It also got the Parent Tested Parent Approved seal from PTPA Media. In 2009, CNET conceded ESET Smart Security 4 the CNET Editor's Choice Award under the Internet security suite category.Reviewers communicated that "ESET Smart Security is shockingly light, using around 50MB of RAM when running" and contemplated that "For getting all your security instruments in one box, Smart Security is an effect
ive and all around respected choice." In mid 2013, Maximum PC allowed ESET Smart Security 5 a 6/10 rating and was enlivened with its relative qualities. Reporters communicated that "Things weren't precisely as horrendous as they were with McAfee, and ESET enhanced occupation at blocking sullied downloads and keeping us a long way from diminish destinations", yet completed up with "We had high trusts in ESET, yet we are in the end let around the present year's release." In late 2013, Maximum PC conceded ESET Smart Security 6 a 9/10 rating and was roused with the updates made in adjustment 6. Investigators were unaffected with the UI, communicating that "There's nothing bombastic about ESET's interface. It hasn't been modernized for Windows 8 or touchscreen appears" regardless of the way that they completed "We dinged the program a year back to let two or three horrible controls through, an extraordinary slip for a program that is accumulated twelve straight VB100 gifts from Virus Bulletin in the past two years. It fared much better in our tests this time around." ESET things are attempted and ensured by relationship, for instance, AV-Comparatives (Advanced+, Approved Corporate Product), AV-TEST, Virus Bulletin, ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs (Check mark), Check Virus (Highest Advanced Rank), (VMware Ready) and Microsoft (Windows 8 Certified). ESET set a world-record when it got 100 constant VB100 gifts from Virus Bulletin.