-mails.

I have now uninstalled ESET and requested a refund. After uninstallation, the ESET spam is still in my e-mail...

I don't consider ESET an anti-spam solution... is really my 2GB archive since 2001 permanently infected with all those ESET lines...??

[Hani]

Probably. You can't do anything about it.

[JamesCherrill]

Its a good thing you keep a curent backup of these essential files. (you did keep a current backup, didn't you?)

[BGM]

Hello, I installed ESET a few days ago.

It turns out my 2GB Outlook e-mail archive of e-mails since 2001 is since the installation filled with lines that it's been scanned. Even old e-mails.

I have now uninstalled ESET and requested a refund. After uninstallation, the ESET spam is still in my e-mail...

I don't consider ESET an anti-spam solution... is really my 2GB archive since 2001 permanently infected with all those ESET lines...??

first thing i do when installing nod32 is to turn off the 'i have scanned your email' crap that it inserts into every sent and received message

harsh, never had it do it to all old emails though.. :(

[Social]

ah man, the trauma sure is serious on this one... o_O

[Fraud OS 11]

NOD also misses some malware. I got infected by something which turned my machine into a spambot, part of a botnet. It was unable to detect it. Finally Kaspersky removed it.

[null_]

I've also had a horrid experience with NOD32, on machines with 4 GB of RAM or more and Windows Vista 64-bit -- say hello to random, unexplainable STOP errors and issues logging in.

[neudera]

Odd, but it's a preference that can be turned off. Always explore the settings before you use and program.

[HawkMan]

The mail scanner is fairly unnecessary anyway, the real time scanner would take care of anything there when it drops in or when you try to open it.

[Dazog]

I've also had a horrid experience with NOD32, on machines with 4 GB of RAM or more and Windows Vista 64-bit -- say hello to random, unexplainable STOP errors and issues logging in.

Considering I have 8 gigs of ram and Vista 64 bit with NO issues, must be your hardware not NOD32

[-KJ]

Why is it even enabled in the first place? It's like free advertisement for them. Is this program free or something?

[Zanaffer]

Considering I have 8 gigs of ram and Vista 64 bit with NO issues, must be your hardware not NOD32

6 gigs. Ditto. Was running Vista 64, now running 7 64. No problems.

[Iscariah]

6 gigs. Ditto. Was running Vista 64, now running 7 64. No problems.

Same thing here, 4 gigs, Vista x64 and now 7 x64: no issues.

[#Michael]

Here's my question...why is this in the review section. It's a rant not a review of the actual program.

[Max Veteran]

Considering I have 8 gigs of ram and Vista 64 bit with NO issues, must be your hardware not NOD32

There was an issue about a year ago when these problems were happening. Afaik it has been resolved now.

[ChrisCanada]

Hello, I installed ESET a few days ago.

It turns out my 2GB Outlook e-mail archive of e-mails since 2001 is since the installation filled with lines that it's been scanned. Even old e-mails.

I have now uninstalled ESET and requested a refund. After uninstallation, the ESET spam is still in my e-mail...

I don't consider ESET an anti-spam solution... is really my 2GB archive since 2001 permanently infected with all those ESET lines...??

Most other anti-virus products do the same thing, and often without an option to stop it. Not sure how to do this on a windows PC, but on linux theirs many text processing utility's that could scan the emails and delete specific lines if you want.

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

Looks like the option to tag messages can be disabled under Advanced Setup. Here's how to do it, step by step.

1. Open the User Interface (filename: EGUI.EXE.
   
2. Press F5 to open the Advanced Setup window.
   
3. In the left navigation pane, go to Antivirus & Antispyware → Email Client Protection.
   
4. In the Email Client Protection pane, set Append tag messages to received and read email: to Never and Append tag messages to sent email: to Never.
   
5. Click on OK to commit the change.
   

That should take care of message tagging issue.

For what it's worth, I'm running ESET Smart Security (ESET NOD32 Antivirus + antispam + firewall) under Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with 12GB of RAM without problem. I am, however, using Qualcomm's sadly-discontinued Eudora mail client, not Outlook or Thunderbird.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky