Today ESET updated their home security suite – ESET Smart Security for Home Users – to version 5.2.9 – this maintenance release is a FREE upgrade of your ESET protection as long as you have a new license, or renewal license.
Details of the updates in the maintenance release can be found below:
Version 5.2.9
- Enhancement: Added information about needing to switch SSL filtering ON when filtering HTTPs sites in Parental Control setup screen
- Enhancement: Several enhancements within Parental Control Setup and management
- Enhancement: Administrator of Parental Control can choose the role of a Windows Account by entering a person’s age configuring Parental Control
- Enhancement: Information about not filtering Parental Control added to the Home Screen
- Enhancement: Added Statistics of Scanned Files in the Home Screen
- Enhancement: Added more information about running processes reputation from ESET Live Grid
- Support: Able to activate product using proxy server
- Support: SSL False Start in Google Chrome
- Support: SSL scanning in recent versions of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
- Support: Ability to use the activation keys in product to Renew
- Added: Ability to prioritize web page exceptions within Parental Control by Windows user account
- Added: Settings for Removable Media blocking and Antirootkit (Antistealth) are located in the main GUI under Setup
- Fix: Network profile dialog window popping up repeatedly
- Fix: Graphical enhancement fixing shadowing of the pull-down quick menu
- Fix: Issues detecting emails in Windows Live Mail 2011
- Fix: GUI opened in a large window
- Fix: Advanced scanning options are not working in Computer Scan
- Fix: Irrelevant notification bubble is being shown when no action is required
- Fix: Issues with stopping of ESET service during installation
- Fix: Runtime error with HP Protect Tools, causing ESET GUI crash
- Fix: Removable media blocking does not block devices for some Windows Accounts
- Fix: Some pages with certain categories were not categorized properly by Parental Control feature
- Fix: Files are still scanned by Real-time file system protection after disabling it
- Fix: Issues with importing Antispam global lists from ESET Smart Security version 4 to ESET Smart Security version 5
- Fix: ESET GUI crashes under some circumstances while editing ESET Firewall profiles
- Fix: Schedule update task cannot be started from main menu in SysRescue User Interface
- Fix: Crashing of ESET GUI under some circumstances
- Fix: Wrong tooltips within Antispam dialog windows
- Fix: Activated product displays that it is not activated
- Fix: Parental Control still enabled in User Interface after Firewall is disabled
- Fix: IMAPS, POP3S checking of protocols and ports for selected applications does not work correctly
- Fix: Notification window about disabling some type of protection is not displayed if some other protection is already disabled
- Fix: Inconsistent status for updated virus signature database within main program window
- Fix: Scheduled scan and other planned tasks can be started from non-administrator user accounts
- Fix: Issues with management of web page filtering exceptions for Parental Control
- Fix: SSL filtering in Chrome does not work in some circumstances
- Fix: HIPS rule displays “User Rules File Contains Invalid Data”
- Fix: USB HDD freezes system on Windows XP
The newly updated ESET Smart Security download can be found here.